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Maintenance Surveyor

Job Description

A client within the public sector based in Cumbria is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Surveyor to join their team as soon as possible. The client is offering a full time, contract position with the ideal candidate having experience of working within a housing environment.

The Role

Key purpose of the role is to challenge spend and quality of works, keeping projects and programmes of work to be delivered on time and within budget.

Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch covering North Lakes, ensuring high-quality work.
  • Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.
  • Contract management including progress against building works schedules.
  • Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.
  • Managing any disrepair cases and helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes. Accurately measuring materials to enable a 'right first time' approach.
  • Ensuring void re-servicing is carried out to a high standard, enabling re-let as soon as possible

The Candidate

To be considered for this role you will require Building surveying experience including property condition and dilapidation surveys and specifying remedial works. Hold a Building Surveying qualification HND, HNC or Degree Level.

It will be essential to be in experiences in the below:

  • Current knowledge of building repairs, construction as well as CDM roles and responsibility.
  • Able to manage, control budgets and expenditure.
  • A vehicle insured for business purposes.
  • A self-starter approach, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch, working commercially to deliver our programmes of work on time and to budget.

The client is looking to move quickly with this role and as such are offering £20 p/h PAYE (approx. £600 p/w)

How to Apply

If this position sounds of interest, email a copy of your up-to-date CV to amy.dhawan@servicecare.org.uk or call Amy at Service Care Construction on 01772 208967 to discuss the vacancy in more detail.

Also, if this role is not of interest to you, but you are looking for new opportunities, please still get in touch as we cover all construction-related vacancies across the region.

Referral Bonus

If this role is not suitable for yourself, but you know someone who may be interested, please pass on their details, or forward these details to them. If they are successful in applying, you will receive a £250 referral bonus upon completion of an initial probationary period.