Maintenance Surveyor

6 months ago


Exeter, United Kingdom Sovereign Housing Full time

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 **opportunity** for a **Maintenance Surveyor** to join our Property Services Team in our Exeter Hub **covering our East Devon** **Locality**.

**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.



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