Senior Building Surveyor

Remote (England-based) | UK-Wide Travel Required

Salary £49,676

Help create homes that change lives.

Are you an experienced Building Surveyor looking for a role where your expertise makes a genuine difference?

Join Leonard Cheshire and play a key role in maintaining and developing environments that enable disabled people to live as independently as possible. This is more than property management—it's about creating safe, high-quality homes and care environments that support people to thrive.

About the Role

As a Senior Building Surveyor, you'll manage your own portfolio of properties across England, including domestic and healthcare settings. You'll balance hands-on surveying and inspection work with the strategic delivery of maintenance, compliance, and capital projects.

What You'll Be Doing

With significant autonomy and variety in your day-to-day work, you'll:

✅ Conduct building surveys and pathology inspections across domestic and healthcare properties

✅ Diagnose building defects and produce detailed reports

✅ Prepare and manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules and budgets

✅ Project manage capital works projects from inception through to completion

✅ Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, with particular focus on fire safety and building compliance

✅ Work closely with Maintenance Coordinators and Service Managers to deliver effective maintenance solutions

✅ Manage contractor performance and quality standards

✅ Sign off completed works on-site

✅ Build strong relationships with contractors and key stakeholders

✅ Provide regular progress updates on projects and maintenance activities

What We're Looking For

Must have

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a Building Surveying role
• Experience managing multiple projects across social housing, social care, healthcare, or similar environments
• Knowledge of building regulations, statutory and healthcare sector-specific compliance, health & safety, and CDM regulations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong IT skills, comfortable working across multiple digital platforms including Excel and document management systems
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel extensively throughout the UK, including overnight stays

Why Join Leonard Cheshire?

Alongside the opportunity to influence and improve a national property portfolio, you'll benefit from:

• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Competitive life assurance cover & health cash plan
• Support for professional qualifications and career development
• Leadership development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working arrangements where possible

About Leonard Cheshire

For more than 75 years, Leonard Cheshire has been supporting disabled people to live, learn, and work as independently as possible. We are one of the UK's most respected providers of care and supported living services.

Our values guide everything we do:

Positive – Warm, empathetic, and always striving to improve

Proud – Determined, passionate, and committed to our beliefs

Pioneering – Creative, innovative, and forward-thinking

Diversity & Inclusion

Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from disabled people and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals. Successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks and satisfactory references.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Ready to make a difference?

Apply today and use your building surveying expertise to help create safe, accessible environments where people can live independently and with dignity.