2025 Savills Sandwich Programme - Building and Project Consultancy
As a sandwich placement student on the Building Surveying pathway you will receive the same exposure as a Graduate. You will gain experience across all disciplines of Building & Project Consultancy.
Job title
Building Surveying Sandwich Placement Student
Start Date
September 2025
Job Location
London, Leeds, Manchester
Salary
London Salary £26,000, Regional Salary £23,500
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.
Rotations
Your placement may include a fixed seat or a rotation within the various Building Surveying teams or specialisms within Building and Project Consultancy. The number of rotations will depend on business requirements.
Day to day work
"As a sandwich placement student on the Building Surveying pathway you will receive the same exposure as a Graduate. 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.”
Please click here to read a blog from Adam, our most recent placement student.
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 empower those around them
- A team player with leadership potential
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- Highly motivated
- 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 sandwich placement students to reach their full potential. As a sandwich placement student, you'll also have regular opportunities to attend technical, business skills and personal development activities - including conferences, courses, lectures, networking 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.
Benefits
- 1 Year contract
- Company mobile phone
- 25 days annual leave
- Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
- Employee Assistance Programme – A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
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 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
- Margaret Street, London, Leeds, Manchester
2025 Savills Sandwich Programme - Building and Project Consultancy
As a sandwich placement student on the Building Surveying pathway you will receive the same exposure as a Graduate. You will gain experience across all disciplines of Building & Project Consultancy.
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