Operations - Apprentice Building Surveyor
Grosvenor Property UK
London (W1K 3JP)
Closes in 14 days (Friday 22 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 May 2026
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Summary
This role supports the Building Surveying and Major Works teams, gaining experience across planned maintenance, retrofit, upkeep and project work. Working with wider teams, the role helps ensure our properties are well maintained and improved while protecting their heritage and architectural quality.
- Wage
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£27,482 a year
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm, including one day a week at University.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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6 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Carrying out inspections of buildings and construction sites, gathering relevant information, and accurately recording it within the appropriate databases and systems.
- Supporting the team in monitoring works undertaken by tenants, residents, freeholders, and internal development teams to ensure compliance with approved drawings, plans, and specifications.
- Promoting and maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring your own safety and that of others, and monitoring compliance with Health & Safety legislation across construction sites.
- Reading and interpreting leases, developing a clear understanding of obligations and responsibilities for both tenants and Grosvenor as landlord.
- Collecting, recording and interpreting technical building data, including information relevant to defects, damages, dilapidations, and other surveying assessments.
- Taking measurements from buildings or drawings and assisting with the preparation, maintenance, and updating of plans.
- Assisting in the preparation of specifications for works and supporting the production of contract documentation.
- Assisting with carrying out tender analysis and preparing clear, reasoned tender reports.
- Undertaking building and façade surveys and assisting with the production of 10 Year Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules and associated budgets.
- Carrying out ad-hoc surveys and preparing reports, offering clear, professional, and well-reasoned opinions as required.
- Undertaking costings, measurements, or valuations, using information collected from a variety of sources to support internal reporting and decision making.
- Contributing to Grosvenor’s sustainability objectives, by promoting the use of energy efficient technologies, sustainable or recycled materials, waste reduction practices, and enhancements to biodiversity.
- Carrying out research tasks or supporting specific initiatives as directed by the Head of Building Surveying.
Where you'll work
70
Grosvenor Street
London
W1K 3JP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Training course
Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
- Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
- Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
- Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
- Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
- Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
- Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
- Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
- Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
- Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
Training schedule
Day release, once a week at LSBU's Southwark campus.
More training information
For more information about the BSc (Hons) Chartered Building Surveying Apprenticeship at LSBU:
https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/course-finder/chartered-apprenticeship-building-surveying
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Initiative
About this employer
Grosvenor is an international organisation whose activities span urban property, food & agtech, rural estate management and support for philanthropic initiatives.
We develop, manage and invest to improve property and places across many of the world’s leading cities. In the food & agtech sector our growing investment portfolio includes some of the industry’s most innovative businesses working towards a better food system. We manage rural estates and their environmentally sensitive habitats, while supporting charitable initiatives targeted at vulnerable young people.
We are a values-led organisation which represents the Grosvenor family and share a common purpose – to deliver lasting commercial, social and environmental benefit – addressing today’s needs while taking responsibility for those of future generations.
At Grosvenor, we seek to recruit and develop people who share our values of integrity, respect and trust, and have the skills and ambition to help us successfully deliver our strategy. We live up to our promises, build lasting relationships with our partners and work closely and responsibly with local communities.
After this apprenticeship
MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveying qualification.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000024101.
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Closes in 14 days (Friday 22 May 2026 at 11:59pm)