Building Surveyor - Assistant / Newly qualified Embedded Estate & Trad

  • EC Recruitment Group
  • Oct 16, 2025
Full time Construction Building Surveyor/Senior/Associate Property

Job Description

Building Surveyor Embedded Estate & Traditional Consultancy Mix
Location: City of London

Join a boutique consultancy delivering a rare blend of retained client-side estate work and traditional surveying instructions. This role offers variety, autonomy, and strong project ownership within a quality-driven, highly respected practice.

About the Role


This is a dual-track position, ideally suited to a building surveyor who enjoys balancing structured project delivery with hands-on professional work. You ll split your time equally between:

Client-Side Estate Projects (c.50%)

  • Delivering external decorations, planned maintenance, and life-cycle projects on commercial, retail and residential buildings for one of the London 'Great Estates'

  • Acting as embedded surveyor for a prestigious estate client

  • Carrying out site inspections, managing contractors, and overseeing project quality

  • Liaising directly with the client and reporting progress to the Director

Traditional Consultancy Surveying (c.50%)

  • Conducting pre-acquisition surveys and defect analyses

  • Preparing schedules of condition and dilapidations reports

  • Supporting party wall instructions and contract administration

  • Managing diverse commercial and residential instructions across London

About You
You ll need:

  • At least 12 months experience in a building surveying role

  • Strong professional and project-based technical knowledge

  • Excellent client-facing presence and communication skills

  • Ability to work independently and manage your own diary

  • Comfortable working full-time from the office and attending site regularly

Ideally, you ll also have:

  • Chartered MRICS status or be on the APC pathway (support provided)

  • Experience with estate or block portfolio surveying

  • Knowledge of leasehold property and traditional construction

Why Apply?

  • Meaningful mix of retained and consultancy clients

  • Early responsibility and strong project variety

  • Mentorship and full APC support (100% pass first time record)

  • Clear career development path

  • Structured hours and a supportive team culture

Understandably, you will not have all of the skills required, but they value people with a willingness to learn and a good work ethic, that's the main requirement!

Click Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation with Andrew Pearson at EC Property Recruitment. My contact number is (phone number removed) and you can find all my details on LinkedIn.