Building Surveyor

Blue Octopus; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing provider seeks a Building Surveyor to oversee project delivery within a small team, ensuring quality service and compliance. The ideal candidate will have strong customer focus, experience in capital investment programmes, and an understanding of relevant regulations. Join the mission to provide quality homes and services to those in need.

Qualifications

• Experience with customer complaints and familiarity with Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code.
• Proven experience in delivering large scale programmes of Capital Investment.
• Understanding of 'Decent Homes' requirements and HHSRS.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the delivery of responsive/void, grounds maintenance, planned investment, and major works programmes.
• Investigate and resolve construction/building related defects.
• Contribute to performance reports and attend performance reviews.

Skills

Customer focus

Complaint resolution

CDM compliance

Project management

Education

HND or equivalent in construction, housing, management, or property

Tools

Housing management systems

Job description

Here at Stonewater, we are now looking for a Building Surveyor (known internally as Partnering Surveyor) to work in a small team of surveyors, taking responsibility for the delivery of responsive/void, grounds maintenance, planned investment and major works programmes.

Ensuring all projects/work is undertaken in a safe and CDM compliant manner, you will instil and maintain long-term relationships with our key supply chain partners in delivering programmes of planned investment, major repair projects and responsive maintenance to create a seamless service with shared values. You’ll contribute to performance reports and attend performance reviews with our partners to enable feedback and proactive actions on team delivery and efficiency and investigate and resolve construction/building related defects to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction is maintained.

The ideal candidate will:

• Ideally be educated to HND level or have an equivalent professional qualification in construction, housing, management, or property.
• Be highly personable with a strong customer focus.
• Have experience of dealing with complaints, customer queries and familiar with the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code.
• Be computer literate and have some experience of housing management systems.
• Have proven experience of operating long-term partnering contracts.
• Have proven experience of delivering large scale programmes of Capital Investment component works on time and to budget, across a wide geographical area.
• Have proven experience of delivering a responsive/void/service charge maintenance service.
• Be fully understanding of CDM compliance.
• Have a good understanding of ‘Decent Homes’ requirements and HHSRS.
• Committed to CPD and keeping up to date with best practice and changes in legislation.

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.