Maintenance Specification Surveyor

Home Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Leave entitlement

Discounts and wellbeing perks

Flexible working

Job summary

Home Group is seeking a Maintenance Specification Surveyor to work with the Maintenance Contracts Manager, shaping standards and using NBS Chorus to create a robust library of specifications.

You’ll be responsible for redesigning specifications, collaborating across development and delivery, and bringing lessons learned into new projects, ensuring quality, compliance and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• HNC, HND or Degree in Surveying or a Construction-related discipline
• Strong knowledge of repairs, maintenance, and building regulations.
• Experience of drafting or reviewing specifications and working confidently with contracts, and technical information.
• Confidence to build relationships, influence decisions and constructively challenge ideas.
• Clear communication skills for explaining complex requirements to different audiences.
• Experience of NBS Chorus or a comparable specification platform would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Review and redesign maintenance specifications to make them clear, consistent, practical and future focused.
• Work in close partnership with the Maintenance Contracts Manager and colleagues across development, delivery and planned maintenance.
• Develop and manage a robust, group-wide library of specifications using NBS Chorus.
• Bring maintenance requirements and lessons learned into new projects, products and delivery models at an earlier stage.
• Champion standardisation that improves quality, compliance, and the customer experience.
• Use your judgement to challenge outdated approaches and recommend better, longer-lasting solutions.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Problem solving

Contract knowledge

Education

HNC/HND/Degree in Surveying or related

Tools

NBS Chorus

Job description

Salary up to £48,000 per annum plus health cash plan

Home, a place where you belong

As our Maintenance Specification Surveyor, you’ll work closely with the Maintenance Contracts Manager, combining your technical knowledge and practical maintenance experience to create clear, consistent specifications that help colleagues and contractors deliver safe, high-quality work right first time.

You’ll have the scope to shape standards across Home Group, bring maintenance thinking into projects before work starts, and challenge the repeat problems that affect our customers and homes.

What you’ll do

• Review and redesign maintenance specifications to make them clear, consistent, practical and future focused.
• Work in close partnership with the Maintenance Contracts Manager and colleagues across development, delivery and planned maintenance.
• Develop and manage a robust, group-wide library of specifications using NBS Chorus.
• Bring maintenance requirements and lessons learned into new projects, products and delivery models at an earlier stage.
• Champion standardisation that improves quality, compliance, and the customer experience.
• Use your judgement to challenge outdated approaches and recommend better, longer-lasting solutions.

This role could suit a technical surveyor, specification writer, repairs professional or planned maintenance specialist who wants broader influence while working as part of a supportive team. The role offers genuine ownership, broad exposure across the organisation and the chance to see your technical expertise translated into better homes and services. Be part of one of the UK’s Great Places to Work!

You have

• HNC, HND or Degree in Surveying or a Construction-related discipline
• Strong knowledge of repairs, maintenance, and building regulations.
• Experience of drafting or reviewing specifications and working confidently with contracts, and technical information.
• Confidence to build relationships, influence decisions and constructively challenge ideas.
• Clear communication skills for explaining complex requirements to different audiences.
• Experience of NBS Chorus or a comparable specification platform would be useful.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• We typically work on a hybrid basis with time in our Newcastle office and from home.

What’s in it for you?

• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a “me day”). The option to buy 5 more each year
• 800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more
• Top 20 in the UK for Wellbeing
• Work your way with flexibility to balance life and work
• Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support

Finally

For reasonable adjustments email [e-mail].