Asset Surveyor - 12 month fixed term contract

Aster Group Ltd.; United States; Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing programme

Career development

Pension + life assurance

Volunteer hours

Discounts and offers

Enhanced leave

Employee recognition

Job summary

Aster Group is seeking an Asset Surveyor to maintain the quality, safety and sustainability of its housing portfolio. The role covers stock condition surveys, energy assessments, and retrofit assessments to drive maintenance and energy efficiency programmes.

You will hold an HNC in Construction or related Built Environment field and at least two qualifications such as DEA or Retrofit Assessor. The role is hybrid and Hampshire-based with occasional travel across the wider region.

Qualifications

• HNC in Construction, Design, Architecture or a related Built Environment discipline.
• At least two of the following: DEA, Retrofit Assessor, or experience with HHSRS and Decent Homes surveys.

Responsibilities

• Carry out stock condition surveys, validations, and property inspections across our housing portfolio.
• Collect, identify, measure, and record building attributes to maintain accurate asset information.
• Undertake Energy Performance Assessments and calculate SAP ratings, ensuring compliance with current legislation and retrofit assessments to support energy efficiency.
• Identify HHSRS hazards and recommend remedial actions.
• Update and maintain stock condition, planned maintenance, and energy management databases.
• Produce floor plans and supporting property information for transactions.
• Monitor property condition and provide technical advice relating to defects, structural issues, and permissions.
• Liaise with insurers, loss adjusters, and contractors after incidents such as flooding or fire.
• Compile reports and provide recommendations to support asset management and investment planning.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data accuracy

Report writing

Communication

Driving licence

Education

HNC in Construction/Design/Architecture

Accredited Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA)

Accredited Retrofit Assessor

Job description

Are you an experienced property professional with a passion for surveying, building performance, and improving homes? We're looking for an Asset Surveyor to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract to play a key role in maintaining the quality, safety, and sustainability of our housing portfolio. In this varied and rewarding role, you'll undertake stock condition surveys, energy assessments, and retrofit assessments, providing essential data that drives investment decisions, planned maintenance programmes, and energy efficiency improvements. You'll work across a diverse range of residential properties, ensuring our asset information remains accurate, compliant, and fit for the future.

Responsibilities

• Carry out stock condition surveys, validations, and property inspections across our housing portfolio.
• Collect, identify, measure, and record building attributes to maintain accurate asset information.
• Undertake Energy Performance Assessments and calculate SAP ratings, ensuring compliance with current legislation and complete Retrofit Assessments to support energy efficiency and decarbonisation programmes.
• Identify Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) hazards and recommend appropriate remedial actions.
• Update and maintain stock condition, planned maintenance, and energy management databases with accurate survey information.
• Produce floor plans and supporting property information for Right to Buy, Right to Acquire, staircasing, and home ownership transactions.
• Monitor property condition and provide technical advice relating to defects, structural issues, tenant permissions, and remedial works.
• Liaise with insurers, loss adjusters, and contractors following incidents such as flooding, fire, subsidence, and other insured events.
• Compile reports and provide professional recommendations to support asset management and investment planning.

You will bring to the role a HNC in Construction, Design, Architecture, or a related Built Environment discipline.

You will hold at least two of the following:

• Accredited Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA).
• Accredited Retrofit Assessor.
• Experience in carrying out surveys and assessing Housing Health and Safety Rating System(HHSRS) and Decent Homes

You will have a strong knowledge of residential construction and property maintenance, with experience of surveying occupied residential properties. You'll consider yourself to have excellent attention to detail and data accuracy, with a strong report-writing style. You will be a great communicator, with the ability to make strong working relationships. You'll have confidence working with surveying, asset management, and energy management systems. This is considered a hybrid role, so when you are not out and about you will be able to base yourself from home if you wish. You will be suitably based for this predominately Hampshire based role, noting that you may be required to travel within the wider operating region from time to time. You will hold a full UK driving licence and will have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

All offers of employment are subject to the successful candidate providing proof of their right to work in the UK. Aster Group and its subsidiary brands do not hold a sponsor licence and are therefore unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Candidates with experience of: Asset Surveyor, Property Surveyor, Building Surveyor, Stock Condition Surveyor, Housing Surveyor, Property Asset Surveyor, Residential Surveyor, Building Condition Surveyor, Housing Asset Surveyor, may also be considered for this role.