Stock Condition Surveying Manager

About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of social housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services to around 140,000 customers nationwide. Of our 65,000 homes, more than 70% are let at a social or affordable rent, while around 10,000 are owned or part-owned by the people who live in them.

Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

About the role

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a Stock Condition Surveying Manager to join the Guinness Team. This is a permanent, full-time vacancy which is based in either our London or Oldham office. We are currently working to a hybrid working style, working 2 days per week in the office and 3 from home. As such, it is a requirement for candidates to be able to work 2 days per week from either location mentioned above.

The overall purpose of the role is to devise, implement, manage and validate a rolling annual programme of property surveys in order to provide robust information for the formulation of stock reinvestment programmes, actions arising from risk assessments and for financial planning purposes.

What we’re looking for

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do, so you’ll not only be highly self-motivated with the rigour to pursue goals, but you’ll also be a confident collaborator, networker and relationship builder with a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done.

You’ll be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• Good technical building knowledge and familiarity with the features and lifecycle issues associated with different construction types and materials.
• Significant experience of property surveying techniques and methodologies.
• Good knowledge of energy efficiency and carbon saving measures for housing.
• Good knowledge of Decent Homes legislation & HHSRS.
• Ability to undertake assessments of property in line with standard approaches.
• Strong data literacy and familiarity with techniques used to quality assure stock condition data.
• Experience of writing clear and concise reports.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Excellent knowledge of housing and asset management systems, mobile devices and Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable:

• Experience of working within the Social Housing Sector and in particular the collection and management of property condition data.
• Experience of communicating technical information to non specialists.
• Previous line management experience, ideally with a geographically dispersed team.

Essential qualifications:

• Level 6 (Degree or equivalent) in Surveying or Construction & Building Environment.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.