2025 Savills Graduate Programme - Building and Project Consultancy
Our BPC service provides bespoke specialist solutions that can be applied across all technical aspects of acquisitions, development, ownership, occupation and disposal of property assets.
Job title
Graduate Building Surveyor/Project Manager
Start Date
September 2025
Job Location
Leeds, London, Manchester, Cambridge, Bristol, Cardiff
Salary
London Graduates £30,000 and £1,500 sign on bonus/ Regional Graduates £27,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus
Current Team Information
More than 230 of our consultants advise on buildings and projects throughout the UK with regional offices in England and Scotland (across 15 offices) and further resource for coverage throughout Europe (across 70 offices). In London our teams specialise out into professional services and project management teams, whereas in our regional offices we provide the wider service out of a single team.
Building Surveying:
Our Building and Project Consultancy service provides bespoke end-to-end specialist solutions that can be applied across all technical aspects of a property lifecycle. This includes advisory roles on the acquisition, development, ownership, occupation, sustainable retrofit and disposal of individual assets and portfolios across all property sectors.
Our teams work closely with a range of institutional clients across the UK and Europe, including commercial property landlords, investors, banks, and occupiers, understanding their specific business objectives to provide clear holistic advice in relation to their property interests.
Project Management (Construction / Property):
Our national team of project managers include specialists in every property sector and corner of the market, allowing us to apply specific yet broad expertise to office, industrial, logistics, mixed-use, retail and residential development projects. Bringing together expertise from chartered building surveying, project management and structural engineering backgrounds, we offer a truly national service. Our project management teams work for investors, developers, landlords, owner occupiers and tenants, managing the development, refurbishment or fit-out of property across the full range of sectors.
Our work covers all aspects of project and programme management, including the employer's agent role, risk management, procurement or programming, contract administration and strategic project consultancy.
About this role
Building Surveying:
Please click here to hear more about our Graduate Building Surveyor role, from one of our current graduates.
If working in the regions you will be in a fixed seat where you will experience various areas of Building Surveying. If in London you will rotate across the various teams within Building & Project Consultancy. The number of rotations may depend on business requirements.
London - click here for more team information
Leeds, Bristol or Cardiff (The role will be based within one of these locations), Manchester - Click here to see team information
DAY TO DAY WORK
As a graduate on the building surveying pathway you will gain experience across all disciplines of Building & Project Consultancy, including technical due diligence, dilapidations, building surveying projects, project management, neighbourly matters and planned preventative maintenance. Through undertaking of building surveys, dilapidations inspections, project progress site visits and client meetings, together with the preparation of reports, dilapidations assessments and the design and specification of tender documentation, no two days are the same.
Project Management:
Please click here to hear more about our Graduate Project Manager role, from a previous graduate and click here here from a current graduate.
If working in the regions you will be in a fixed seat where you will experience various areas of Project Management. If in London you will rotate across the Project Management teams. The number of rotations may depend on business requirements.
London – Click here for team information
Cambridge – Click here for a video from the team and Click here for team information
DAY TO DAY WORK
As a graduate on the Project Management pathway you will gain experience across a range of teams and sectors within Building & Project Consultancy, ranging from residential and commercial refurbishment to new build development. Through this pathway you will experience client meetings, project meetings, site visits and gain experience of programming, tendering and contract administration.
How you’ll make an impact
- High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
- Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- A team player with leadership potential
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Highly motivated
- Ability to empower those around them
- Computer literate
Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.
Training
Our training and development programme is highly regarded as one of the best in the property industry, and is geared towards enabling our graduates to reach their full potential. As a graduate, you'll also have regular opportunities to attend technical, business skills and personal development activities - including conferences, courses, lectures, networking, mock assessments, revision sessions and social events - which compliment both your practical experience and meet the theoretical requirements of your APC.
We were awarded the Times Graduate Employer of choice for Property for the 18th year consecutively, which highlights our excellent training programme, which is bespoke for each pathway. You will have an APC supervisor and counsellor who support and guide you throughout the two year training programme. They will discuss your training and experience needs at regular progress reviews, ensuring you receive the support you require.
Career development
Once you've successfully passed your APC and become a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), you'll continue to receive training and career development opportunities. We ensure that your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is current and that all staff are fully up-to-date with changes to legislation and business needs.
Benefits
- Permanent Contract for all graduates, as opposed to a 2 year training contract
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Pension Scheme – Royal London
- Company mobile phone and laptop
- Training and APC costs covered
- 25 days annual leave
- Employee discounts - save money using our MyRewards on thousands of discounts and offers
- Pitch your idea to our Board via the Savills Dragons Den (Innovation and growth initiative)
- Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
- Employee Assistance Programme – A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- ShareSave - Save As You Earn share option scheme
Assessment for this role
Online Application - CLICK HERE TO APPLY - Applications close on 3rd November 2024
Online Assessment - SHL (will be sent on application completion and will need to be completed by 8am on 4th November 2024)
Assessment Centre (28th November 2024 at our Head Office Margaret Street, London)
Potential interview with local team following the Assessment Centre
Savills Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_-G1TlJBI
Savills is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. Our aim is that our teams will be truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We attract, recruit and retain the best people in property. Right across the world, and in areas of property as diverse as real estate management and venture capital funding.
Please note, we will use your personal data to respond to your application. For further details, or to view our Privacy Notice or Group Equality & Diversity policy, see our website - savills.co.uk. Please note that all applications will be screened without your personal details on them. We will also ask you, as part of the application to complete a RARE contextual data form, in order to support our screening process and identify out performers.
Savills is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and is an accredited Living Wage Employer.
Savills is a signatory of the Race at Work Charter – committing to the equality of opportunity in the workplace for all.
- Pathway
- Building and Project Consultancy
- Role
- Building Surveying
- Locations
- Leeds, Margaret Street, London, Manchester, Cambridge, Bristol, Cardiff
2025 Savills Graduate Programme - Building and Project Consultancy
Our BPC service provides bespoke specialist solutions that can be applied across all technical aspects of acquisitions, development, ownership, occupation and disposal of property assets.
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