Maintenance Surveyor - Hampshire, United Kingdom - Sovereign Housing

Sovereign Housing

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Hampshire, 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 Maintenance Surveyor
to join our Property Services Team in our Poole Office, covering our South Hampshire and Sussex Locality **on a 12 month fixed term basis.

The role

Reporting into the Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for the investigation, identification, diagnosis and problem solving of day to maintenance issues raised either internally or by our customers.

You'll own the day to day technical support for your locality, allowing our in house trades delivery teams and external contractors to carry works required at first visit.

You'll also be responsible for:

Carrying out inspections as needed prior to, during and on completion of repairs
Providing a specification, including scope of works, quantities and budgeted costs and timescale that will resolve maintenance issues reported
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
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:

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.