Building Surveyor / Senior Building Surveyor

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for a Chartered Building Surveyor, or a Surveyor working towards Chartership, who is ready to take the next step in their career. You will join a growing Technical Due Diligence (TDD) and Building Surveying team supporting leading clients on some of the most high-profile property transactions across Ireland, with opportunities to work on UK and European assignments.

You’ll work across a diverse portfolio of commercial assets, delivering a mix of Technical Due Diligence, building surveying, and project-led advisory services supporting lender and investor clients by providing clear, trusted advice that directly influences investment decisions. This is an opportunity to step into a visible, client-facing role with real responsibility, strong progression potential, and exposure to complex, varied work.

Role accountabilities

• Deliver Technical Due Diligence (TDD) advice and reporting across a range of asset types, clearly identifying, quantifying and prioritising asset risks, with commercially focused recommendations to support informed investment decisions.
• In addition to TDD, undertake professional technical consultancy services including, asset condition surveys and dilapidations.
• Preparation and submission of planning applications, Fire Safety Certificates and Disability Access Certificates to local authorities, in full compliance with Irish building regulations.
• Manage and coordinate project procurement and delivery, including preparation of tender documents (schedules of work, detailed drawings, and specifications), tender analysis and contractor appointments; and maintain oversight of works to drive quality.
• Act as Assigned Certifier under the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations (BC(A)R), overseeing compliance and certification throughout the construction process.
• Take accountability for delivering a high-quality client experience, ensuring outputs are clear, timely, and aligned with client expectations.
• Ensure clear and effective communication across project teams, providing accurate and timely information to support successful project delivery with efficient financial control.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Building Surveying and RICS qualified (or well progressed on your APC journey).
• Excellent technical ability.
• Multi-discipline experience.
• A broad thinker who can take a global view and has an inherent ability to deliver successfully.
• Ability to manage project risk.
• Ability to be flexible to meet tight project deadlines.
• Manage quality standards to ensure high quality outputs.
• Understanding of technical and legislative requirements, with a good commercial awareness.
• Strong client relationship management with a focus on building trusted advisor
• Experience with AutoCAD.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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