Building Surveyor - Assistant / Newly qualified Embedded Estate

Building Surveyor – Embedded Estate & Traditional Consultancy Mix
Location: City of London

Join a boutique consultancy delivering a rare blend of retained client-side estate work and traditional surveying instructions. This role offers variety, autonomy, and strong project ownership within a quality-driven, highly respected practice.

About the Role

This is a dual-track position, ideally suited to a building surveyor who enjoys balancing structured project delivery with hands-on professional work. You’ll split your time equally between:

Client-Side Estate Projects (c.50%)

• Delivering external decorations, planned maintenance, and life-cycle projects on commercial, retail and residential buildings for one of the London 'Great Estates'

• Acting as embedded surveyor for a prestigious estate client

• Carrying out site inspections, managing contractors, and overseeing project quality

• Liaising directly with the client and reporting progress to the Director

Traditional Consultancy Surveying (c.50%)

• Conducting pre-acquisition surveys and defect analyses

• Preparing schedules of condition and dilapidations reports

• Supporting party wall instructions and contract administration

• Managing diverse commercial and residential instructions across London

About You
You’ll need:

• At least 12 months’ experience in a building surveying role

• Strong professional and project-based technical knowledge

• Excellent client-facing presence and communication skills

• Ability to work independently and manage your own diary

• Comfortable working full-time from the office and attending site regularly

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Chartered MRICS status or be on the APC pathway (support provided)

• Experience with estate or block portfolio surveying

• Knowledge of leasehold property and traditional construction

Why Apply?

• Meaningful mix of retained and consultancy clients

• Early responsibility and strong project variety

• Mentorship and full APC support (100% pass first time record)

• Clear career development path

• Structured hours and a supportive team culture

Understandably, you will not have all of the skills required, but they value people with a willingness to learn and a good work ethic, that's the main requirement! 

Click Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation with Andrew Pearson at EC Property Recruitment. My contact number is 07940 597 931 and you can find all my details on LinkedIn.