Desktop Building Surveyor

Ageas; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

35 days holiday

Health Insurance

Pension Scheme

Employee Savings

Return to work programme

Car Salary Exchange

Job summary

Ageas is seeking a Desktop Building Surveyor to ensure technical accuracy in building repair scopes, variation orders and final accounts within our Home Claims Repair Network. You will work with repair contractors, claims teams and stakeholders to raise standards and deliver fair customer outcomes.

You will provide technical support to home claims colleagues, resolving building-related queries and ensuring cash settlements are underpinned by robust building knowledge.

Qualifications

• Strong background in building surveying or related fields required.
• Ability to assess repair scopes, costs and methodologies with high technical accuracy.
• Confident communicator who can challenge contractors and influence stakeholders.
• Experience coaching others to improve technical standards and quality.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate building repair scopes, variation orders, and final accounts for technical accuracy and compliance.
• Challenge repair contractors to improve scoping quality and ensure right-first-time outcomes.
• Monitor accuracy of repair scopes across the network and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance on building pathology, repair methods and claim scoping to home claims colleagues.
• Support contractor audits, schedule of rates reviews, and governance activities to ensure fair outcomes and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Building surveying

Building pathology

Reinstatement scoping

Cost control

Stakeholder management

Coaching others

Analytical thinking

Job description

Job Title: Desktop Building Surveyor
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Range: Up to £50,000 dependent on experience
Location: Home worker, with ad hoc travel to Ageas offices where required
Closing Date for applications: Thursday 19th November

Desktop Building Surveyor: We’re looking for a Desktop Building Surveyor to play a keyrole in ensuring the technical accuracy of building repair scopes, variationorders, and final accounts across our Home Claims Building Repair Network.

Working closely with repair contractors, claims teams, andoperational stakeholders, you’ll drive continuous improvement in scopingstandards while ensuring repairs are completed in line with technical andregulatory requirements. Strong communication and stakeholder management skillsare essential, as you’ll need the confidence to challenge repair contractorswhen required and coach others towards best practice.

Alongside this, you’ll provide technical support to homeclaims colleagues, helping resolve building-related claim queries and ensuringcash settlement decisions are underpinned by robust building expertise. You’llbe joining a team committed to delivering fair outcomes for customers whilecontinuously improving standards across the repair network.

Main Responsibilities as Desktop Building Surveyor

• Reviewand validate building repair scopes, variation orders, and final accounts,ensuring technical accuracy, cost control, and compliance with agreedstandards.
• Challengeand influence repair contractors to improve scoping quality, promote bestpractice, and achieve right-first-time outcomes
• Monitorrepair scope accuracy across the Building Repair Network, identifyingtrends and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Actas a technical referral point for home claims colleagues, providing expertguidance on building pathology, repair methodology, and claim scopingqueries.
• Supportcontractor audits, schedule of rates reviews, and governance activities toensure fair customer outcomes and regulatory compliance.

Skills and experience you need as Desktop Building Surveyor

• Strongbackground in building surveying, building pathology, reinstatementscoping, or home insurance building claims.
• Provenability to assess building repair scopes, costs, and repair methodologieswith a high level of technical accuracy.
• Confidentcommunicator with the ability to challenge, influence, and build effectiverelationships with contractors and internal stakeholders.
• Experiencecoaching or guiding others to improve technical standards, quality, andconsistency of work.
• Stronganalytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail and acommitment to delivering fair customer outcomes.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental InsuranceHealth Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Returnto work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter ,member of iCAN and GAIN .As a Disability Confident Leader ,we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience.If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone .

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about Ageas, see About Us .