Maintenance Surveyor - Property Repairs

Sovereign Network Group; Blandford Forum; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 12%

Life cover 4x salary

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Sovereign Network Group in Dorset is seeking a Maintenance Surveyor to join our Property Services Team covering our Dorset Locality. You’ll investigate, diagnose and resolve day-to-day maintenance issues, and lead on technical support for in-house trades and external contractors.

The role requires inspections, preparing specifications and budgets, ensuring safe, high-quality work, and maintaining accurate data in property systems.

Qualifications

• Up-to-date knowledge of technical, regulatory, and legislative requirements for maintenance delivery.
• Ability to prepare and interpret specifications and schedules of work (SP/SORs).
• Plan, track and forecast safe delivery of customer-focused services within budgets.
• Operate with commercial acumen and stakeholder awareness.
• Proficient IT skills, including Microsoft Office with intermediate Excel; willing to travel.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose and solve day-to-day maintenance issues.
• Own day-to-day technical support for locality for in-house trades and external contractors.
• Carry out inspections before, during and after repairs.
• Provide specifications with scope, quantities, budgets and timescales to resolve issues.
• Ensure works are safe, meet standards, and deliver high customer satisfaction.
• Maintain high-quality data within property systems.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Specifications & SORs

Budgeting & forecasting

IT skills (Microsoft Office)

Travel & driving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Salary: £42,000.00 - £49,000.00 Per year

As a leading Housing Association, SNG's purpose is simple - providing good, affordable homes: the foundation for a better life. We have a strong ambition to build 25,000 more homes over the next 10 years, with at least half being for social or affordable rent. It's a great time to join us as we invest in our existing customers' homes by applying our Homes and Place Standard to all our properties, whilst working in a environment where your health and safety is important to ensure you and your colleagues stay safe and well, everywhere, every day.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Surveyor to join our Property Services Team covering our Dorset Locality.

The role

Reporting into the Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for the investigation, identification, diagnosis and problem solving of day to day general maintenance issues raised either internally or by our customers.

You'll own the day to day technical support for your locality, allowing our in house trades delivery teams and external contractors to carry works required at first visit.

You'll also be responsible for:

• Carrying out inspections as needed prior to, during and on completion of repairs
• Providing a specification, including scope of works, quantities and budgeted costs and timescale that will resolve maintenance issues reported
• Ensuring works are completed safely, to the required standard and specification, in the most effective and efficient manner and to a high level of customer satisfaction
• Maintaining high quality data within the property systems
• Ensuring a detailed local knowledge of customer, asset and investment needs across your locality
• Developing own capability through continual personal and professional development to ensure knowledge is kept up to date

What you'll need

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Up to date knowledge and awareness of technical, statutory, regulatory, and legislative requirements, standards, and best practice in relation to delivery of a maintenance service inc damp and mould and Awaabs Law.
• Ability to prepare and interpret specifications schedules of work using bespoke or National/published Schedule's of Rates/Works.
• Ability to plan, track and forecast safe delivery of customer focused services, works and expenditure within agreed timescales and budgets
• Ability to operate with commercial acumen
• Knowledge of relevant health, safety and environmental legislation with focus on compliance within all activities undertaken
• Proficient use of IT Systems including Microsoft office suite with Intermediate Excel skills
• There will be some travel involved with this role across your locality so you should be happy to travel, have access to a car and a full UK driving licence.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.

Please note a Basic DBS check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

Our purpose is to provide good, affordable homes that are the foundation for a better life - and our vision is thriving communities, over generations.

We provide over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London, the South East, South West and East of England, as well as aiming to create thousands of new affordable homes every year.

Working for us is so much more than just a job. Whatever your role, you'll help us provide homes and services for those who need them - and make a real difference to people’s lives