Area Maintenance Surveyor

Wiltshire Council; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Wiltshire Council is seeking an Area Maintenance Surveyor to join the Asset Maintenance Team. You will inspect homes, diagnose defects and ensure safe, compliant repairs and planned works across a defined property patch.

You’ll work with tenants, contractors and colleagues, providing technical reports and guidance while using Microsoft Office and asset systems to track information. This hybrid role combines on-site and office time.

Qualifications

• Experience in building repairs, maintenance, surveying, refurbishment or contract management.
• Ability to produce clear technical reports for residents, colleagues and contractors.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office and housing asset systems.

Responsibilities

• Inspect homes, carry out inspections and surveys for defects.
• Diagnose defects and specify remedial works for repairs and maintenance.
• Manage delivery of repairs, damp and mould works, and voids.
• Monitor contractor performance, quality and costs; support asset programmes.

Skills

Building repairs

Maintenance surveying

Contract management

Microsoft Office

Housing asset systems

Tools

Housing asset systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Salary: £39,862 - £41,771 per annum

Hours per week: 37 hours

Interview date: Week commencing 21 September 2026

Help us make a real difference to our residents. We're looking for a proactive Area Maintenance Surveyor to join our Asset Maintenance Team and help keep our social housing homes safe, compliant and fit for the future.

This is an exciting time to join Wiltshire Council as we invest in our housing stock, improve energy efficiency and deliver ambitious programmes of repair, maintenance and improvement work across our homes. You'll manage a patch of properties, carrying out inspections and surveys, diagnosing defects, and ensuring the successful delivery of responsive repairs, damp and mould works, void repairs, disrepair cases and planned maintenance programmes. You'll inspect homes for HHSRS hazards, specify remedial works and ensure all activities are delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Working closely with tenants, colleagues and contractors, you'll provide technical advice, monitor contractor performance, manage quality and costs, and help shape longer‑term investment and asset improvement programmes. You'll undertake stock condition surveys, identify maintenance priorities and contribute to improving the quality, sustainability and compliance of our homes. You'll have experience in building repairs, maintenance, surveying, refurbishment or contract management, ideally within a social housing environment. You'll be confident diagnosing building defects, using your professional judgement to manage competing priorities and deliver effective solutions.

You’ll be an effective communicator with strong customer service skills, able to produce clear technical reports and explain property‑related issues to residents, colleagues and contractors. You’ll also be confident using Microsoft Office and housing asset management systems to record, analyse and report information accurately.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career, influence housing standards, and help deliver safe, high‑quality homes for our residents. If you're passionate about housing and property maintenance, we'd love to hear from you.

Why us?

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Find out more about Our Identity, staff networks, and employee benefits here.

Our hybrid working model means office staff are on site for at least half their hours, community‑based staff carry out at least half their admin time in a workplace, and customer‑facing roles work entirely from their service location.

We are committed to creating a workplace where positive relationships thrive and everyone feels engaged, supported and able to do their best. We do not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect, guided by our vision and Our Identity.

Contact details

Shell Bryant, Head of Housing management, at [e-mail]

Wiltshire Council does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate details from recruitment agencies that are not appointed under a current, valid contract or approved supplier arrangement (including through our neutral vendor, Comensura).

Submission of unsolicited CVs or candidate details to the Council, whether directly or to individual employees, will not be considered as an introduction and will not create any obligation on the Council to pay any fees. If a candidate whose details have been submitted speculatively is subsequently appointed through a compliant route, no agency fee will be payable in respect of the unsolicited submission.

Agencies wishing to work with the Council must do so only via our approved procurement processes and neutral vendor arrangements.

Application criteria

We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services.

Statement of commitment to equality and inclusion

Disability Confident Employer

Application process