Area Maintenance Surveyor - #1665368

A regional affordable housing provider are seeking an experienced Maintenance Surveyor to join their property services team.

The Maintenance Surveyor will be reporting directly into the Head of Property and be responsible for delivering an effective maintenance service to the organisations tenants and housing stock as well as working with external contractors.

This is to support the ongoing proactive approach to ensure our high standards of housing. The successful incumbent will be responsible for completing property surveys including damp and mould inspections and diagnosis.

You will have excellent knowledge of Health & safety legislation as well up to date knowledge of all current statutory compliance regulations (asbestos, legionella, gas, electrical, fire safety)

Core duties will be to:

• Carry out responsive repair & voids inspections pre- and post-works inspections to ensure the right work is completed to a high standard that meets the customers’ needs
• Manage responsive and major works relating to damp and mould projects, service contracts from inception to completion in accordance with current legislation, including managing health and safety (CDM) and ensuring compliance with regulatory controls.
• Performance management of the contractor delivering the repairs and planned works projects/contracts. Monitor contractors to ensure delivery of the programme according to set timescales, analysing data and reporting on performance against an agreed suite of key performance indicators on a monthly basis. Monitor and support the need on compliance and performance of the fire risk assessments and water/electrical/gas/lifts testing programmes.
• Make technical decisions in relation and following property visits, creating work schedules on void properties, design/specification & contract management, quality control and one-off project management.
• Deliver high levels of resident satisfaction, ensuring effective communication and that works are meeting the groups legal standards, obligatory responsibilities
• Ensure works are supervised and managed effectively and that the quality and cost of works carried out are controlled.
• Ensure works are delivered to a high standard and in line with statutory requirements and key performance indicators.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone from an affordable housing Property background or a similar industry, to add real value to an organisation with ambitious growth plans and be a key influencer in its future success.

You will ideally have a minimum further education qualification (HNC / HND / Degree) and / or relevant construction, maintenance or building related professional qualification.

You will also preferably have experience of working within a busy Maintenance / Property team working alongside a team of fellow surveyors and have experience of managing compliance issues and a sound knowledge of contract administration, Damp and Mould and building contract law and legislation.

TristoneNash is working as an employment agency on behalf of a client.