Apprentice Building Surveyor

Portsmouth City Council

Hampshire, PO1 2AL

Closes in 26 days (Friday 17 January at 11:59pm)

Posted on 5 December 2024


Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our repairs and maintenance teams who aspires to be a Chartered Building Surveyor. Candidates must be resilient, enthusiastic, good communicators, have excellent attention to detail and be keen to develop their building surveying skills.

Annual wage
£25,652 a year

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Training course
Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Friday 28 February

Duration

5 years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • At the start of your apprenticeship programme you will be trained to undertake energy performance certificate surveys and you will be undertaking a number of stock condition surveys in order to improve your knowledge of surveying, building types and day to day repair issues.
  • As you develop you will be given more responsibility and progress to undertaking building condition surveys as well as inspecting and auditing day to day repair works. Once you are ready you will be allocated your own large-scale refurbishment and conversion projects that you will lead and be responsible for from inception to completion.
  • This will involve the initial evaluation, surveys, developing the design and specifications, contractor procurement and acting as contractor administrator for the works on site.

Where you’ll work

Civic Offices

Guildhall Square

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO1 2AL

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

Your training course

Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents
  • Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
  • Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
  • Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
  • Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
  • Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
  • Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
  • Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
  • Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
  • Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
  • Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
  • Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
  • Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
  • Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
  • Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
  • Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
  • Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
  • Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
  • Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
  • Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.

Your training plan

  • Training will take place at the University of Portsmouth campus
  • Working towards Level 6 Chartered surveyor (degree) apprenticeship standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

A Level in:

  • A Level or equivalent (grade BBC)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • IT skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Patience

About this company

Portsmouth City Council is the local authority of the city of Portsmouth, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

  • Upon successfully completing your apprenticeship there are excellent opportunities within PCC for progression into a Building Surveyor role. We offer a competitive salary and provide 26 days annual leave in addition to public holidays, provide flexible working arrangements and the option to join the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000290690.

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Closes in 26 days (Friday 17 January at 11:59pm)

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