Job Title
Senior Surveyor
Job Description Summary
Job Description
Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Surveyor to join its Dublin Office Agency team. This is a hands‑on, client‑focused position for an experienced surveyor who thrives in a collaborative, fast‑paced advisory environment. The role spans supporting senior leadership on large development and leasing mandates, taking ownership of smaller client instructions with growing independence, and contributing to the effective running of team systems and junior talent development. Senior Surveyors are trusted representatives of the firm’s values and brand, providing high‑quality professional advice while contributing directly to fee growth, billing and profitability.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Deliver excellent professional advice and service to office leasing clients
- Support Directors and Associate Directors on major development projects, pitches and transactions
- Act as primary client contact on managed projects, providing updates, advice and solutions
- Run smaller assignments with increasing responsibility and autonomy
- Prepare and contribute to client presentations, bids and pitches
- Identify technical issues in transactions and recommend appropriate solutions
- Proactively generate new business and revenue opportunities
- Build and maintain strong internal and external client relationships
- Contribute to team fee, billing and profit targets
- Deliver personal billing performance aligned to role expectations
- Manage billing, budgets and cost control on assigned instructions
- Identify cross‑selling opportunities and support wider firm services
- Use firm systems to support pricing, billing, cash flow and profitability
- Ensure compliance with firm procedures, professional standards, health & safety and risk policies
- Maintain current knowledge of legislation, case law and market developments
- Demonstrate sound technical competence and market awareness
- Act as a Business Enabler, Trusted Advisor and Leader within the team
- Coach and support graduate and early‑career surveyors
- Share knowledge, provide constructive feedback and support team performance
- Actively pursue personal development, mentoring and CPD requirements
- Embrace and support change and continuous improvement initiatives
Education & Qualifications
- Ideally 2+ years post‑qualification experience
- Background in general practice, preferably client‑facing or transactional
- Experience in a large practice or corporate environment advantageous
- Understanding of business development and client relationship management
- Financial awareness and experience with billing and budgets
- Knowledge of the Irish commercial real estate market and relevant legislation
- SCSI qualified (or actively working towards qualification)
Skills & Attributes
- Commercially aware, organised and client‑focused
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills
- Confident report writer with excellent written and verbal English
- Team‑oriented, proactive and able to work with increasing independence
- Strong IT skills including MS Office and industry‑specific systems
Please note: this is a direct search led by Cushman & Wakefield. We only work with recruitment agencies on our preferred supplier list, and only where a signed and in date agreement is in place and the agency has been directly instructed on the role by a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
We do not accept speculative or unsolicited CVs submitted to any of our employees or outside of our agreed process. No agency fees will be payable in these circumstances.
INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”
