Building Surveyor

• We offer a competitive salary of £42,300.
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications allowing you to develop your professional development to MRICS.

About The Role

Due to the continued growth and demand in our Housing Disrepair and property repairs team we are looking to recruit Building Surveyors who will focus on both housing disrepair and more complex repair works projects.

This role is a home-based role with the requirement to attend regular weekly site inspections to both occupied and unoccupied homes across our 35,000 properties in Northwest England.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding and experience in undertaking property surveyors, diagnosing defects, preparing schedules of repairs works for remediation and future prevention.

Key Responsibilities

• Repairs Management

Once works are in place to manage the appointed contractor(s) to ensure completion in a satisfactory and timely manner. Completing pre-start meetings, work in progress and post inspection to all properties. Attending site meetings, contractor meetings and communicating with customers and internal/external stakeholders.

• Property Inspection Reports – (Full Building Surveys)

Support the business by completing property inspection reports resulting in the issue of schedules of work to the Repairs Contractor using iPAD based software. Provide work in progress reports on Complex Repair Cases at regular intervals with 100% post inspection of properties following works.

• Section 11/Disrepair

Act as Onward’s Expert Surveyor and attend Joint Surveys with opposing Solicitors’ Surveyor when needed and complete Scott Schedules when required.

• Partnership Working

Working proactively with the wider business, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver a first-class repairs service.

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What are we looking for?

Essential

• Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of building construction techniques across a wide range of property types and ages.
• Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of best practice survey techniques and the reporting and documenting of survey results.
• A broad understanding of damp to buildings including causation, diagnosis, remediation and long-term management.
• Ability to carry out a range of damp tests utilising tools, appropriate survey equipment and be able to analyse and present the results to a broad audience.
• Experience managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• IT skills ie Microsoft Office, Teams, Housing Management Software
• Used to remote working and the use of mobile survey tools.
• A willingness to investigate with professional curiosity and demonstrate ongoing learning.
• Willing and able to travel using own vehicle across all areas covered by Onward.
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• HHSRS Practitioner
• Experience of acting as an Expert Witness Surveyor under the Housing Disrepair
• Used to reading and creating Scott Schedules.
• Understanding of drafting and reviewing tender documents/contracts.

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across in 52 neighbourhoods across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

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