Back

Maintenance Surveyor United Kingdom

Clarion Housing Group

Full Time United Kingdom 40248 - 50728 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Salary: £40,248 to £50,728 per annum

Hours: 36 per week

Contract Type: Fixed term contract until 31st March 2024

Location: Hybrid working - office base Penge, Hawthorn Centre

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Surveyor to join our team in Penge, Hawthorn Centre office and to cover the local region.

Clarion Housing Group is the UK’s largest provider of affordable housing with 125,000 homes nationwide. We are committed to playing our part in tackling the housing crisis, both as a social landlord and developer of new housing.

The Repairs & Maintenance Team oversee the delivery of our in-house and external repair service, ensuring providers deliver the service to Clarion’s customer standards and operate within the agreed price per property or price per void cost model. The team manages the complex repair programme, ensuring environmental health notices and legal disrepair cases are well managed to conclusion, and the business risks are minimised.

We’re looking for a Maintenance Surveyor to carry out pre & post-inspection and create reports for responsive repairs, void works and cyclical repairs. You’ll be the face of Clarion for our customers, delivering the highest levels of customer satisfaction and managing the performance and progress of our Contractors ensuring that quality works are delivered on time, with minimal defects, to a regional budget of £16m, all within relevant statutory regulations and compliance.

We’ll look to you to deliver a professional surveying service including overseeing major and complex disrepair works, responsive repairs, voids and aids & adaptations, carrying out diagnostic inspections, surveys & technical reports and providing accurate technical advice with competent and thorough surveys.

You’ll identify and manage insurance claims including property inspections and managing decants, liaising with loss adjusters and the insurance team, and you’ll be the technical lead during the handover of any new developments.

Other responsibilities include:

Effective and efficient control budgetary spend of approx. £2m
Review invoices and requests for payment from contractors, challenging and resolving submissions
Deliver and effectively manage legal disrepair claims and Environmental Health Orders and provide detailed reports
Ensure effective liaison with in-house service provider, M&E contractors and external sub-contractor staff to ensure the delivery of a top quartile service
Management and coordination of empty properties to ensure minimal rental loss and maximum return.

You’ll need a good knowledge of the Social Housing Sector and awareness of its regulations and a demonstrable knowledge of building construction, building and regulatory standards, planning regulations, health & safety and other legislation relevant to asset management.

Preferably you’ll hold a recognised qualification in a property related discipline such as a Diploma in Surveying, Property and Maintenance Level 3.

We’re seeking a surveyor with experience of financial management and controls within a contractor management and day to day repairs delivery, and knowledge of effective professional surveying service.

If you have excellent communications skills, and are capable of liaising with residents, contractors and other stakeholders, we very much look forward to hearing from you.

What you can expect from us

Here at Clarion we’re dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle.

As standard we offer:-

A range of equipment issued to you to enable you to conduct professional surveys, alongside IT equipment for agile working.
Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
Initial 25 Days annual leave (plus bank holiday), increasing to 30 days after 3 years’ service.
A flexible benefit scheme tailored to you, inclusive of healthcare options, dental insurance, restaurant card and cycle to work along with 1% of your salary to spend on whichever approved benefit you like!
Matched pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary with generous life assurance
Flexible and agile working for the majority of our employees.

Other perks:

Company Bonus Scheme
Eye care vouchers
Holiday trading scheme allowing you to buy and sell leave
Free counselling and legal advice scheme for you and your family
Interest free loans for season ticket and study leave

Our commitment to equality and diversity means that we are keen to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, including but not limited to part-time working and job share, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and compassionate leave.

Closing Date: Wednesday 23rd August 2023 at midnight.

For further details on this vacancy and to download the role profile

Applicants must have a driving licence and be able to travel across regions as required.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in the UK for the duration of your employment.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want Clarion to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We’re committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Clarion an inclusive place to work.

Post Jobs Online Apply Job