Heritage Building Surveyor / Architect
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The Historic Building Advisory Service is an established niche Chartered Surveying and historic building consultancy based near Salisbury working across the UK and sometimes beyond. We provide professional surveying and heritage consultancy services tailored to meet the requirements of clients with a diverse range of historic buildings, structures and landscapes.
The role involves the delivery of professional advice and assistance on all aspects of the conservation, repair, alteration and adaptation to buildings, structures and landscapes from Roman remains, medieval barns, through Georgian houses to Art-Deco flats and Second World War pillboxes. This includes condition and other surveys, heritage impact and design statements, as well as designing, specifying and overseeing works from concept stage, through the planning and regulatory process, to completion of the project.
You will be working within in a commercial practise as part of a small team where you will be expected to control and manage your own work load for a wide range of clients with often eclectic projects for which there is rarely a standard response. For this you will need to be adaptive in your thinking while ensuring you meet the client’s brief, professional and conservation standards as well as within time frames and budgets.
To support you in this role we will provide on-going professional training and development.
If you have experience of working with or an enthusiasm for historic buildings and structures and are looking for a varied, professionally rewarding, sometimes demanding and challenging job, then we would like to hear from you.
The job includes, but not limited to:
· Liaison with clients to understand and develop their requirements
· Analysis and pathology of historic buildings
· Various types of building survey
· Report writing
· Design and intervention of new and repair work in an historic built environment
· Specification preparation
· Developing and handling planning and building regulation applications
· Working closely with other members of the team, clients and contractors
· Contract administration, tendering and oversight of work on site
The Person Should Have
· Experience as a building surveyor, architect or an architectural technician
· Working in a commercial historic building / conservation environment
· Good working knowledge of building construction – modern and historic
· An understanding of the UK planning legislation and Building Regulations
· Ability to develop a good professional working relationships with clients
· RICS, RIBA, CIOB, IHBC
· Competent computer skills, Word, Excel, etc Working knowledge of CAD desirable
· Ability to self manage workload
· Good verbal communication skills
· A current full UK driving licence
Job Type: Full Time, Part Time considered
Salary: negotiable from £40,000 pa
Applications: email your CV with supporting letter to admin@historicbuilding.co.uk
Closing date: we consider applications as they are received
www.historicbuilding.com