Area Maintenance Surveyor

**Area Maintenance Surveyor**

**Oxford**

**Salary - £33,100-£41,300 (+ £750 Car Allowance) per annum - depending on skills and experience.**

**Contract type - Permanent**

**Working hours - Full Time**

**Closing Date - 24 November 2023**

**Interview Date - TBC
**About the role**

You will provide technical solutions and programmes of work to address responsive repairs, void property repairs and projects across a defined geographical area. It involves understanding the business requirements and resident's requests and ensuring works are properly specified and delivered.

You will be completing property repairs and maintenance forms a key part of our contract with residents, the post holder must provide the right level of property maintenance to protect a buildings asset value and ensure repairs are undertaken right first time. A high level of resident satisfaction has been built up in the business and the role includes maintaining and improving on it.

You will be part of a key asset management role, crosscutting with colleagues in Planned Maintenance and Housing, with responsibility for the work managed hitting KPI targets. There are specific overall requirements to meet the regulatory and health and safety requirements around the service, including the Decent Homes Standard and most recently Housing health and safety rating system.

**About you**

You will have a professional qualification or equivalent experience in a maintenance, construction field.

You will have a fundamental knowledge of the construction industry in general, and field of Quantity Surveying/Project Management/ Building Surveying in particular.

You must have experience of procurement best practice and of procuring contracts and managing external contractors and suppliers.

You will have experience of delivering servicing works programmes, tendering, and using schedule of rates.

You will have BTEC, HND/HNC or equivalent ability or vocabulary, verbal reasoning, and numerical skills to the equivalent ability level.

You must have innovative, creative, and able to demonstrate drive and determination.

You will have experience of procurement best practice and of procuring contracts and managing external contractors and suppliers.

You must have the ability to work in a cross-cutting role collaborating with other services and teams.

You will be diplomatic and persuasive, ability to resolve conflict and influence people.

**About us**

GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England.

We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.

We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.

**Our purpose**

We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently.

Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that's providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life.

Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen.

**The GSA Way**

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.

A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.

Our five core commitments are:

- We believe our customer is everything
- We are one team
- We are supportive and caring
- We are business-minded for social purpose
- We are curious and ambitious.

You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.

**Benefits**

In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
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