Apprentice Surveyor
DOBSON-GREY LTD
Atherstone On Stour (CV37 8BL)
Closes in 26 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 July 2025
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Summary
Join Dobson-Grey as an Apprentice Surveyor and embark on a rewarding career path towards becoming a MRICS Chartered Surveyor. You'll gain diverse experience in a niche firm, with support to join an accredited university course after 6 months, and comprehensive assistance for your Assessment of Professional Competence.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
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- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm with 1 hour lunch break. Friday, 9am to 4pm with 1 hour lunch break. 1 dedicated day per week for study leave.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 18 August 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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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
On a normal day as an Apprentice Surveyor at Dobson-Grey, you will perform a variety of tasks across different areas of the business:
- You will provide effective and enthusiastic support to Dobson-Grey consultants and trainers at all levels, working closely with the Project Coordinator and Office Manager. This includes general administrative duties like updating and amending the central contact database, managing files (photocopying, scanning, closing files), covering incoming calls professionally, and handling email requests efficiently.
- A significant portion of your time will be dedicated to Land & Development Associated Tasks. This involves identifying land and development opportunities across the Greater Midlands, maintaining various property databases (requirements, site availability, comparable information), and assisting with online mapping tools for site maps and area measuring. You will also provide office-based support for site searches using resources like Land Registry/Searchflow and Promap.
- You will assist in surveying properties under the supervision of senior surveyors and consultants, which may include conducting viewings of available properties and proactively marketing them through telephone calls and emails. You'll also undertake site finding duties, exploring local plans and travelling to destinations to identify land opportunities.
- You will be involved in research activities, such as providing research support for expert witness submissions, undertaking research into build costs for projects, and investigating sales, rental, and capital values through databases and agent contacts. Furthermore, you will conduct regular research into property law, planning law, valuation, development, project management, and RICS guidance notes.
- Support for the Health and Safety Team is also a key part of the role. This includes providing research assistance and due diligence, assisting consultants with the compilation and issue of Health & Safety documentation (e.g.F10 forms), and helping with CDM documentation like Pre-Construction Information and Construction Phase Plans.
Where you'll work
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Alscot Studios
Alscot Park
Atherstone On Stour
CV37 8BL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
Your 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.
Your training plan
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
x 3 subjects (grade C)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
To apply for this role, you must be: Committed to completing the Apprenticeship training and subsequent APC and becoming a MRICS Chartered Surveyor. Confident, commercially astute. Ability to work accurately under pressure. Team player. Hold a clean and valid driving licence.
About this company
Dobson-Grey Ltd is an ISO 9001:2015 multi-disciplinary consultancy firm providing RICS-regulated chartered surveying and RTPI-compliant town planning services. Our health & safety and fire consultancy services are dedicated to realising the vision of a safe and healthy work environment while elevating the competence of safety and environmental professionals at all organisational levels.
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Company benefits
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a full Christmas shutdown. Pension plan, training, healthcare insurance and wellness schemes. Cycle/bike access schemes. Team away day and team events
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
This is a step toward the Graduate Surveyor position (dependent upon entry level) within the company. As a Graduate Surveyor you will be supported with your Assessment of Professional competence.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DOBSON-GREY LTD
Justine Holt
jholt@dobson-grey.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329347.
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Closes in 26 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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