Senior Asset Surveyor

VIVO Defence Services; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Car allowance

Life assurance 2x annual salary

6% employee matched pension

Job summary

VIVO Defence Services is seeking a Senior Asset Surveyor to lead field asset surveys across UK sites and support maintenance planning for the Defence estate.

You will personally conduct complex asset identification, verify locations and data, and oversee junior surveyors, ensuring safety and compliance across live sites. The role requires BPSS clearance and national travel; SC clearance may be needed.

Qualifications

• Significant practical experience inspecting, identifying and validating assets on complex operational sites.
• Experience leading or supervising survey activity within regulated estates.
• Technical/asset management qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an asset survey programme across selected sites and verify asset locations.
• Undertake hands-on field surveys and validate complex asset data.
• Supervise and mentor junior surveyors, assigning tasks and checking quality.
• Monitor progress against the survey programme and report risks and issues.
• Collaborate with site teams, customers and DIO to ensure safe surveys.
• Ensure data is accurate and standardized for asset systems.
• Contribute to developing better survey templates and data standards.

Skills

Asset surveying

Team leadership

Fieldwork

Data validation

Clearance knowledge

Education

Asset management qualification or equivalent

HNC/HND or degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

CAFM/CMMS/Asset data platforms

Job description

Who We Are

VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.

What We Do

We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.

Location

Midlands to cover sites across England.

12 month FTC

Salary: £48,000-£50,000

Contract Type: Full Time

You’ll be responsible for delivering an asset survey programme across selected VIVO-managed sites, getting out onto operational sites to identify assets, verify their locations, check existing records, apply asset tags and capture accurate information. Your work will provide the foundations for better maintenance planning, lifecycle management, compliance and future investment decisions.

This is much more than a desk-based data role. You’ll be hands‑on in the field, personally undertaking the more complex surveys and making decisions where asset information is unclear, incomplete or requires technical judgement. At the same time, you’ll supervise and support less experienced surveyors, allocating straightforward and repeatable tasks, providing clear direction and checking the quality of their work.

You’ll monitor progress against the survey programme and keep the Asset Management team informed of delivery, risks, access challenges and any issues requiring intervention. You’ll also work closely with site teams, operational colleagues, technical specialists, customers and DIO representatives to ensure surveys can be completed safely and effectively across a diverse and operational estate.

A major part of the role will be ensuring that the information collected is accurate, consistent and usable. You’ll challenge incomplete, duplicated or inaccurate records, identify gaps in asset information and ensure tagging and data capture are completed in line with agreed standards. You’ll use digital tools, spreadsheets, mobile devices and survey systems to capture information in a structured format ready for asset system updates and further analysis.

You’ll also have the opportunity to help shape how VIVO carries out asset surveys in the future. By identifying recurring issues and opportunities for improvement, you’ll support the development of better survey templates, data standards, checklists and quality assurance processes.

As a senior member of the survey team, you’ll lead by example. You’ll coach and develop junior surveyors, provide constructive feedback and establish consistent standards across the team. You’ll need to combine technical credibility with a calm, practical approach to problem solving, particularly when working within live operational environments where access, safety and site requirements can change.

About You

You’ll have significant practical experience of personally inspecting, identifying and validating assets across complex operational sites, together with experience of leading or supervising survey activity. You’ll understand how important accurate asset information is and will have the attention to detail needed to spot discrepancies, missing information and inconsistencies in existing records.

You’ll ideally have experience working within a Defence, Government, infrastructure, healthcare, utilities or similarly regulated estate, although this is not essential. Experience of asset tagging, asset hierarchies, data assurance or improving asset information would be highly beneficial.

You’ll have a recognised technical, engineering, building services, facilities management or asset management qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience. An HNC, HND or degree in a relevant discipline would be advantageous, as would experience using CAFM, CMMS, mobile survey or asset data platforms.

You’ll need to be comfortable leading a team while remaining actively involved in the survey work yourself. You’ll be organised and methodical, confident managing competing priorities and able to communicate clearly with surveyors, site teams, customers and senior colleagues.

Most importantly, you’ll be practical, technically credible and site focused. You’ll take safety seriously, work professionally in operational environments and be comfortable travelling regularly across the UK Defence estate. You’ll need BPSS clearance as a minimum, with additional clearance where required for specific sites or customer environments.

If you’re looking for a role where your technical knowledge, leadership skills and attention to detail can directly improve the quality of asset information across a major Defence estate, we’d love to hear from you.

This role will require SC Clearance, as well as national travel to sites across England as the business requires.

What We Offer

• 25 days annual leave
• Single private medical cover
• Car allowance
• Life assurance 2x annual salary
• 6% employee matched pension contribution

VIVO Defence Services

The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.

At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Leader. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.