Building Surveyor (Part-Time) - Gloucestershire

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service; England; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading organization at Westonbirt National Arboretum in a Building Surveying role to oversee the maintenance and improvement of historically significant buildings. This position involves working with a small team on various projects aimed at achieving sustainability goals and managing contractors efficiently. Candidates should have relevant experience and educational qualifications in Building Surveying.

Benefits

Balanced working arrangements

Access to online learning

Professional training and development opportunities

Contributory pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave policies

Childcare benefits

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in building surveying or similar role.
• Understanding of building health and safety regulations.
• Proficient in managing utility services efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing maintenance of buildings and infrastructure.
• Planning and supervising reactive maintenance works.
• Improving financial and environmental sustainability efforts towards net-zero.

Skills

Building pathology

Defect diagnosis

Specification writing

Communication

Budget management

Contract management

Health and safety oversight

Education

Degree in Building Surveying

Progress towards chartered status (MRICS / MCIOB)

Job description

Your new company
How does working across a Grade 1 historic landscape and internationally important tree collection sound to you?
Joining the team at Westonbirt National Arboretum will provide exactly this opportunity. This site includes almost 40 built assets and infrastructure supporting a vision in education, participation, and conservation.
Several buildings are tenanted which includes the restaurant, shop, and three houses. There are a number of architectural styles and unusual buildings including heritage buildings from the 1850's, multiple timber frames including the community shelter, and a number of award-winning buildings including the Welcome Building, build in 2014 and awarded BREEAM 'Excellent', and the award-winning Wolfson Tree Management Centre.

Your new role
Your day-to-day job will be varied and will include overseeing and organising maintenance of the existing buildings, procuring and supervising contractors to ensure that the built estate is maintained and enhanced. Joining a small capital development team will mean that you'll work closely with a programme manager, project manager, and works supervisor. You will lead on planning, delivery, and supervision of estates planned and reactive maintenance work. This includes delivering projects to help achieve net-zero by 2040.

• Plan, procure, implement, and monitor programmes of work including planned and reactive maintenance to a high standard ensuring compliance with statutory regulations.
• Active communication with different teams to co-ordinate works.
• Deliver professional building management across the estate including the management of utilities and services by the most efficient means.
• Administer contracts using NEC4 forms of contract.
• Improve financial and environmental sustainability working towards Net Zero.
• Support capital investment team with ongoing works, which could include business case development.
• Keep project and asset records up to date on GIS Forester Web and on SharePoint.
• Regularly monitor contractor health and safety.

What you'll need to succeed

• Previous experience working in a similar Building Surveying or equivalent role (planning, supervising and instruction of maintenance, or development works).
• Proficient knowledge in building pathology, defect diagnosis, specification writing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of forecasting and managing budgets for capital and revenue works.
• Procure and contract manage building works contracts.
• Understanding building health and safety, overseeing contractors and statutory compliance.
• Either achieved, or making progress towards chartered status (MRICS / MCIOB).
• Degree in Building Surveying or equivalent construction related profession.

What you'll get in return
A role with Forestry England isn't just about the salary! Learn more about Forestry England - Welcome | Forestry England | Hays UK

• Salary (pro-rata x 3 days per week) - £23,418 (pro-rata)
• Annual Leave - 111 hours of annual leave available per year (pro-rata)

A role with Forestry England will provide and offer a wide range of benefits to include:

• Balanced and blended working arrangements.
• Access to extensive online learning.
• BPD events, professional training, and development.
• Contributory pension scheme that you may enter as soon as you join, where employer makes 27% contribution, and where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken.
• Shared parental leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, enhanced adoption leave, and more.
• Childcare benefits.
• Bike to work scheme, employee assistance programme, dedicated wellbeing team and more.

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