Lambert Smith Hampton

Delivers commercial building surveying, project management, and property consultancy services while supporting clients across a wide range of real estate projects.The LSH Manchester office is a leading real estate consultancy with Building Consultancy being a key service line. We advise our clients on the full spectrum of building surveying services including, pre-acquisition advice, dilapidations, reinstatement cost assessments, defect advice, together with contract administration, employer’s agent and project management services, party wall and fire reinstatement valuations. Our Building Consultancy team are currently delivering a variety of project management and contract administration instructions across numerous sectors, with project values ranging from minor works up to complex multi-million pound reconfiguration and refurbishment schemes.  We are also continuously undertaking a range of professional instructions including dilapidations, technical due diligence acquisition surveys, schedules of condition, PPM’s, feasibility studies and party walls.  The clients include owners and occupiers and encompass a range of property types with live instructions within the retail, office, leisure, residential and industrial sectors. A career as a commercial Building Surveyor is extremely diverse and rewarding, allowing you to have a direct impact on your clients business.  This comes in many forms, including:-Doing a survey before a business takes a lease on a building, making sure that they know what liability they are taking on and advising on how this can be minimised.Valuing the cost of re-building an office, to make sure that the owner has sufficient insurance cover.Project managing a refurbishment for a Pension Fund provider on an estate that they own, making sure they can quickly re-let it and keep increasing the value of their pension fund.Protecting a tenant when they are about to leave a building, ensuring that their Landlord can’t fleece them for repair and reinstatement costs.Making sure a new build hotel is built to the specification it should be for the owner and that no short cuts are taken by the contractor.  This opportunity:If successful the position will see you working within our growing Building Consultancy team, alongside the Head of Building Consultancy in Manchester. It will give you the opportunity to work closely with the team on a number of key commercial real estate projects that the business has been instructed on. At the Graduate level, you will be working closely with our senior Associate Directors and Directors with a designated APC mentor to help you achieve chartered status. As part of this you will also work on gaining new skills and gain exposure to working on large scale commercial projects. At the Surveyor level the main aim is to work on enhancing your skills as a Building Surveyor by working on more complex matters in conjunction with our Associate Directors and Directors, taking responsibility for your own projects and pieces of work and gaining client exposure at the earliest possible point so that you can start taking on your own client responsibilities and relationships. At the Senior Surveyor level the goal will be to continue working on your skills as a Building Surveyor once again with mentorship from our Directors and Associate Directors in the business. However by this point there is an expectation that you will already be working in a client facing role and taking responsibilities for more complex matters. In turn, LSH will begin helping you in your progression towards Associate Director by moving towards further exposure on specialist and complex Building Surveying matters and by gaining the business development skills to win your own clients and develop your own pipeline of work. This opportunity exists for a:-A chartered Building Surveyor, looking to work with one of the country’s leading commercial property consultancies.A Graduate Surveyor with at least three years experience or close to completing their APC that wants to work with a leading commercial property consultancy who can help them in achieving chartered status. Your attributes:Interested in property, buildings and constructionPassionate about businessAmbitious and driven to develop professionallyAble to take ownership and have pride in your workPersonable, professional and presentable

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Supports the delivery of technical building services, engineering compliance, and facilities management across a commercial property portfolio.Key InterfacesCommercial Property Management colleaguesDirectors and colleagues throughout the UK businessClients – including Landlords, Investors, and External Asset ManagersTenants and OccupiersStatutory and enforcing bodiesOther external agencies and requiredContractorsCore FunctionLambert Smith Hampton is a leading UK provider of Property Management and Facilities Management services acting as managing agent for some of the UK’s leading investors and occupiers. This Job description covers the requirements of a Graduate Technical Services Manager (TSM) to support the wider in house Technical and Engineering Services Team. The Graduate Technical Service Manager will be a key member of the Technical Services and FM team, with a key role in implementing a growing service line within the business. Responsibilities  Technical Lead: Support the other Technical Services Managers as subject matter expert for all technical service delivery across the LSH managed portfolio including offices, industrial and retail.Providing technical advice and operational support to the FM team and clients.General: Support the TSM team with the following tasks:Procurement and tenderingContract administrationContractor managementAsset Registers including asset verification exercises5-10 Planned Preventative Maintenance plansPlant replacement plans including financial appraisalsReview and manage engineering business riskOversee tenant fit outs/provide technical supportManagement of High Voltage and Low Voltage Safe Systems of WorkWarranty and defect management.Term Consultancy: to support with the LSH Term Consultancy service which involves site and contractor audits of reactive and planned maintenance activities across the LSH managed portfolio ensuring that tasks are completed according to the agreed specification and industry standards.Developing the required audit reports and resulting actions plans to ensure service delivery and compliance cross the estate.Supporting with quarterly contractor meetings.Client Focus: Where required attend client meetings and be responsible for client liaison including timely and accurate reporting, including internal where required.Tendering: To provide tender support across the managed portfolio when undertaking national and ad hoc tendering of M&E and Vertical Transportation maintenance services.  Skills, Knowledge & Experience Appropriate building services engineering degreeDesire to work towards MCIBSECommercial awareness from experience and/or qualificationGood working knowledge/understanding of building operating systems (mechanical, electrical, controls and fire/health and safety)Good written communication skills & attention to detailCost control, variance and forecasting reportingGood People skills and team working ethos We understand the value that a diverse and inclusive working environment brings to Lambert Smith Hampton. We celebrate the different perspectives and insights that people can bring through their cultures and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.

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