Chartered Building Surveying Apprentice
BIDWELLS LLP
Cambridgeshire (CB2 9LD)
Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
Posted on 10 February 2026
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Summary
Apprentice Building Surveyor role, joining our Building Surveying team at our Head Office in Cambridge.
- Wage
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£21,000 a year
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+ Group Staff Bonus of up to 4-weeks extra pay
+ Generous Benefits Package
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 9.00am - 5.30pm
Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
1 hour for lunch towards the middle of the day.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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5 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
- You will support the Commercial Building Surveying team across a wide range of client projects, helping to deliver reports, design drawings, specifications and contract administration tasks
- The role involves maintaining regular client communication, developing strong professional relationships and proactively managing workloads to meet deadlines and service standards
- You’ll also contribute to internal meetings and build connections across the business, while gaining hands‑on experience
- The successful candidate will be enrolled onto a fully funded Chartered Building Surveying Degree Apprenticeship, providing a structured pathway toward professional qualification
Where you'll work
Bidwell House
Trumpington Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 9LD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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
- Once beginning this apprenticeship, we will enrol you onto a degree apprenticehip course, most likely with the University of Built Environment on an online learning apprenticeship (however other options are available)
- 80% of your time (4 days per week) will be on-the-job working, and 20% of your time (1 day per week) will be dedicated to your degree learning
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level 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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
We are a leading property consultancy firm with 12 offices across the UK, including Cambridge, Oxford & London, branching all the way through to Scotland, dealing with sectors including:
- Agency
- Built Environment
- Capital Markets
- Land & Development
- Property & Estate Management
- Commercial
- Energy & Climate
- Operational Living
- Planning
- Residential
- Rural
We’re a major player in the property sector, but we’re not like the big corporates. And we don’t want to be.
At Bidwells, we are driven by our mission to provide the UK’s most sustainable and innovative property advice. For over 185 years, we have been at the forefront of real estate and have expanded our influence from our Cambridge head office across the Golden Triangle and beyond.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of our mission, focusing on rapidly growing sectors such as forestry, renewables, and sustainable investment. Our work in the natural capital markets positions us at the forefront of efforts to tackle the climate challenge through nature-based solutions, carbon sequestration, and environmental net gain. Equally active in the built environment we are helping clients decarbonise portfolios and bring forward sustainable development.
We are proud to be one of the first property consultancies to achieve B-Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
Benefits
We have more service streams than any other property consultancy, providing a range of career paths and lots of room to progress across our national office network.
We offer competitive salary packages, and the chance to benefit from the success of the business through our profit share schemes. We expect our people to enjoy working hard, so we actively encourage them to enjoy their time outside of work too. Social events have included nights out, a running club, cricket, rowing, rounders, hockey, summer parties and team events.
See our benefits page here:
https://www.bidwells.co.uk/work-with-us/benefits/
Apprenticeships
Our Apprenticeship programme allows talented individuals to build a successful career in real estate whilst gaining a salary, on the job and formal training as well as a recognised qualification at the end.
Across our business, we offer many Apprenticeships and Degree Apprenticeships, ranging from Accountancy to Chartered Surveying. Whatever your age and whatever your background, you could find working in real estate is the career for you!
For all apprenticeships, you will be given time off every week to study towards your qualification. Depending on your provider, taught sessions could be in person or online. You can also use your off-the-job learning time to conduct independent study!
Our RICS Chartered Surveying Degree Apprenticeships are typically 5-year courses. They involve part-time degree study where the taught sessions happen in person at University or via remote sessions. You will also be given adequate time to conduct independent study. Full on the job training and support will be provided and we will also support you through your APC to ensure you become a fully qualified Surveyor!
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Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Health insurance
- Discretionary bonus
- Medicash scheme
- Modern and agile environment in which to work
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
- Training towards and completion of APC to become a RICS accredited chartered surveyor
- Progression through the business up to Partner level
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014156.
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Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
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