Maintenance Surveyor

CIH International Housing Group; Mamhilad; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Monmouthshire Housing Association (MHA) is seeking to provide a responsive and flexible repairs and maintenance service to tenants and leaseholders. The role requires diagnosing and remedying disrepair, particularly damp and mould, via inspections to ensure high quality aligned with housing management regulations and service standards.

The post involves delivering minor/medium value works projects, providing technical advice to MHA's Building Services Team and Housing & Communities colleagues,

Job description

The Vacancy

Provide a responsive and flexible repairs and maintenance service to MHA tenants and leaseholders.

• Diagnose and remedy disrepair (particularly damp and mould) via inspections ensuring a high quality service based on relevant housing management regulations and service standards
• Effectively delivery (and/or support the delivery of) minor/medium value works projects including diagnosis, specification writing, ensuring value for money and effective contractor management resulting from reactive repairs, ad-hoc major works, voids, planned maintenance and improvements.
• Provide technical advice, support and guidance to MHA's in house Building Services Team and to Housing and Communities colleagues
• Manage the void process to include pre-void and void inspections and specification writing using SOR's to ascertain and cost works required.
• To deal with alteration requests, boundary disputes and party wall issues
• Provide out of hours cover as Duty Officer on a rota basis to support our emergency responsive repairservice.

The Company

Monmouthshire Housing Association (MHA) is a Welsh registered social landlord, located in the beautiful county of Monmouthshire.

We have nearly 250 staff and manage and maintain around 3910 homes and 210 leasehold properties, as well as large numbers of garages and other land around and within our estates.

What we do

We build quality affordable homes and provide a wide range of services to our tenants, which include repairs & maintenance, tenancy management, money & benefits advice, and housing support.

Our vision is to create thriving communities where tenants can prosper and have a brilliant quality of life, so our customers are absolutely at the centre of everything we do.

In the last year we have created modern, 'innovative' homes using advanced building techniques with a Standard Assessment Procedure.

MHA is a great place to work where we really focus on getting great people into great jobs and providing them with the support and direction to achieve our ambitions.