Surveyor

Title: Surveyor

Location: Edinburgh

Renumeration: £36,500- £42,500 per annum basic plus full package

Capstone Recruitment are an independent, market leading property consultancy. They are headquartered in London with offices in Scotland and Manchester. Their work encompasses planning and development, property management, specialist valuations and transactions across the United Kingdom.

They are a partnership and the people who run the business are empowered to create their own teams to exceed client's requests. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled them to develop an exceptional business that has spanned nearly a century.

ROLE OVERVIEW

• To onboard and carry out due diligence of existing and new properties into and within the GPA portfolio.
• Visit sites within the portfolio to carry out both an external and internal inspection of the premises.
• To review, record and provide recommendations on lease management, L&T services, client service delivery and reporting requirements to ensure that we are providing a superior level of service and delivering our clients vision for its office portfolio.
• To have ownership of critical dates for reporting to the client and support the onboarding lead in flagging risks and opportunities to the Client
• Ensure excellence in the management of the portfolio and full compliance with the agreed KPIs.
• To provide a service that supports efficient upscaling, value for money, good practice and that health and safety and risk management are adhered to
• To carry out detailed due diligence and on boarding of new portfolios and implement any support the implementation of new EM strategies
• Routine liaison / correspondence with the client, facilities managers, solicitors, tenants, landlords, internal service lines and regional office together with third party advisers where appropriate.
• Monitor the existing procedures and amend/update as and when necessary.
• Ensure all statutory compliance and requirements are met.
• Providing advice on project delivery as appropriate and provision of additional services as required.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports and strategy documents as required by clients
• Ensure lease events are diarised and reported to clients and their instructions acted upon.
• Support and manage the procurement of service contracts either at centre or portfolio level, as required, in consultation with Centre Management teams and BE teams appropriate
  To provide specialist support to delivery teams in meeting their deadlines including the preparation of reports and recommendations.
• Assist in the preparation, control and management of the estate budget and project holding costs
• Provide any support necessary to ensure that all on site contracts are agreed and signed.
• To provide any necessary support to other team members as reasonably requested
  
  

ESSENTIAL

· Experience in onboarding, due diligence and writing reports.

· Self-motivated, ability to deliver set objectives to tight timescales

· Strong attention to detail

· Committed and organised

· Lease management, tenant applications and service charge management

· Health & Safety awareness

· Working knowledge of Property Management Software (Preferably Horizon)

· Structured client reporting

· Knowledge and understanding of RICS Service Charge Code

DESIRABLE

· Working within the public sector

· Office experience and knowledge.

· Clean driving licence