Maintenance Surveyor
Hybrid role - working from home, our office in Glasgow and our properties across Fife, Edinburgh and Glasgow
Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw)
Salary: £40,000 to £42,000 pa, depending on experience and qualifications, with great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Interviews will be held w/c 4th November 2024
Home, a place where you belong
Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards and ensure the safety and compliance of our properties. If you fancy working alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…
Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor
- Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch covering Fife, Edinburgh and Glasgow, ensuring high-quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.
- 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.
- Ensuring all works carried out meet health and safety standards with zero tolerance taken to non-compliance.
Imagine ending each day knowing you've made a positive impact on our customers' lives. You can do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK!
You have
- Building surveying experience including property condition and dilapidation surveys and specifying remedial works.
- Hold a Building Surveying qualification HND, HNC or Degree Level.
- 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. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
- 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.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!
Job details
- Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.
- This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office at either Glasgow or Edinburgh, others working at home and the rest working in our properties in the Fife, Glasgow and Edinburgh areas.
- You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.
- You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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