Braxfield Recruitment is a specialist recruitment agency working within the property services and social housing sectors. Our client, a Residential Social Landlord, is looking for an experienced Senior Surveyor with a background in high profile complex repairs and major works to join them on a permanent basis.

A bit about the role:

As Senior Surveyor you will be responsible for manging a team of five surveyors, allocating works to them and ensuring those works are being carried out in line with the organisation and residents’ expectations. You will have the technical knowledge to be able to support the surveyors with any queries they escalate and provide coaching or training as necessary. The work will focus on all projects that sit outside of the repairs team and not within any planned works programmes. This will include damp and mould issues, structural works and anything else deemed to be complex or a major works project.

The Senior Surveyor will need to build strong relationships with specialist contractors required to look at solutions to issues highlighted and work closely with colleagues such as the Project Managers and Senior Project Managers as they will ultimately deliver the works scoped out by the surveying team.

Our client would love to see candidates with the following skill set:

• History of working as a surveyor within a Housing Association, Local Authority or Contractor operating within the social housing sector
• Experience of managing a team of surveyors
• Experience of undertaking complex defect diagnosis across building types (including modern methods of construction), building technologies and building services
• Experience of implementing quality systems
• Experience of managing and administrating large and complex contracts delivering high volumes of multidisciplinary repairs to housing, offices and other building types
• Experience of managing planned maintenance and/or major repairs – especially in respect of void works, elemental replacements, etc
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent Computer skills in Microsoft products, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

In return our client can offer:

• A market leading salary
• 35 days annual leave (Including Bank holidays) rising to 40 after 5 years. Option to buy or sell days
• Flexible working, 2-3 days in the office
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave days
• Attractive bonus schemes
• Interest free loan schemes
• Continued Professional development and more!

To summarise:             

If you have a background in Surveying within the sector either with a housing association, local authority or contractor then please submit your CV and one of our consultants will be in touch to discuss the role in more detail. Equally, if after reading this it is not quite what you are looking for, please email your CV to theteam@braxfieldrecruitment.com and we can make you aware of other positions that we have.