Associate Director/ Director Building Surveyor - TDD

at  Arcadis

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.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• A clear thinking person demonstrating attention to detail who is well organised and can operate independently under a broad direction.
• Excellent technical ability.
• Multi-discipline experience.
• A team player who can develop and maintain excellent relationships and gain the confidence of other professionals both within the Company and outside.
• A broad thinker who can take a global view and has an inherent ability to deliver successfully.
• Able to manage own tasks from inception through to completion.
• Excellent project management skills particularly in relation to commission management.
• Ability to motivate team, drive quality and deliver successful outcome.
• Ability to manage project risk.
• Ability to constructively (and diplomatically) critique reports by others.
• Ability to triage and focus on key issues during a transaction.
• Manage client expectations.
• Manage team to meet delivery deadlines.
• Manage quality standards to ensure high quality output.
• Understand the transaction process including requirements of funders.
• Understanding of both technical and legislative requirements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Innovative and self-motivated.
• Commercially aware and financially astute.
• Ability to provide good concise commercial advice
• Provision of concise and commercial advice to our clients.
• Represent the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients forming a strong working relationship in true partnership
• Manage client expectations
• Provide guidance to junior team members
  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. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

You will be expected to be technically excellent and have a broad range and experience of commercial surveying including Technical Due Diligence (TDD), Condition Surveys and Contract Administration / Project Management, Dilapidations and Party Wall Matters. Additionally, you should be able to commission manage both single and multiple asset instructions.
The job will involve a mixed and varied workload with often the need to balance a number of different instructions simultaneously.
You will largely focus on service delivery, often working as part of a larger commission team and supporting to achieve exceptional outcomes for our clients. You should be confident in dealing direct with the client.
You will be required to manage your time effectively to meet deadlines and ensuring time expended aligns with the cost forecast to ensure profitability of instructions, (financial performance responsibility).

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• The key focus of our TDD advice and reporting is to identify key risks, the severity and quantification of these risks, along with recommendations for mitigation. Our advice needs to ensure that our clients achieve maximum value from their built assets with a clear understanding of risk. The role includes predominantly Technical Due Diligence along with some Project Management/Contract Admin, Dilapidations and occasionally Party Wall services across a range of building types although largely commercial.
• The position includes a relatively high level of responsibility and accountability with an opportunity to develop managerial as well as technical knowledge and skills, and to progress within a successful and growing specialist team.
• To manage risk in service delivery and contribute to service delivery improvement initiatives.
• To demonstrate organic revenue growth and implementation of the business plan in terms of the commercial building surveying offering
• To manage and undertake professional technical consultancy commissions including Technical Due Diligence, dilapidations, condition surveys and infrequently party wall work.
• To effectively communicate ensuring all information is available for the successful implementation and completion of projects.
• To liaise with the Project Managers and Team Leaders to ensure efficient financial control resulting in a cost effective service.
• To represent the company in a professional and diligent manner.
• To ensure the Sector Director has quantified information on the progress of each contract on a regular basis
• To support with mentoring and supervising our junior building surveyors