Senior Building Surveyor

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Built Environment Senior Building Surveyor

Grade: MMJ1
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £87,041
Location: Palestra, Southwark (On Site / Office)
Closing Date: Thursday 1st October 2026 @23:59

About the Role

We are seeking a Chartered Building Surveyor (MRICS/FRICS) to lead the delivery of inspection and surveying activities across London Underground's built environment portfolio. This role offers an opportunity to combine technical excellence with innovation, leveraging data, technology, and modern surveying approaches to enhance asset intelligence, boost productivity, and unlock efficiencies. You will be instrumental in ensuring our assets remain safe, compliant, and resilient, while supporting the organisation's goal of achieving more with less through smarter working methods.

Working with a diverse portfolio of stations and operational buildings, you will transform asset condition data into actionable insights, influencing decisions related to maintenance, investment, and asset strategy.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the planning and delivery of inspection and surveying programmes across the portfolio.
• Drive the adoption of innovative technologies, digital solutions, and modern surveying techniques to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities for standardisation, synergies, and repeatable process improvements that deliver sustainable cost and performance benefits.
• Provide expert technical leadership on building condition, defects, and asset risks.
• Assure the quality of surveys, inspections, and asset data, ensuring robust evidence-based decisions.
• Use asset intelligence to optimise maintenance, prioritise investment, and improve whole-life asset performance.
• Champion continuous improvement, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
• Build strong relationships across engineering, operational, and asset management teams to deliver shared outcomes.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Chartered Building Surveyor (MRICS or FRICS).
• Degree-qualified in Building Surveying or a related discipline.
• Significant experience managing building inspections, condition surveys, and technical assessments within complex asset portfolios.
• Strong understanding of building pathology, construction technology, and asset management principles.
• Demonstrable experience using data, technology, and innovation to improve performance, productivity, and value.
• Proven ability to identify efficiencies, reduce waste, and deliver measurable business benefits.
• Excellent stakeholder management, analytical, and communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience within transport, infrastructure, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience implementing digital surveying, asset management, or inspection technologies.
• Experience leading technical teams and developing professional capability.

Our Commitment to People and Inclusion

TfL is committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and actively support inclusion, wellbeing, and professional development.

Application Process

Please ensure your CV clearly demonstrates how you meet the essential requirements, particularly your Chartered RICS status, technical surveying expertise, and examples of delivering innovation, efficiencies, and tangible business improvements.

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, aiming to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. We aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria. Our selection methods are applied fairly, consistently, and proportionately. We use anonymising software to remove identifying information from CVs and cover letters to ensure a fair process.

External Candidates

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right-to-work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 29 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Hybrid working approach (business and role requirements permitting)
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give as much notice as possible for interviews/assessments, though some may be organised at short notice.