Graduate / Building Surveyor
Join Savills to advance your surveying career, delivering a diverse range of commercial and residential instructions within a leading, supportive and highly respected property consultancy.
Role Overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Graduate or newly qualified Building Surveyor to join our market leading team in Southampton.
This role offers the opportunity to support a wide range of property and construction instructions, including contract administration, planned maintenance, due diligence, dilapidations, development monitoring, reinstatement cost assessments, condition surveys, and party wall matters, working under the guidance of senior colleagues.
We provide excellent training, mentoring, and structured professional development with APC support (if required), alongside exposure to diverse commercial and residential projects within a supportive team environment.
We are seeking a motivated individual keen to develop technical expertise, demonstrate our values, and contribute positively to the continued growth and reputation of our Southampton team through a professional, client-focused approach.
This is a varied and exciting role, which offers significant opportunity for career progression.
Job Description - Graduate / Building Surveyor
What we offer you:
Career and Professional Development
25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
Life Assurance
Private Medical Scheme
Virtual GP
Global Mobility Scheme
Rewards Platform
Company Pension Scheme
Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave
Find out more about Savills offer
Team Overview
We are a proactive team of building surveyors and project managers, consisting of four Directors, three Associate Directors, two Associates, one Senior Chartered Surveyor and two Apprentice Building Surveyors as well as one Team Administrator.
The team has a broad range of clients, landlord and occupiers, and work on a variety of fast paced and interesting instructions across all sectors.
This role does not meet the salary criteria for skilled worker visa sponsorship(click link to check exemptions).
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Recruitment agencies
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- Business area
- Professional & Financial Services
- Role
- Building Surveying
- Locations
- Southampton
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role is office based
- Salary
- Competitive
Southampton
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
About Savills
Over 42,000 people work for us in more than 70 countries all over the world. This breadth of global coverage, combined with specialist services and market insight, means we'll always have an expert who is local to you.
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