Apprentice Building Surveyor
LAMBERT SMITH HAMPTON GROUP LTD
Milton Keynes, MK9 1EJ
Closes on Friday 31 January
Posted on 19 December 2024
Contents
Summary
Lambert Smith Hampton are looking for an apprentice building surveyor to join their busy building consultancy team in Milton Keynes. This is a great opportunity to complete a degree in building surveying whilst training to become a qualified building surveyor.
- Annual wage
- Competitive
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 09.00-17.30. Occasionally you may be required to start earlier or finish later.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Saturday 1 March
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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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
- Shadowing chartered building surveyors
- Providing support on instructions to senior surveyors within the Building Consultancy team on undertaking core building surveying duties including project management, design and contract administration, dilapidations, building pathology, technical due diligence, condition surveys, party wall and reinstatement cost assessments
- Assisting with the drafting of minutes, schedules and reports
- Preparing design and contract documentation.
- Measuring and costing building works, under training and supervision of senior staff
- Attending site and taking notes and photographs and generally assisting on instructions
- Liaising (where appropriate) with other LSH departments and divisions
- Representing LSH and the full range of property related services available to our clients
- Data entry
- General office admin duties
- Attending training and continuous professional development (CPD) events where required to support your learning
Where you’ll work
Office K1 Witan Studios
272 Witan Gate West
Milton Keynes
MK9 1EJ
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 COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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
In addition to the practical on-the-job training and coaching you will receive; you will study a part-time BSc Building Surveying degree via distance learning with the University College of Estate Management. You will be granted 1 day per week as a study day to work on your degree and other learning.
More training information
Your on-the-job training will include:
- Shadowing qualified colleagues
- Attending relevant training courses (internal and external) both online and in-person
- Attending industry CPD events
- 1-1 coaching
- e-learning for H&S and compliance requirements
- Practical on the job experience on a daily basis
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
- Any (grade 3 A-levels at CCC or higher)
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
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Travel to sites and clients will be a part of the role so full, clean UK driving license and access to a car is essential
About this company
LSH are one of the UK's leading commercial property companies. We have around 1,100 employees based across a network of 29 offices and over 15 different service lines. We have a long trading history that can be traced back to 1773.
After this apprenticeship
Once qualified as a chartered surveyor our usual progression is:
- Surveyor
- Senior Surveyor
- Associate Director
- Senior Associate Director
- Director
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000292742.
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Closes on Friday 31 January
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Company’s application instructions
Apply online and upload a CV. Applicants will be shortlisted and successful applicants invited to an interview at our Milton Keynes office.