Site Surveyor

ENGINEERINGUK; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Surveyor to join their Living Space Responsive team in the Huntingdon area. This exciting role focuses on producing commercial outputs and effectively monitoring cost control while liaising with clients to ensure compliance with service standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in the social housing sector, strong financial and commercial awareness, and excellent communication skills. Join a company with a proud legacy in the built environment, committed to creating sustainable, inclusive, and thriving places for people.

Qualifications

• Experience in social housing sector is ideal.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Produce Applications, Accounts & Invoices in a timely manner.
• Monitor costs and ensure compliance with service standards.
• Assist in producing management information and performance reports.

Skills

Financial Awareness

Commercial Awareness

Customer Service

Communication Skills

Legislation Understanding

Education

Relevant Degree or Qualification

Job description

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Employer: Wates Group
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 1 May 2025

The Vacancy

Here at Wates, we have an opportunity for a Site Surveyor to join our Living Space Responsive team in the Northampton/Huntingdon area.

The focus of this role will be to produce the commercial outputs and effectively monitor/exercise cost control, as well as to liaise with client representatives to ensure compliance with contractual service standards ensuring the company operates efficiently and profitably.

Working within the responsive team, you will be involved in projects within the social housing/local authorities/councils market, so we are ideally looking for you to have previous experience in that remit.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Producing Applications, Accounts & Invoices in the appropriate format in a timely manner.
2. Ensuring all costs incurred in the delivery of the service are appropriately coded, recorded, authorized, and recovered.
3. Assisting in the production of management information and performance reports (internal and external) monthly in approved formats.
4. Keeping commercial WIP and debt to an absolute minimum and in line with targets set by management.
5. Ensuring the timely production of valuations leading to invoice production within 9 calendar days of works completion.
6. Providing support and enhancing communication between WLS and the client.

We are looking for someone with financial and commercial awareness and a clear commitment to a customer-centered service. Ideally, you will already be in a similar position and have experience within the social housing sector.

To be successful in this role, you will be an excellent written and verbal communicator with an understanding of legislation in maintenance and property management.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building, and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:
Thriving places: working with customers, partners, and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet: protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people: creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognized as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favorably due to an offending background.