The Guardian
Building Surveyor
Location: South West – covering Dorset, Somerset & South Devon areas
Salary: £44,345 per annum
Vacancy Type: Full Time
At the organisation, they are now looking for a Building Surveyor (known internally as Partnering Surveyor) to take responsibility for the delivery of responsive/void, grounds maintenance, planned investment and major works programmes.
Ensuring all projects/work is undertaken in a safe and CDM compliant manner, you will instil and maintain long-term relationships with their key supply chain partners in delivering programmes of planned investment, major repair projects and responsive maintenance to create a seamless service with shared values. You’ll contribute to performance reports and attend performance reviews with their partners to enable feedback and proactive actions on team delivery and efficiency and investigate and resolve construction/building related defects to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction is maintained.
This role is to cover around 2,000 homes across Dorset, Somerset and South Devon, from Wareham, Dorchester, Martinstown, Weymouth and Bridport through to Torquay, including numerous rural villages and inland communities such as Wincanton. It’s a varied patch spanning coastal, market town and countryside locations.
The ideal candidate will:
- Ideally be educated to HND level or have an equivalent professional qualification in construction, housing, management, or property.
- Be highly personable with a strong customer focus.
- Experience of dealing with complaints and customer queries
- Be computer literate and have some experience of housing management systems.
- Have proven experience of operating long-term partnering contracts.
- Have proven experience of delivering large scale programmes of Capital Investment component works on time and to budget, across a wide geographical area.
- Have proven experience of delivering a responsive/void/service charge maintenance service.
- Be fully understanding of CDM compliance.
- Have a good understanding of ‘Decent Homes’ requirements.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.
Discover the Organisation:
The organisation is a leading housing provider. They manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across their portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
They reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
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