Senior Surveyor

Braxfield Recruitment Limited; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Surveyor to manage a team and handle complex housing projects in Buckinghamshire. The ideal candidate will have management experience, ideally hold a RICS Qualification, and have a background in social housing. The role offers a salary of circa £58,000 and a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Supportive working culture

Impact on housing quality

Qualifications

• Skilled surveyor with management experience.
• Experience with complex defect diagnosis across various building types.
• Experience managing teams and complex contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of two or three surveyors.
• Allocate works and ensure quality standards are met.
• Support and coach surveyors with technical knowledge.

Skills

Management experience

Maintenance knowledge

Void management expertise

Damp and mould diagnosis

Excellent communication skills

Education

RICS Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Surveyor

Salary: Circa £58,000

Location: Buckinghamshire

Contract: 12 month FTC

Braxfield Recruitment is a specialist recruitment agency working within property services and we are currently working in partnership with a Leading housing provider to recruit a talented and motivated Building Surveyor to join their team initially on a 12 FTC basis.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled surveyor with management experience as well as expertise in maintenance, void management, and damp and mould diagnosis, to play a key role in maintaining safe, sustainable, and high‑quality homes for residents.

The Role:

• As Senior Surveyor you will be responsible for managing a team of two or three other surveyors.
• Allocating works to them and ensuring those works are being carried out in line with the organisation and residents expectations.
• You will have the technical knowledge to be able to support the surveyors with any queries they enforce and provide coaching or training as necessary.
• The work will focus on all projects that sit outside of the repairs team and not within any planned works programmes. This will include damp and mould issues, structural works and anything else deemed to be complex or a major works project.
• The Senior Surveyor will need to build strong relationships with specialist contractors required to look at solutions to issues highlighted and work closely with colleagues such as the Project Managers and Senior Project Managers as they will ultimately deliver the works scoped out by the surveying team.

About you:

• Ideally hold a RICS Qualification.
• History of working as a surveyor within a Housing Association, Local Authority or Contractor operating within the social housing sector.
• Experience of managing a team of surveyors.
• Experience of undertaking complex defect diagnosis across building types (including modern methods of construction), building technologies and building services.
• Experience of implementing quality systems.
• Experience of managing and administrating large and complex contracts delivering high volumes of multidisciplinary repairs to housing, offices and other building types.
• Experience of managing planned maintenance and/or major repairs especially in respect of void works, elemental replacements, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft products, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

What s on Offer

• Competitive salary: Circa £58,000
• 12 month FTC initially potential for the role to extend or become permanent.
• A supportive, inclusive, and purpose‑driven working culture.
• The opportunity to directly impact housing quality and resident satisfaction across London.

To summarise:

If you have a background in Surveying within the sector either with a housing association, local authority or contractor then please submit your CV and one of our consultants will be in touch to discuss the role in more detail. Equally, if after reading this it is not quite what you are looking for, please email your CV to (url removed) and we can make you aware of other positions that we have.