Principal Building Surveyor

Arcadis

The Role

Overview

Senior Chartered Building Surveyor delivering technical due diligence & consultancy

Key Responsibilities

  • project delivery
  • financial control
  • risk management
  • client advice
  • client relations
  • team mentoring

Tasks

-Guide junior team members and work effectively within a team. -Provide concise and commercially insightful advice to clients. -Collaborate with Project Managers and Team Leaders to maintain efficient financial control and deliver a cost-effective service. -Support the TDD team in project and assignment delivery for exceptional outcomes. -Drive organic revenue growth and support the delivery of the business plan for the commercial building surveying offering. -Develop and maintain strong client relationships, manage expectations, and ensure timely, accurate work outputs. -Responsibilities: Provide concise and commercially insightful advice to clients. Support the TDD team in project and assignment delivery for exceptional outcomes. Develop and maintain strong client relationships, manage expectations, and ensure timely, accurate work outputs. Represent the company professionally, fostering client partnerships. Guide junior team members and work effectively within a team. -Effectively communicate to ensure all necessary information is available for the successful execution and completion of projects. -Manage risks in service delivery and contribute to continuous service improvement initiatives. -Represent the company professionally, fostering client partnerships.

Requirements

  • detail‑oriented
  • independent
  • global
  • proactive
  • confidential
  • communication

What You Bring

-Skills and Attributes: Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of independent operation. Multi-disciplinary experience with a global perspective. Proactive, flexible, and able to manage priorities while maintaining confidentiality. Demonstrates integrity, honesty, and a strong personal impact. Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Innovative, self-motivated, and commercially aware. -Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of independent operation. -Personal Qualities: Presentable, articulate, and capable of building and maintaining relationships both within and outside the company. -Multi-disciplinary experience with a global perspective. -Proactive, flexible, and able to manage priorities while maintaining confidentiality. -Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

The Company

About Arcadis

-Evolved into a global design, engineering and consultancy powerhouse. -Excels in major infrastructure, water management, urban building, transport and industrial manufacturing projects worldwide. -Recent standout assignments include flood defences in New York, the Sydney Metro, and sustainable legacy planning for the Paris Olympics. -Structured around core business areas—Places, Mobility, Resilience and Intelligence—backed by digital centres of excellence. -Notable for blending data-driven tools with traditional consulting to optimise asset lifecycles and smart infrastructure.

Sector Specialisms

Infrastructure

Water

Environment

Buildings

Transport

Utilities