Building Surveyor - Housing and Homelessness Waverley Court Salary: £46,023 - £54,476 Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks Building Surveyors - High Rise Management & Investment (July 2025) We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in the delivery of a number of multi-million-pound investment programmes to the high-rise blocks across the city as part of a planned 15-year investment strategy. The successful applicant will deliver a full range of building surveying and contract management services to the 50 Council high-rise blocks, encompassing a range of specialised and innovative construction methods, as part of the Whole House Retrofit Strategy. This role is integral to ensuring long-term sustainability and enhancement of the quality of our high-rise buildings, the homes within and the standard of living for our residents. You will have the opportunity to work with external multi-disciplinary design teams and contractors on large scale retrofit and upgrade projects across the Council's high-rise estate. We currently have 5 design commissions at various RIBA design stages covering 14 high rise blocks with another five additional blocks scheduled for design of full fabric upgrade this year with a budget of around £250m. We also have a live £60m fire improvement programme covering 30 high rise blocks which is one of the most ambitious domestic fire safety programmes in the UK. Further large-scale mechanical and electrical improvement programmes planned to commence early design in the next year. We are looking for candidates who are chartered or who are senior/associate and who have strong communication skills and experience of running live projects through to completion with a good understanding of project management and contract administration. If you enjoy new opportunities and are interested in working on a range of large and complex major infrastructure programmes promoting best practice in retrofit and health and safety compliance. We are an open-minded, forward thinking, solutions- based team who lead in demonstrating our behaviours - respect, integrity and flexibility. If you see yourself in this, then we are keen to speak to you. You can view an example of the types of projects we are delivering on our external">https://www.collectivearchitecture.co.uk/projects/cables-wynd-house-lin… contractor website. More information about our investment programme, and our ongoing projects, can be found on">https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/multi-storey-blocks/multi-storey-blocks-1"… our website. If you have any questions or want to find out more about the role, please contact Graeme.reid@edinburgh.gov.uk. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation. As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working. You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" ; target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working. Follow us on X at @edincounciljobs View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/37506/surveyor-housing-jd&q… ; target="_blank">Building Surveyor job description ">https://counter.adcourier.com/SmFjb2IuSG9iYmlzLjc1MzA5LjEzNTMyQGNpdHlvZ… ;