Careers at Harris Lamb

We believe in helping our people flourish as our business does. Having started 30 years ago as a team of two, we now have a talented 90-strong team located across six Midlands offices offering a diverse range of services and award-winning skills.

Property Career Progression and Development

We’re committed to helping our team further their careers. If you are a recent graduate we provide in-house mentoring and support toward Professional Qualifications including RICS, RTPI and CIEEM in order to ensure you fulfil your professional goals, and pride ourselves on our dynamic and progressive working culture. We are an organisation that is Investors in People accredited to look after our most valuable commodity. If you are interested in property consultant jobs, surveyor jobs, graduate jobs, or developing your career further within the property sector, and can demonstrate you are committed to our core values. Check out our available job opportunities below.

Throw in a great social calendar, we’re strong advocates of a good work/life balance and you’ll understand why we’ve got such a high staff retention rate across each of our 14 departments.

If you’re looking to progress your career, learn new skills and be part of an established independent business with a great national reputation, we’d love to hear from you.

If this sounds interesting we'd like you to get in contact.

Alice Przybylak

Current Vacancies

Commercial Valuation Surveyor

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Location: Birmingham

Salary: £negotiable dependent on experience.

Harris Lamb is looking for RICS qualified Commercial Valuation Surveyor to join its expanding valuation team in Birmingham.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join a dynamic team working closely with senior professionals to provide high quality commercial property valuations for a wide variety of clients across the business for:

• Loan security

• Company Accounts

• Pension Fund

• Acquisition and disposal

• Taxation including Probate/Inheritance Tax, Capital Gains, Charities Act

• Residential and commercial development site appraisals

We are looking for an individual able to work independently with minimal supervision and with proven experience in commercial property valuation (ideally with exposure to a range of property types).

The role will be based in our Birmingham office but will involve travel across the Midlands and provides an excellent opportunity to join a social team environment with a positive culture that will provide the necessary support to ensure career progression.

Please submit your CV to Fiona Mellor: fiona.mellor@harrislamb.com

ECOLOGIST

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Location: Birmingham/Worcester

Salary: Dependent on experience

Harris Lamb are looking for enthusiastic ecologists to join its growing Ecology team with positions available at various levels. Successful candidates will work within our integrated ecology and planning team on a wide range of developments across the UK.

The role will be working with, and supporting, our team of ecologists based out of either our Birmingham, Worcester or Nottingham offices and your home location.

The role will include a variety of office and ecology fieldwork which can require working away from home and staying overnight with expenses covered.

The job will provide you with the opportunity to develop new survey skills, undertake protected species surveys and undertake a wide range of ecology related tasks with support from a mentor, providing you with valuable consultancy experience.

To develop your professional career, we have a healthy training budget to actively encourage technical and personal development.

Day to day responsibilities will include

Support organising field surveys
Undertaking initial desk studies – gathering, reviewing and assessing existing ecological information produced by the team
Supporting ecological field surveys and developing in-field data collection techniques
Undertaking protected species surveys such as newts, bat and badger surveys

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and good time management with a full driving licence and access to a car. Botanical skills are extremely beneficial, in particular any FISC qualifications and experience of BNG and habitat management. Protected species survey class licences are also advantageous, for bats and great crested newts in particular.

For more senior positions, we are seeking:

Relevant professional ecological experience (at least three years’ full-time experience working in ecological consultancy)
Project management and client liaison skills
Protected species survey class licences and experience in European Protected Species (EPS) mitigation licensing.

We offer a full range of benefits to our employees, including:

Commitment to ongoing professional development
Enhanced pension scheme
Inclusion in company-paid Healthcare scheme
Payment of professional membership fees
Ecologist-designed TOIL policy
Flexible working

In the first instance please send a CV to natalie.walsh@harrislamb.com.

The post will close when the vacancy is filled.

CHARTERED BUILDING SURVEYOR

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Location: Birmingham

Salary: £negotiable dependant on experience.

Harris Lamb’s Building Consultancy team is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Chartered Building Surveyor to join its ranks, providing support to the business’ UK client base.

The role will predominantly comprise of commercial surveying works within the industrial and retail sectors, performing a range of duties to include:

· Dilapidations

· Building Surveys

· Schedule of Conditions

· Pre-acquisition Surveys

· Contract Administration

· Project Management

· Party Wall Awards

· Reinstatement Insurance Costs Assessments.

The successful candidate will hold a full driving license and will have completed the APC pathway to achieve Chartered status.

Please submit your CVs to Gareth Booker: gareth.booker@harrislamb.com.