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.
Current Vacancies
Agency Graduate/Chartered Surveyor
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Location: Birmingham
Salary: £ negotiable (dependant on experience)
Harris Lamb’s Commercial & Industrial Agency team is looking for anenthusiastic Graduate/Chartered Surveyor to join its award-winning team.
The role will predominantly comprise of commercial agency work within the industrial and warehouse sector, performing a range of duties to include:
· Industrial & Commercial Sales
· Industrial & Commercial Lettings
· Acquisitions
· Development and Investment
· Office Agency
· Marketing
We are ideally looking for someone with experience as a graduate surveyor through to a recently qualified chartered surveyor, however encourage all applications. The applicant must have an RICS accredited degree (or be undertaking an RICS accredited course) and hold a full driving licence. If required, the applicant will be fully supported through the APC process to achieve Chartered status.
GRADUATE 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 Graduate 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.
We are looking for someone with experience as an assistant building surveyor through to a recently chartered building surveyor, with a degree in Building Surveying or an accredited RICS equivalent.
The successful candidate will hold a full driving license and will be enrolled or have part-completed the APC pathway toward Chartered status; a certification Harris Lamb, with its in-house mentor, is committed to supporting colleagues through to successful completion.
Please submit your CVs to Gareth Booker: gareth.booker@harrislamb.com.
Seasonal Ecologist
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Location: Birmingham / Worcester / Nottingham
Salary: £20,500 – £21,500 pro-rata (6 month contract April – September)
Harris Lamb are looking for an enthusiastic seasonal ecologist to join our growing Ecology Team for the summer 2023 season. You 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 seven ecologists from an office and home location. The role will include a variety of both office and ecology fieldwork tasks which can require working away from home and staying overnight with all 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.
Responsibilities
Capabilities & Qualifications
- Full driving licence & car
- GIS experience
- Ecological consultancy or wildlife survey experience
Successful candidates with the required skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package. You can expect:
- To work in a friendly environment with excellent opportunities to learn about the property sector
- The opportunity to work with, and help in developing our use of, new and exciting technologies in the field
- Contributions to a pension
- Flexible working including options for home working
- Company-funded regular staff social events throughout the year
In the first instance please send a CV to eva.earnshaw@harrislamb.com. The post will close when the vacancy is filled.
Senior/Principal Ecologist
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Location: Birmingham, Nottingham (flexible working arrangements including home working available)
Salary: £30,000 – £45,000 depending on experience
Harris Lamb are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic ecologist to join our growing Ecology Team. You will work within our integrated ecology and planning team on a wide range of property-related developments across the UK.
The role will be working with our team of six ecologists from an office or home location. The role will be a good mix of office and ecology fieldwork which can necessitate working away from home overnight during the week. The role provides significant scope for developing client contacts through a range of social and networking events and would suit someone wishing to build long-lasting client relationships. To develop your professional career we have a healthy training budget to actively encourage technical and personal growth.
The role would particularly suit someone who is keen to develop a deep understanding of the property sector who would benefit from working alongside our planning and residential agents on projects from the early stage right through to construction and long-term management. The role would be of particular interest to someone keen to work alongside our ecological contracting team supporting the implementation of protected species mitigation post consent.
Responsibilities
- Project Management – co-ordination of field surveys, managing project budgets, supporting with client liaison and consultations with statutory and non-statutory consultees
- Ecological field surveys and coordinating and mentoring junior members of staff and supporting improving in-field data collection techniques
- Undertaking assessment of the impacts of proposed developments (e.g. EIA and non-EIA, HRA), developing recommendations for the mitigation of ecological impacts and devising monitoring schemes
- Good understanding of Biodiversity Net Gain and the use of DEFRA metric
- Attending meetings with the internal team and clients.
- Supporting delivery of in-house training and client training.
- General administrative / management tasks relating to project quality, environmental issues, and health and safety (including risk assessment), and marketing.
Capabilities & Qualifications
- Experience of working within a planning or environmental consultancy
- A relevant degree preferable full member of CIEEM
- An understanding of wildlife legislation and ecological impact assessment under the EIA regulations
- Knowledge of plant or animal groups with a specialism
- Excellent commercial and project management skills
- Ability to support coordination of a survey team of ecologists
- Full driving licence
Successful candidates with the required skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package. You can expect:
- To work in a friendly environment with excellent opportunities to learn about the property sector;
- Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance;
- Generous support package for professional development through both internal and external training;
- Generous car allowance;
- Payment of membership fees to relevant professional body;
- The opportunity to work with, and help in developing our use of, new and exciting technologies in the field;
- To be encouraged to have your say on how the company aims are delivered;
- Contributions to a pension;
- Flexible working including options for home working;
- Company-funded regular staff social events throughout the year.