Technical Surveyor - Poole, United Kingdom - Sovereign Housing

Sovereign Housing

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Poole, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a leading 60,000+ home housing Association,
Sovereign are committed to providing quality, affordable homes, and services within sustainable, successful communities.

We're led by our values and driven by a strong social purpose, placing our customers at the heart of everything we do.

We have an exciting
new opportunity
for a Technical Surveyor
to join our Property Services Team in our Poole Office, covering our South Hampshire & Sussex Locality**.

The role

Reporting into the Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for providing a comprehensive technical surveying service, with a focus on effective delivery of maintenance services.

The role will investigate and provide advice on the resolution of complex maintenance issues such as building disrepair, structural failure, and defect analysis, raised either internally or by our customers.

You'll own the day to day technical advice on design, construction, maintenance, and repair to internal and external stakeholders, inhouse delivery teams and external contractors.

You'll also be responsible for:

Preparing reports, specifications, drawings and contract documents for a range of repair and maintenance construction activity, to include working drawings and detailed cost estimates
Ensuring works are completed safely, to the required standard and specification, in the most effective and efficient manner and to a high level of customer satisfaction
Managing contracts for maintenance works monitoring performance by site visits, liaising and negotiating with contractors, external consultants, and other

professionals to ensure contracts are delivered to time, cost constraints, according to CDM requirements and to quality standards.

Maintaining high quality data within the property systems
Ensuring a detailed local knowledge of customer, asset and investment needs across your locality
Developing own capability through continual personal and professional development to ensure knowledge is kept up to date

What you'll need
To be successful in this role you will need:

Educated to degree level or vocational qualification in relevant construction related discipline
Up to date knowledge and awareness of technical, statutory, regulatory, and legislative requirements, standards, and best practice in relation to delivery of a maintenance service
Ability to prepare and interpret specifications schedules of work using bespoke or National/published Schedule's of Rates/Works.
Ability to plan, track and forecast safe delivery of customer focused services, works and expenditure within agreed timescales and budgets
Ability to operate with commercial acumen
Knowledge of relevant health, safety and environmental legislation with focus on compliance within all activities undertaken
Proficient use of IT Systems including Microsoft office suite with Intermediate Excel skills

There will be some travel involved with this role so you should be happy to travel, have access to a car and a full UK driving licence.

What can we offer you
- £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Industry leading pension scheme, 12% matched contributions plus life cover at 4x your salary
Flexible working we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover
Discounted travel insurance

It's a fantastic time to join us at Sovereign. We have an ambitious corporate plan to deliver an inspiring agenda of change and growth in a sustainable way.

You'll be joining a highly skilled team at the forefront of driving these improvements and we'd love to hear from you to explore your skills and experience further.