Role Title: Empty Homes Assistant Surveyor
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Salary: £28,138-£35,172 per annum plus £2272 car allowance per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)
Contract: Permanent
You’ll be assisting in the delivery of an effective surveying function across our property portfolio. This will predominantly relate to empty homes but may also include other aspects of property maintenance such as major works, responsive repairs, planned works, refurbishment, fire management, servicing, cyclical redecorations, estate improvements, environmental, energy, newbuild and regeneration.
An awareness of legislation relating to health and safety, the housing health and the safety rating system (HHSRS), Regulatory Reform Order (RRO 2005), Planning, Building Control and housing repairs is essential.
We support agile working, so you’ll be provided all IT equipment to work flexibly between your home, and our Dartford office and out on sites.
Who are we?
We’re one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spreading across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future. Our purpose is to “open doors to better lives for our customers”. We thrive to be customer pioneers; providing a great customer experience.
We are also proud to announce that we have been awarded an accreditation for ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work’ 2024, based on our employee feedback.
Your key tasks will include:
• Assisting in the provision of technical support to Moat and its customers, conduct property surveys, diagnose defects.
• Helping design and specify works, obtain estimates, oversee delivery, monitor project expenditure and complete sign-off.
• Acting as contract administrator or other role as appropriate and use standard forms of contract to administer the works.
• Overseeing quality control and supervision for each contract, ensuring adequate provision is made on site for building legislation and health & safety requirements.
• Undertaking inspections and audits of the contractors, servicing maintenance contract and defects within homes. Reviewing completed work against the schedule/contractors’ invoices and resolving issues as necessary.
• Providing management reports and schedules of defects when necessary and certify rectification of snagging items.
• Investigating and resolving any CRM tasks, enquires or complaints raised by customers relating to projects or services provided by Moat.
• Providing out of hours cover on a rota basis, as required
• Keeping accurate records and manage all data in accordance with our Data Governance Framework, relevant legislation, and best practice. You must also understand and fulfil your responsibilities as set out in this framework.
You’ll have:
• Good standard of education.
• An awareness of legislation relating to health and safety, the housing health and the safety rating system (HHSRS), Regulatory Reform Order (RRO 2005), Planning, Building Control and housing repairs.
• Competent intermediate use of spread-sheets.
• An awareness of asset management data bases and their role.
• An awareness of processes relating to new developments.
• An ability to undertake work outside of normal office hours to meet the needs of the business and emergencies.
To view the full job description, please click here: https://shorturl.at/G851L
In return, you’ll receive:
A range of benefits. For more info, check out our employee benefits video here: Our employee benefits: what we can offer you (youtube.com)
Want to know more about Moat?
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Twitter: @moathomes
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Interested in applying? We want to hear from you!
If interested, please apply by 11pm on Sunday 17 November 2024
We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the advert before this date if we receive good interest. We're looking forward to reading your application!
Please note we will no longer be accepting CV’s as part of the recruitment process. All candidates must now complete an application form on our career’s website.
Please note this role is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) which means that if you are successful, we will have to obtain a disclosure and barring service check before confirming the offer of employment with you.
If you require any additional adjustments to the recruitment process, please email peopleservices@moat.co.uk
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