Arcadis Principal Level Chartered Building Surveyor
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Overview
We are thrilled to announce an exceptional opportunity for a Principal Level Chartered Building Surveyor to become part of our well‑established L&I Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying team. The position primarily involves handling transaction‑based assignments within the UK, focusing on technical advisory services while allowing room for unique skills and career aspirations.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical advisory services and deliver high‑quality Technical Due Diligence (TDD) reports, identifying key risks, assessing severity, quantifying impacts and recommending mitigation actions.
* Manage, commission and deliver a range of professional technical consultancy projects, including TDD, condition surveys and related services.
* Lead service delivery, manage risks, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and produce organic revenue growth to support the business plan for the commercial building surveying offering.
* Communicate effectively with clients, Project Managers and Team Leaders to ensure all necessary information is available and financial controls are maintained.
* Represent Arcadis professionally and act as a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders.
* Provide sector directors with quantifiable progress updates on each contract regularly.
* Mentor and develop junior building surveyors through supervision and knowledge sharing.
Leadership & Professional Growth
The role carries a high level of responsibility and accountability, offering opportunities to develop managerial and technical expertise and a clear path for career progression within a successful and expanding specialist team.
Qualifications & Experience
* Degree and MRICS qualified with post‑qualification experience (PQE).
* Strong technical expertise in commercial surveying, especially Technical Due Diligence.
* Capacity to manage and commission assignments effectively.
* Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
* Detail‑oriented, organized, proactive, flexible and capable of managing priorities while maintaining confidentiality.
* Innovative, self‑motivated, commercially aware and demonstrates integrity, honesty and a strong personal impact.
Additional Responsibilities
* Provide concise and commercially insightful advice to clients.
* Support the TDD team in project and assignment delivery for exceptional outcomes.
* Develop and maintain strong client relationships, manage expectations, ensure timely and accurate work outputs.
* Guide junior team members and work effectively within a team.
Personal Qualities
Presentable, articulate and capable of building and maintaining relationships both within and outside the company.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Senior Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
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