Senior Building Surveyor
We are looking for an ambitious Senior Building Surveyor in our Southampton office
Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Senior Building Surveyor to join Savills' growing Building & Project Consultancy team in Southampton. Working with a diverse client base that includes landlords, occupiers, investors and developers, you will take a leading role in delivering a broad range of professional building surveying and project consultancy services across the commercial property sector.
As a trusted adviser, you'll combine strong technical expertise with commercial thinking to deliver tailored solutions, manage complex projects, and build long-term client relationships. From contract administration and technical due diligence to dilapidations, development monitoring and major refurbishment projects, you'll enjoy exposure to a varied and high-profile workload that will challenge and develop your skills.
Beyond project delivery, you'll play a key role in helping grow the Southampton team, identifying new business opportunities, supporting client development initiatives and mentoring junior colleagues. This role offers the chance to make a genuine impact within a collaborative and highly respected consultancy, while benefiting from clear career progression, professional development opportunities, and the support of one of the world's leading property advisors.
This role is responsible for providing high-quality administrative, operational, and client support to ensure the smooth delivery of services across the business. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external stakeholders, the successful candidate will coordinate day-to-day activities, manage processes, maintain accurate records, and contribute to the achievement of team objectives. The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. The position offers the opportunity to build strong stakeholder relationships, support business growth, and contribute to delivering an exceptional client experience aligned with Savills' professional standards and values.
For an experienced Building Surveyor looking to take the next step in their career, this is an opportunity to join a people-focused business where expertise is valued, ambition is rewarded, and success is achieved together.
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What we offer you:
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
The Southern Building and Project Consultancy team is primarily based in Southampton and is made up of 10 staff members. They are a collaborative team of Directors, Associate Directors , Associates, Surveyors, Graduates and Apprentices, working across a broad range of building surveying and project consultancy instructions for landlords , occupiers and investment clients.
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area
- Professional & Financial Services
- Locations
- Southampton
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
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.