Maintenance Surveyor

Are you a passionate Maintenance Surveyor, seeking a new permanent role, covering the Southwest?
My client has an immediate opportunity for an Area Surveyor to complete property inspections, supporting to maintain and enhance the condition of the property portfolio.
Although predominantly residential, the successful applicant may also be required to inspect shops, offices and hostels.

Responsibilities:

• To complete property inspections for all properties where the organisation has a management responsibility.
• To complete accurate reports on the condition of property stock. Ensuring that relevant legal standards regarding stock condition and safety are maintained.
• To provide accurate property inspection reports on the compliance of the property, ensuring that each building meets the applicable safety standards and contributing to maintaining 100% safety and compliance across the portfolio.
• To be able to rely on sound understanding of compliance/ safety risk so that risk is escalated to Line Manager when required, or to be willing to develop this awareness with support from the Line Manager and open to training where required.
• Ensure recommendations in reports are proportionate and targeted, ensuring applicable standards are achieved within budgetary constraints.
• Attend new sites which have recently on-boarded, completing inspections to establish works required before the property can be let. Ensuring that properties are always ready to let within 21 days of the legal agreement being signed.
• To complete ‘off boarding’ inspections, comparing the condition of the property against the inventory and producing reports to ensure all works that the organisaiton is responsible for are identified and completed before handover and achieving this within the relevant time constraints.
• Review buildings against previous inspections and risk assessments to confirm whether all actions have been completed.
• To work closely with the maintenance team in the process of completing the actions resulting from property inspections.
• To maintain and foster good working relationships with key stakeholders: internal teams, residents and landlords.