Are you an experienced M&E Consultant looking for a new opportunity in the Commercial Property sector? Our client is a niche commercial property consultancy who provides advice to Commercial Landlords. This position offers a competitive and attractive salary based on skills and experience.

Company Overview:

Our client is a niche commercial property consultancy, consisting of surveyors and engineers specialising in providing advice to Commercial landlords and tenants throughout the UK.

Our client undertakes surveys, assess & report condition, prepare feasibility studies, specify & procure works, undertake project management and Principal Designer duties. Other services offered include, lease advice, condition surveys, maintenance contract reviews & administration, service charge reviews, due diligence surveys, planned maintenance programmes and energy reviews.

Surveyors typically work in teams with other disciplines and in close contact with the client, advising them on technical, legal, and financial matters.

Professional Skills

• Project Management
• Maintenance contract advice and procurement
• Contract Administrator & Employer's Agent
• Design & specification writing up to £2M M&E value
• PPM and asset condition schedules
• Quality audits & Technical Monitoring
• Defects Diagnosis
• Dilapidations
• Principal Designer

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

• Degree or HNC level qualified in Mechanical / Electrical or similar technical discipline
• Previous experience in surveying commercial premises
• Experience in CDM
• Health & Safety experience or training
• Strong technical delivery experience
• Ability to successfully manage complex projects in a proactive and diligent manner
• Excellent specification writing skills
• Good understanding of JCT Contracts
• Strong track record in project management of projects from inception to completion
• Track record of working with disparate stakeholders
• Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery
• Able to build long-term relationships
• Previously employed by a consultancy
• A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines
• A team player, flexible, enthusiastic, and ambitious

Typical day to day roles

Working for Tenants:

• Dilapidations surveys mostly London based office clients - visual surveys of all M&E services and assessing the cost to return/reinstate demised areas to base build, including obtaining sub-contractor quotes as evidence.
• M&E condition surveys to assist service charge disputes - condition and specialist advice on for example boilers, chillers, air handling units, electrical HV/LV, lighting, small power, fire alarm systems. Assessment of remaining life spans to aid service charge disputes.
• Re-tender of demised office M&E contracts - maintenance specification writing, creation of M&E asset lists, assessment of statutory tasks, sub -contract roles, tender reports to clients.
• Assessment of value for money of M&E maintenance contracts, the starting point usually cost and/or quality and research of alternative costs.
• Assessment of costs within landlord's lifecycle plans on behalf of the tent i.e., questioning the necessity and scope of works by lease end or lease break dates.
• Checking the tenants lease obligations when compared with M&E service charge costs.
• Working for landlords:
• M&E quarterly audits on maintenance contracts, checking stat docs, costs, PPM's, ad-hoc technical advice & enquiries received from managing agents, including writing audit reports.
• Small projects (up to £0.5M value) design, specification & project management ranging from for example a VRV installation for a 75,000 ft2 building in Bristol, or a new chiller specification for a building in Mayfair, London - to a small office fit out in London
• Cost advice on compliance with the energy performance (EPC) MEES regulations including report writing, site surveys to gain technical information from O&M manuals.
• Completion of electrical apportionment calculations utilising spreadsheets and report writing on large commercial buildings.
• Working for Contractor:
• Lifecycle asset surveys on schools, private offices, smaller healthcare premises, colleagues including reports.
• Design and specification of small projects on swimming pool, small healthcare premises and private offices.

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