Housing Maintenance Surveyor

Central Bedfordshire Council; England; Hybride; GBP 35 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A local government authority in England seeks a Maintenance Manager to oversee the Void Maintenance of over 5000 council-owned homes. In this role, you will manage contractors, inspect properties, and ensure high standards of service and quality. You should have either relevant qualifications or substantial experience in maintenance, particularly in social housing, and a solid understanding of project and budget management. This hybrid, permanent position offers a chance to significantly impact the community's living quality.

Qualifications

• HND or degree qualified or relevant experience in maintenance.
• Experience managing capital and revenue works in social housing.
• Ability to manage workloads to defined timescales.

Responsabilités

• Oversee Void Maintenance of 5000+ council-owned homes.
• Inspect properties to prioritize repairs and project manage rectification.
• Plan, prepare, and manage revenue and capital works programmes.
• Supervise contractors and ensure high on-site delivery standards.
• Conduct surveys and diagnostic assessments of properties.

Connaissances

Project management

Budget management

Inspection and assessment

Contractor supervision

Understanding of housing procurement

Formation

HND or degree in relevant field

Description du poste

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.

Contract: Hybrid - Permanent

Closing Date: 15th February 2025

Interview Date: TBC

About the role:

In this role you will work as part of our busy Maintenance team, creating the best place to live for our residents by overseeing the Void Maintenance of Central Bedfordshire’s 5000+ Council owned homes. This role is to inspect, and project manage the rectification of properties. You will carry out inspections of homes to prioritise repairs (major/minor), adaptation and improvement work.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for;

• The health, safety, and condition of council owned dwellings by identification through inspection of void properties, and analysis of defects leading to project managing cost effective works to time, quality and budget.
• The planning, preparation, procurement, delivery and management of revenue and capital works programmes to time, budget and quality from inception to completion.
• Management, administration, procurement and supervision of contractors delivering inspection, risk assessment, renovation, servicing and maintenance to council owned property.
• Taking part as required in emergency planning.
• Carrying out surveys and inspections of council owned property to diagnose repair defects and order effective remedial works. Prepare strategies, reports, and feasibility studies into specific related subjects.
• Occasional desktop diagnosis of customer repair enquiries offering effective remedial works to reduce the number of site inspections of council owned property completed by colleagues.
• Working with CBC’s Contractors, placing orders for remedial works to void properties, managing the works & monitoring from start to completion, revenue and capital budget monitoring, attending contractor meetings and occasionally supporting other teams with surveying tasks.

The role will be to ensure that on site delivery standards are high; achieving value for money and customer satisfaction and will involve extensive liaison with external contractors including budget management, design, agreement of specifications, procurement, contract administration, financial monitoring, Stock Condition / HHSRS surveys, building pathology and interaction with tenants and leaseholders.

You will be HND or degree qualified, or, alternatively have relevant experience in an appropriate profession. You will have some experience of manging capital and revenue works ideally in a social housing environment, with an understanding of housing, procurement, project management and budget management. The ideal person would be able to manage their own workloads, often to defined timescales, on a range of projects.