Senior Building Surveyor

Large Housing Association seeks a Senior Building Surveyor to deliver all aspects of major and reactive works to customer in their homes. You will use your extensive knowledge, experience and qualifications to provide detailed building consultancy services to ensure that homes are effectively maintained and cared for, today and for the future.

Responsibilities:

You will be a key contributor to the development and implementation of the new Repair Strategy and lead the transformation of services.

Delivering well cared for homes and places where residents feel safe and a sense of pride through top class contract management.

Recommend, oversee and manage the best external suppliers, agents and contractors to maintain and improve homes.

Establish and maintain a culture of service improvement, supporting staff to deliver

change projects to meet developing and evolving customer needs

Manage complex and/or difficult programmes of works within your specified area to deliver a high-quality service, on time and to budget, actively problem solving in order to maximise performance of the contracts

Conduct full building surveys and prepare reports and recommendations, including cost analysis.

Prepare scheme designs for complex projects, with costs, programmes for completions and specifications of works.

Prepare documents for tender and advice on appointing contractors, designers and

procurement routes.

Negotiate dilapidations where there is a legal liability for a property's state of disrepair.

Prepare planning applications as required for works to existing buildings and respond to

planning consultations for neighbouring and adjoining homes.

Provide high quality technical surveying assessments and/or advice and/or reports on

major repairs/defects/latent defects/cyclical works/FRA/EPC or any other contracted

works.

Skills and experience:

Appropriate senior surveying qualifications such as BSc or MSc, Chartered Member of

RICs, CIOB

In depth post qualification relevant experience (5 years minimum) providing services to

residential property owners and managers.

Significant experience in project management of major works, along with experience in

preparing tender docs, scope of works and cost appraisal and dealing with interim/final

accounts.

Experience of delivering repair improvement plans across complex delivery models

Experience of delivering performance and intelligence projects in a repairs or property

services environment to drive service improvement

£271 pd PAYE or £358 pd Umbrella