Regional Surveyor - Housing x 2

Regional Surveyor - Housing x 2

Agile working in London offices with travel across sites

£52,000

Are you an experienced Surveyor looking for a career working for a leading charity?

Our client has exciting opportunities for people to join their Assets and Compliance team as Regional Surveyors in Bristol and London.

Their ambition as a homelessness charity and housing association is to end homelessness for good, they believe that a key step of reaching this aim is in providing quality housing. Their Housing Services teams work hard to ensure they can provide safe, comfortable and sustainable homes which give people the opportunity to rebuild their lives.

In the role of Regional Surveyor, you will play a role in helping them continue to deliver on their ambitions, through leading on responsive and planned maintenance service delivery for with supported housing and self-contained accommodation in a designated region. Additional key responsibilities will include:

• Responsibility for inspections of responsive and complex repairs, damp and mould.
• Supporting the delivery of capital and revenue reinvestment programmes and major projects, including cyclical maintenance programmes, refurbishment of acquired assets, onboarding new buildings, and managing termination dilapidations.
• Build strong relationships with our internal and external clients to deliver a high quality, customer focused service and with our supply chain partners to deliver on time and to budget whilst achieving quality work and value for money.

In this role you will travel to various site locations within their West London Region or their Southwest Regional (Bristol / Oxford / Milton Keynes) on a regular basis. Your office base will be either in Kensington & Chelsea (West London Region) or Hounslow (Southwest Region). Occasional travel to their Central Office, near St Katherine’s Dock will also be required. This allows for in person collaboration, team building, line management and other relationship building opportunities.

They support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest; from home, or other London or regional locations.

About you

They are looking for a skilled Surveyor with proven experience in management and delivery of responsive repairs, major works projects, and planned reinvestment programmes or cyclical maintenance programmes.

• You may hold an HNC / HND level qualification or higher in Building Surveying (or equivalent qualification) or be able to demonstrate equivalent work experience.
• You will demonstrate the ability to deliver robust contract management that delivers on time and to budget, and your experience of large scale budget management and valuations.
• You may have some experience working in the social housing sector, which is beneficial but not essential.
• A full UK or equivalent driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this role.

Above all they are looking for solution focussed people who are enthusiastic about using their skills to improve their buildings, giving our clients safe and comfortable places to live.

Closing date: 10 am on 20 May 2024

They will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and may close this advert early.

They are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. They strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.