Adur Homes Building Surveyor

Adur Homes Building Surveyor
Post No: 44601, 44602, 44603
Salary: Starting from £45,718 to £49,764 per annum
Grade: Grade 8
Hours: 37 hours per week
Place of work: Adur and Worthing Council offices including Commerce Way, The Shoreham Centre and Worthing Town Hall

Closing date:  16th February 2025 
Interviews: TBC

Join Adur Homes Property Services Team as a Building Surveyor where we are recruiting to positions within the team to manage planned maintenance, refurbishments works, major repair work programmes, voids and compliance areas, liaising closely with colleagues, our residents, leaseholders and contractors.

Help us deliver our resident focused approach to all work areas. You will ensure that our works are effectively managed and where applicable, ensuring residents are consulted throughout the process and works are completed to a high quality standard, whilst maintaining high customer satisfaction.

If you have proven experience of managing large scale work programmes as well as adhoc maintenance work, we are looking for:

● Project management experience of planned works and large scale projects within the housing sector
● Customer focused with excellent communication skills
● Housing sector experience within either of the areas of repairs and maintenance and/or compliance related to the Housing sector
● Sound knowledge of building construction and technical issues
● Strong contract management skills including budget reporting and management
● Experience of housing and repairs management information systems
● Providing and managing resident focused services in a housing maintenance capacity

If this sounds like the role you have been looking for, we look forward to receiving your application form!

At Adur & Worthing, we are committed to supporting care leavers, in accordance with the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and the Children and Social Work Act 2017. To that end, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for anyone meeting the essential criteria of the role they are applying for. In order to be considered for this, you will need to be a care leaver under the age of 25 at the time of application. Please confirm that you are a care leaver in the "Showing how you meet the person specification and job description" section of the application form.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of applicants declaring a disability, that meet the essential criteria for this position, will be offered an interview.

Staff are our most important asset and we therefore have a benefit package which reflects our continuing commitment to our employees. This includes:

● Generous leave entitlement; a minimum of 26 days + Bank Holiday entitlement
● Local Government Pension
● Training & development
● Occupational Health
● Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
● Employee resource groups/networks
● Buddy Support Programme
● Flexible working options

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. Staff work in a supportive and safe environment, recognising their responsibility to value and respect each other’s contributions. Standards of conduct must be of the highest level to ensure that no-one is harassed, bullied or victimised. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, staff engagement forums and are keen to hear from applicants from a variety of different backgrounds.

In order to apply for this vacancy please use the Apply Online link below. No CVs or applications from Agencies accepted.