Building Consultant
- Queensland
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive remuneration package where you can earn up to 40% of your salary through bonus
- Uncapped earning potential (CRD bonus scheme) based on individual performance
- Company-paid professional memberships
- Great team culture - be inspired to do your best
- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Join during an exciting rapid growth phase - multiple positions available
- National team culture: Crawford technology enables nationwide collaboration on all inspections, investigations and reports with opportunity for interstate and regional travel
- Varied work: 40% site visits and 60% office/hybrid (typically) - File/job closure within 3-4 weeks (typically) - Insurance claims range from storm damage, fire, bushfire, impact damage, leaking pipes, malicious damage, liability etc.
- Sound technical experience in building consultancy work (min 3+ years).
- Strong commercial and business sense.
- Excellent client relationships and communication skills.
- High motivation, responsibility, sound judgement and customer focus.
- Previous experience documenting and leading a diverse range of projects.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced consulting environment with competing demands.
- Excellent technical report writing skills.
- Experience in commercial and domestic building practices, understanding building regulations, codes, and standards, and being able to demonstrate the ability to interpret technical building matters.
- A genuine passion to assist in identifying and resolving site issues.
- Extensive technical building experience that you have gained through a trade or site experience.
- You are currently a registered building practitioner as an engineer, building inspector, building surveyor, quantity surveyor, or builder (commercial or domestic).
- A methodical and efficient approach to managing your time.
- Be well-presented, energetic, polite, and have a friendly attitude.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, where you have the knack for interpreting complex issues and distilling them into actionable solutions.
- Strong ability to produce high quality technical reports using Word and Excel.
- A valid and current drivers licence.
- Conduct inspections of properties and buildings to identify defects, evaluate compliance, and identify liabilities in relevance to the project.
- Conduct unbiased investigations for various types of clients.
- Prepare written reports that document causes of failure, extent of loss, and recommended remediation.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Maintain and champion a professional service mindset through organisational learning, continuous improvement, and professional development.
- Prepare detailed building reports for defective or incomplete work, make good reports, stage inspection reports, dilapidation reports, condition reports, and other reports as required.
- Provide expert witness testimony in the courts, as required.
- Develop and maintain a good knowledge of appropriate Government legislation, standards, and codes relating to building, construction processes, technologies, and associated building materials.
- Loss adjusting - property, major and complex loss, catastrophe response
- Third-party administration (Crawford TPA is a Lloyd's accredited provider)
- Forensic accounting including business interruption expertise
- Cyber response
- Managed repair services (Contractor Connection)
- Quantity surveying, forensic engineering & building consultancy (CRD Building Consultants)
- Legal services (HBA Legal)