About The Role
Kickstart your career at Gleeds!
We’re looking to bring onboard our class of 2025 Graduate Building Surveyors, at our Glasgow offices, so if you’re interested in working for a business that is internationally renowned, will support your learning & development and will give you the opportunity to get fully qualified, then the Gleeds Graduate Programme is for you.
At Gleeds, we believe in creating long-term relationships with not only our clients, but our people as well. We have a proven track record of supporting our Graduates as they grow, helping them become the best version of themselves both professionally and personally – creating a workplace that is efficient, inclusive, and fun to be a part of.
What does the Gleeds Graduate Programme offer you?
As a Graduate Building Surveyor, you will have unlimited access to our experts, all of whom have years of experience in their respective fields. We’re on the lookout for ambitious, driven Graduates that can embody the value of Gleeds: ‘
Our will provide you with on-the-job learning, mentorship, professional reviews, a dedicated development team and all the tools and support needed to be successful in your career!
You will be fully supported on your path to becoming fully-accredited – we cover the costs, help with the paperwork, and make sure it is as easy as possible for you to achieve your goals.
As a Graduate you will:
1. Assist Building Surveyors in the delivery of building surveying services, including surveys, dilapidation advice, party wall advice, and construction projects for new builds, renovations and maintenance works – from feasibility through to design, contract administration to handover and post completion reviews.
2. Assisting Building Surveyors with the preparation of:
3. Feasibility studies
4. Cost plans
5. Submissions for planning and building regulation approvals
6. Tender documentation and managing the tender process, including designing tender marking schemes.
7. Assisting building surveyors with:
8. Evaluating and reporting on tenders
9. Administration of construction contracts
10. Undertaking surveys including condition surveys, DDA, Fire Risk Assessments, Schedules of Condition and Acquisition Surveys.
11. Preparing reports for customers
12. Undertaking party wall surveyor duties
13. Providing dilapidations advice and delivering dilapidations assessments and negotiating with other parties
14. Undertaking quality monitoring roles of major construction projects.
15. Successfully complete the Gleeds internal APC preparation programme; and self-development training in readiness for attaining Chartered status (RICS)
16. Ensuring that all quantitative and financial information has been independently checked before issue, including maintaining evidence of independent checks.
About You
What you will need:
17. You would have graduated or will be receiving your degree qualification before August 2025
18. You will have the right to live and work in the UK.
19. Clear and effective communication skills - both oral and written.
20. Good organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changes.
21. Good ICT skills, with an elevated level of ability in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
22. Lively and enthusiastic, but conscientious and precise.
23. Outgoing and people-orientated, with a strong ability to work as part of a team.