Total 17 quantity surveyor job vacancies in Maintenance / Repair category in The United States of America

Maintenance Surveyor (Repairs and Voids)

Hybrid role working from home, our office in Harrow and our properties across the Harrow area

Permanent, full time 37.5 hpw

Salary £42,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards of our properties. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch covering the Harrow area. Ensuring high-quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.


• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, sub-contractors and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.


• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.


• Managing any disrepair cases and helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes.


• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.


• Ensuring void re-servicing is carried out to a high standard, enabling re-let as soon as possible.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here. And we really are great, a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK employer in fact! 

You have

• Building surveying experience including property condition and dilapidation surveys and specifying remedial works.


• Hold a Building Surveying qualification HND, HNC or Degree Level.


• Ideally hold RICS, CIOB professional registration or working towards this.


• Current knowledge of building repairs, construction as well as CDM roles and responsibility.


• Able to manage, control budgets and expenditure.


• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!


• A self-starter approach, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch, working commercially to deliver our programmes of work on time and to budget.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you!  Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!   

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.


• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office in Harrow, others working at home and the rest working in our properties in the Harrow area.


• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.


• You’ll need a standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!


• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary


• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!


• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.  Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

Salary: Band 9 - £36,647 - £40,220 p.a.

37 hours per week flexible-working

Permanent

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Maintenance Surveyor to join our repairs and maintenance team with good knowledge of day to day repairs and relevant experience of diagnosing and managing their delivery. Previous experience of working for a Local Authority or housing provider is not essential and you may have a trade background working for a Contractor delivering day to day repairs.

Applicants must be enthusiastic, good communicators, display attention to detail and be keen to develop their building surveying skills. Experience of working with customers of a repairs service, understanding their needs, and managing their expectations is essential.

What is the role?

You will be based at any one of our Area Housing Offices working as part of a Repairs team.

You will carry out a wide range of duties across our varied 15,000 housing stock, together with our asset portfolio of corporate operational, commercial and community assets including schools. You will predominantly be attending day to day repairs, updating stock data, evaluating and diagnosing what work is required, assessing the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs.

Who is the Person?

You need to:

1. Be able to demonstrate sufficient relevant experience and knowledge of general day to day response repairs in a housing or commercial environment.
2. Have good building construction technology and building pathology knowledge together with the ability to evaluate and diagnose what work is required, assess the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs and advising others.
3. Have a knowledge of building related legislation as appropriate to the role and be able to apply as necessary.
4. Have knowledge and experience of construction related health & safety legislation knowledge generally and be able to apply specifically the working at height regulations, and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
5. Practical surveying skills that can be demonstrated; specifically, be able to carry out stock data and measured surveys, accurately recording stock data as appropriate.
6. Demonstrating you can manage a contractor using a contract, negotiating contractual matters and resolution of disputes with contractors.
7. Have knowledge and experience of cost control techniques and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness when undertaking cost estimates for larger repair work, exercise financial control when managing work and assess value for money for work undertaken when auditing completed repairs. Demonstrate analytical skills to be able to interrogate, analyse and evaluate previous repair information.
8. Have relevant knowledge and experience of all Microsoft packages and demonstrate practical IT skills using Excel spreadsheets or Word when writing reports or letters and be capable of using various other software packages with appropriate training to accurately update data as part of undertaking the surveying role.
9. Have planning skills and demonstrate the ability to be organised and methodical when undertaking inspections to ensure effective time management.
10. Have excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and demonstrate the ability to be a good communicator developing relationships with clients and customers, understanding their aspirations, managing expectations and ensuring that excellent communication occurs to ensure that they are fully informed regarding the repairs and maintenance of their assets, particularly as most repairs and maintenance work is undertaken in occupation whilst our residents are living in their homes or commercial buildings are operational.
11. Full driving licence and provide a car for work, as you will be visiting various sites across Portsmouth and will need to travel effectively between them.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

This is an ongoing advert and we will shortlist and assess/interview as & when, and close the advert once we have filled the vacancy.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• A generous pension scheme
• Up to 31 days annual leave per year pro rata + bank holidays
• Flexible / hybrid working
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
• Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Maintenance Surveyor (Repairs and Voids)

Hybrid role - working from home, our office in Newcastle (Strawberry Lane) and our properties across the North-East location

Permanent, full time

Circa £39,000 - £40,000 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards of our properties. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch covering the North-East, ensuring high-quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.


• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.


• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.


• Managing any disrepair cases and helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes.


• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.


• Ensuring void re-servicing is carried out to a high standard, enabling re-let as soon as possible.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working in the top 10 greatest place to work in the UK employer!

You have

• Building surveying experience including property condition and dilapidation surveys and specifying remedial works.


• Hold a Building Surveying qualification HND, HNC or Degree Level.


• Ideally hold RICS, CIOB professional registration or working towards this.


• Current knowledge of building repairs, construction as well as CDM roles and responsibility.


• Able to manage, control budgets and expenditure.


• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!


• A self-starter approach, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch, working commercially to deliver our programmes of work on time and to budget.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you!  Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!   

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.


• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office at Newcastle (Strawberry Lane) others working at home and the rest working in our properties in the North East.


• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.


• You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!


• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary


• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!


• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Job title: x 2 Maintenance Surveyor

Pay rate: £18.50 PAYE | £22.50 Umbrella

Location: North Yorkshire

Contract: Temp, 2 months, 8am-5pm

Job Description:

• Responsible for the supervision of Repair and Maintenance Operatives undertaking responsive repairs to council homes.
• To inspect and order responsive repairs including the specification of materials, empty property repairs and responsive maintenance programmes / contracts and liaise with customers as required.
• Responsible for allocating work to council appointed contractors, monitoring, and signing off work following satisfactory completion.
• Liaise with legal services to establish property boundary ownership and repair liabilities we can be flexible on office location, but the successful appointment needs to be able to be based on one of the main north yorkshire council office hubs: Skipton, Harrogate, Selby, Malton, Scarborough, Northallerton

If this sounds of interest to you, submit your latest CV today! Thanks, Louis at Randstad CPE Leeds

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Maintenance Surveyor Safety and Compliance

Hybrid role - working from home, our office in Portsmouth and our properties across South West & South East

Permanent / full time (37.5 hpw)

Circa £39,000 - £40,000 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously ensure the safety and compliance of our properties. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Managing our Electrical compliance works, including servicing and repairs to ensure our properties meet the legal statutory regulations. Ensuring our customers safety, high-quality work and great customer service.
• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.
• Contract management including progress against schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.
• Managing any disrepair cases and complaints for our customers.
• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.
• Ensuring all works carried out meet health and safety standards with zero tolerance taken to non-compliance.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for the 5th Great Place to Work in the UK!

You have

• NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation (or Equivalent)
• Level 3 Inspection and testing (or Equivalent)
• Current knowledge of building repairs, construction as well as CDM roles and responsibility.
• Able to manage, control budgets and expenditure.
• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
• A self-starter approach, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch, working commercially to deliver our programmes of work on time and to budget.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you!  Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!   

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.
• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office at Portsmouth, others working at home and the rest working in our properties in South & West of London.
• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.
• You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Job Description

DPR has been nationally recognized for its strong company culture, based on a well-defined purpose “We Exist to Build Great Things,” and four core values: integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and ever forward. A flat, title-less organization that empowers people at all levels to make decisions, DPR ranked on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for five consecutive years. For more information, visit http://www.dpr.com.

To project manage and support the delivery of the Disabled Facilities Grant projects from inception to competition. This will be a standalone service sitting within the property services area.

To lead on the delivery of the disabled facilities grants (within the Property Services team), liaising with all stakeholders to ensure the design and build phase is managed in line with the required budget, programme and strategy.

To ensure Property Services provide the overall project management, organisational capability, capacity and stakeholder engagement that is required to successfully deliver the objectives and outcomes required on construction projects.
Acting as deputy to the DFG manager in terms of staff line management, decision maker for all DFG service from type and scale of works, assessing practicability of adaptations, budgetary responsibility, client, and wider contact with members, WG, and other stakeholders.

To act as Project Manager on individual projects, providing advice on specifications, costs and programme. Also meeting with and providing update reports to stakeholders, senior officers and councillors.

Attending meetings and other events as required.

For further information please contact Chris Jones on 01685 725000.

All new applicants are required to complete a 10 hour online Welsh Work Course. You will need to complete parts 1 and 2 of the course and must be able to evidence this prior to starting work with the Authority. For further information on how to complete this course please visit: https://learnwelsh.cymru/

Application forms can be completed online at www.merthyr.gov.uk

If you do not have access to the internet, application forms can be obtained by telephoning 01685 725000 and are to be returned no later than 10.01.2024 to HR Administration, Civic Centre, Castle Street, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN.

Email: Human.ResourcesAdmin@merthyr.gov.uk

Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council encourages applications from Welsh speakers. Application forms may be submitted in Welsh and any applications completed in Welsh will not be treated any less favourably than those submitted in English.

If you are successfully shortlisted for interview please contact human.resourcesadmin@merthyr.gov.uk to let us know if you would like your interview to be conducted through the medium of Welsh.

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.

All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Any breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.

We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.

Maintenance and repairs surveyor needed in Guildford £31ph ref 5242144

Full time hours on a temporary basis

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to beth@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared.

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.

You can also follow us at Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn or via our website www.essentialemploy.co.uk.

Your new company


A social housing provider is looking to add to their team in Chesterfield on a permanent basis.
The official title of the role is Technical & Quality Control Surveyor but the work is essentially that of a technical officer/repairs & maintenance officer.


About the role
- £33,000 - £35,000 plus just under £1,000.00 van/car allowance
- Generous government pension scheme option
- 35p per mile from office to site for visits


Holidays and Working Hours
- 37 hours per week
- Monday to Friday
- 26 days holiday plus bank hols (rising to 31 as years of service increase)


Your new role


- Responsible for the survey, design, planning, co-ordination, and supervision of work on specified repairs, adaptations and programmes of work delivered by the in-house team and those sub-contracted externally.
- Responsible for Quality Assurance on delivered works including providing reports, photographs and information on rectifying any issues with materials, workmanship or matters relating to customer feedback.
- Ensure that all surveys are carried out in a professional manner with excellent customer communication whilst on site and outcomes or decisions to be followed up in writing and recorded on the Open Housing system.
- Ensure the approach to all works support the long-term asset investment and housing management strategies of the Company.
- Promote the use of alternative materials whilst supporting innovation through the recommendation of new and alternative construction methods


What you'll need to succeed


- Have a thorough knowledge of building construction, materials, components, methods, and defects.
- Understanding of the Housing Health & Safety Rating System (HHSRS).
- Adaptation/disabilities inspection and Building Regulation requirements.
- Extensive post qualification experience in the construction industry
- Have experience of budget monitoring in terms of ordering repairs which represent value for money
- Evidence of training in relation to the Housing Health & Safety Rating System (HHSRS)
- Evidence of training in terms of property Damp and methods used in remediation.
- Evidence of training in relation to the CDM Regulations
- Evidence of training in respect of the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP)
- Ability to produce technical drawings.
- Keyboard and ICT skills
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, inclusive of specification development and costing.


What you'll get in return


- 26 days holiday plus bank hols (rising to 31 as years of service increase)
- Option to purchase extra leave
- Flexi time


Health & Wellbeing Benefits
- Opportunity to help the local community and really make a difference to people's lives
- Excellent Health and Wellbeing support
- Family friendly policies (maternity/paternity/carer leave etc.)


Career Development
- Great opportunities for learning & development and career progression


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Maintenance Surveyor needed in Stevenage Paying £21.50 per hr ref 0008 39CB /1

Full time hours on a temporary basis

• Responsible for pre/post-inspection and reports for responsive repairs, void works and cyclical repairs within the relevant area of operation, consulting and engaging with customers, leaseholders and with internal and external stakeholders in the region.
• Ensure the highest customer standards of delivery are achieved, minimal defects, and a high level of customer satisfaction is achieved.
• Effectively managing the performance and on site progress of Contractors ensuring that works are delivered on time, to a regional budget of £10m, to quality standards and achieve value for money in line with all relevant statutory regulations and compliance

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to verity@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared

A client within the Public Sector based in the Northeast is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Surveyor to join their team as soon as possible. The client is offering a full-time position on a fixed-term basis with the ideal candidate having experience of working within a local authority within a housing environment.

The Role

Key purpose of the role is to ensure effective delivery of the repairs & voids maintenance service,

ensuring works orders are correctly processed and progressed within agreed time scales.

Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Monitor quality standards and handle complex repair cases, including major repairs and insurance claims.
• Attend properties to carry out pre and post inspections and assess damage/disrepair; establish cause and determine responsibility.
• Undertake full house surveys following damp & Mould, disrepair or high volume of repairs, ensuring each case is managed through to completion and all data is accurately recorded.

The Candidate

To be considered for this role you will require a HNC Building or equivalent, or qualified through experience and attained or working towards a technical qualification - maintenance / construction.

The below skills would be essential for the role:

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use.
• Numeracy and literacy skills essential. IT literacy, as well as the ability to use company operational software.
• Strong and demonstrable contract, performance and budget management knowledge / skills

The client is looking to move quickly with this role and as such are offering £25.57 per hour Umbrella LTD Inside IR35.

How to Apply

If this position sounds of interest, email a copy of your up-to-date CV to amy.dhawan@servicecare.org.uk or call Amy at Service Care Construction on 01772 208967 to discuss the vacancy in more detail.

Also, if this role is not of interest to you, but you are looking for new opportunities, please still get in touch as we cover all construction-related vacancies across the region.

Referral Bonus

If this role is not suitable for yourself, but you know someone who may be interested, please pass on their details, or forward these details to them. If they are successful in applying, you will receive a £250 referral bonus upon completion of an initial probationary period.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Full Time 36.5 hrs

Our university

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. We‘re top 10 in The Complete University Guide 2024 and consistently placed in the top 15 in major UK league tables.

Lancaster University has been awarded five stars for performance in a prestigious new QS World Rankings. The evaluation features five-star ratings for each category – teaching, employability, internationalisation, research, facilities, subject ranking and environmental impact.

Our beautiful 560-acre campus is one of our greatest assets and manages to provide the best of both worlds for our students and staff, having a busy urban vibe, while surrounded by green parkland and sports facilities.

The award-winning Facilities team operate across campus to maintain and develop the estate, provide commercial and visitor services and ensure vital student support services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Find out more at www.lancaster.ac.uk/facilities

Our team

We are looking to appoint a full time Building Surveyor to join our Facilities Estate Operations Team.

The post-holder will have operational technical authority on all building fabric related compliance and maintenance matters, delivering life cycle replacement condition surveys, adaptation and refurbishment projects, and management of appointed contractors across the University estate.

What you will need

A proactive, customer focused attitude to service.

A suitable degree or BTEC/SQA Higher National Award / NVQ Level 4, in a you will have comprehensive, relevant knowledge and experience of building construction, project management, and associated construction contracts.

You will be AutoCAD proficient and have a working knowledge of The CDM Regulations 2015, construction health and safety, The Building Safety Act 2022, The Equality Act 2010, and BS 8300 relating to accessibility legislation and best practice guidance.

Benefits

This role offers the post-holder the opportunity to join the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) via salary sacrifice. All staff are eligible to participate in the University’s sector leading flexible benefits scheme including salary sacrifice childcare vouchers, bicycle to work scheme, travel season tickets, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan, sports centre membership, vocational training courses.

The University can support combined home / onsite working arrangements providing that required campus commitments take precedence.

For more information about the role please see the job description and person specification. For an informal chat about the role please contact Gary Tootle, Assistant Director of Estate Operations at g.tootle@lancaster.ac.uk.

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Repairs and Voids Surveyor

Working from home, our office in Port Solent and our properties across Chichester, Portsmouth, Guildford and Leatherhead

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Salary circa £37,000 is negotiable based on skills and experience, plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan, plus get paid for your mileage!

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards of our properties. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

A typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch covering Chichester, Portsmouth, and Guildford, ensuring high-quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.


• Ordering required works from our partner contractor Novus, ensuring we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.


• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.


• Helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes, by managing disrepair cases.


• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.


• Ensuring void works are carried out to a high standard, allowing us to re-let as soon as possible.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a Top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK!

You have

• Building surveying experience including property condition and dilapidation surveys and specifying remedial works.


• Hold a Building Surveying qualification HND, HNC or Degree Level.


• Current knowledge of building repairs, construction as well as CDM roles and responsibility.


• The ability to manage, control budgets and expenditure.


• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!


• You're a self starter, handling your area brilliantly on your own, making sure our projects are on time and within budget


• It would be nice if you hold RICS, CIOB professional registration, but they are not deal breakers!

Our team

You’ll join Scott and our South West Maintenance team. We’re really proud of the work we do and look to continue to provide a safe place for our customers to live. We’re a supportive bunch and like to be involved with community days for our customers but are there for each other too, and do make sure we get together as a tea, socially whenever we can!

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.


• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office at Port Solent, others working at home and the rest working in our properties in Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex covering Chichester, Portsmouth, and Guildford.


• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.


• You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays and a me day to take off for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39 days. You can also buy 5 more and take time off for volunteering too!


• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary


• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!


• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

Salary: Band 9 - £34,722 - £38,295 p.a.

37 hours per week flexible-working

Permanent

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Maintenance Surveyor to join our repairs and maintenance team with good knowledge of day to day repairs and relevant experience of diagnosing and managing their delivery. Previous experience of working for a Local Authority or housing provider is not essential and you may have a trade background working for a Contractor delivering day to day repairs.

Applicants must be enthusiastic, good communicators, display attention to detail and be keen to develop their building surveying skills. Experience of working with customers of a repairs service, understanding their needs, and managing their expectations is essential.

What is the role?

You will be based at any one of our Area Housing Offices working as part of a Repairs team.

You will carry out a wide range of duties across our varied 15,000 housing stock, together with our asset portfolio of corporate operational, commercial and community assets including schools. You will predominantly be attending day to day repairs, updating stock data, evaluating and diagnosing what work is required, assessing the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs.

Who is the Person?

You need to:

1. Be able to demonstrate sufficient relevant experience and knowledge of general day to day response repairs in a housing or commercial environment.
2. Have good building construction technology and building pathology knowledge together with the ability to evaluate and diagnose what work is required, assess the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs and advising others.
3. Have a knowledge of building related legislation as appropriate to the role and be able to apply as necessary.
4. Have knowledge and experience of construction related health & safety legislation knowledge generally and be able to apply specifically the working at height regulations, and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
5. Practical surveying skills that can be demonstrated; specifically, be able to carry out stock data and measured surveys, accurately recording stock data as appropriate.
6. Demonstrating you can manage a contractor using a contract, negotiating contractual matters and resolution of disputes with contractors.
7. Have knowledge and experience of cost control techniques and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness when undertaking cost estimates for larger repair work, exercise financial control when managing work and assess value for money for work undertaken when auditing completed repairs. Demonstrate analytical skills to be able to interrogate, analyse and evaluate previous repair information.
8. Have relevant knowledge and experience of all Microsoft packages and demonstrate practical IT skills using Excel spreadsheets or Word when writing reports or letters and be capable of using various other software packages with appropriate training to accurately update data as part of undertaking the surveying role.
9. Have planning skills and demonstrate the ability to be organised and methodical when undertaking inspections to ensure effective time management.
10. Have excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and demonstrate the ability to be a good communicator developing relationships with clients and customers, understanding their aspirations, managing expectations and ensuring that excellent communication occurs to ensure that they are fully informed regarding the repairs and maintenance of their assets, particularly as most repairs and maintenance work is undertaken in occupation whilst our residents are living in their homes or commercial buildings are operational.
11. Full driving licence and provide a car for work, as you will be visiting various sites across Portsmouth and will need to travel effectively between them.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

This is an ongoing advert and we will shortlist and assess/interview as & when, and close the advert once we have filled the vacancy.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• A generous pension scheme
• Up to 31 days annual leave per year pro rata + bank holidays
• Flexible / hybrid working
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
• Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Maintenance Project Surveyor

Peterborough

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Circa £38,750 per annum plus great benefits including health cash plan

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Project Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards of our properties through planned maintenance works. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

A typical day as Maintenance Project Surveyor

• You’ll provide predictable, reliable and consistent outcomes to all Home Group customers, colleagues and stakeholders, with day-to-day accountability for quality control on planned maintenance works.


• Providing in house technical support, problem solving and advice on specifications and standards. You’ll ensure planned maintenance works are completed on time, to budget and specifications.


• Regular site inspections of works carried out in our customers homes to check quality, standards, health and safety checks, taking any corrective actions.


• Ensuring stock conditioning information is current and accurate to informed planned works programmes now and in the future.


• You’ll work in our Central South team, predominately looking after a patch of properties in Peterborough and surrounding areas.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working in the top 10 Great Places to Work in the UK employers!

You have

• RICS or CIOB accredited, with a Building Surveying degree or similar qualification. Or strong equivalent professional experience.


• Experience of working as a tradesperson, Clerk of Works, Surveyor or other similar technical property maintenance role with a current knowledge of building construction, repairs and safety.


• A competent knowledge of relevant and current, codes of practice, building regulations, health and safety legislation, standards and materials.


• A commercial mindset, being curious and confident to challenge spend and quality of works, keeping programmes of work delivered on time and within budget. You'll be a self-starter, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch.


• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!

Our team

You’ll join Mark, our Maintenance Contract Manager and our South-Central Maintenance team who are super passionate about what they do. They are a supportive bunch, working collaboratively to provide quality homes and safe places to live for our customers.

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.


• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office, others working at home and the majority working in our properties in Peterborough and surrounding areas.


• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.


• You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!


• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary


• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!


• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Project Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme