Technical Surveyor

Join our Property Services Team, as Technical Surveyor, reporting to the Operations Manager

The role

You'll be responsible for providing a comprehensive technical surveying service, with a focus on effective delivery of maintenance services. The role will investigate and provide advice on the resolution of complex maintenance issues such as building disrepair, structural failure, and defect analysis, raised either internally or by our customers. You'll own the day to day technical advice on design, construction, maintenance, and repair to internal and external stakeholders, inhouse delivery teams and external contractors.

You'll also be responsible for:

• Providing technical surveying services, focusing on maintenance.
• Advising on complex maintenance issues such as building disrepair, structural failure, and defect analysis.
• Offering technical advice on design, construction, maintenance, and repair.
• Preparing reports, specifications, drawings, and contract documents.
• Ensuring safe, efficient completion of works to high customer satisfaction.
• Managing maintenance contracts, monitoring performance, and liaising with contractors.
• Maintaining high-quality data within property systems.
• Keeping updated on local customer, asset, and investment needs.
• Continual personal and professional development.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Vocational qualification/HND or equivalent in relevant construction related discipline or proven experience.
• Up to date knowledge and awareness of technical, statutory, regulatory, and legislative requirements, standards, and best practice in relation to delivery of a maintenance service 
• Ability to prepare and interpret specifications schedules of work using bespoke or National/published Schedule's of Rates/Works.
• Ability to plan, track and forecast safe delivery of customer focused services, works and expenditure within agreed timescales and budgets
• Ability to operate with commercial acumen
• Knowledge of relevant health, safety and environmental legislation with focus on compliance within all activities undertaken 
• Proficient use of IT Systems including Microsoft office suite with Intermediate Excel skills

There will be some travel involved with this role so you should be happy to travel, have access to a car and a full UK driving licence.

Benefits

• • £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme
  • 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (increasing to 30 days)
  • Industry-leading pension scheme, 12% matched contributions plus life cover at 4x salary
  • Flexible working options
  • Private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover options
  • Competitive call out and mileage allowances
  • Discounted travel insurance

About Us

At Sovereign Network Group, we provide quality, affordable homes and make a real difference in people's lives. Recently merged with Network Homes, we now manage over 84,000 homes, making us the sixth largest housing association in the country. Join us and be part of a team driving ambitious change and growth.

Interested? We'd love to hear from you!