Property Surveyor

I am working with an excellent housing provider who are looking for an experienced Property Surveyor to work in their London regional projects team supporting in the diagnosis and management of minor works, insurance cases and legal disrepair claims. Thiswould also include other non-routine repairs diagnosis and building faults to find a satisfactory resolution for our residents whilst being mindful of budgets. You will manage your own workload to diagnose and manage property defects, disrepair and complicatedor larger pieces of work including ad hoc planned replacements.

Experience working in Disrepair and a knowledge of Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act are essential.

**What you'll need to succeed**:
It is essential you have a proven track record of delivering complex repairs, with a working knowledge of Schedule of rates and ability to carry out building diagnostics. This role requires people and financial management experience along with excellentbuilding diagnostic skills. While your experience, skills and track record are an absolute requirement, they are secondary in this role to your commitment, curiosity and genuine passion for fixing buildings first time.

**Main duties**:

- Deal with all aspects of building maintenance and defects including post inspection and managing follow on work.
- Contribute with the development of works and provide technical support/advice.
- Contribute, as a member of the Property Team, to corporate objectives and continual business improvement.
- Review Home Improvement requests.
- Assist when there are works affecting party wall or work requests from leaseholders.
- Working to deliver our requirements within our responsibilities under tenure type agreements, policies and legal definitions - e.g General needs, Shared ownership and Leaseholders all have different requirements and may have different obligations. Thiswould also include managing agents.
- Assist the team in all technical aspects of building design and defects.
- Make decisions regarding recommendation of work to the Planned team or to carry out ad hoc replacements.
- Feed-back on defective components to ensure design changes for future programs.
- Liaise with the Voids team to inspect and agree specifications of work in accordance with the housing associations Lettings Standards.
- Assist with decisions, inspection and determinations around adaptation requests from customers and leaseholders.
- Manage leaseholder and third-party enquiries
- Investigate complaints and serious incidents ensuring the relevant systems are updated.
- Consider any budget implications in order to ensure spend is allocated appropriately to the correct budget to mitigate risk of overspend and recovery via a Section 20 process.
- Work alongside Property colleagues to contribute to the development of learning framework to build capability of front-line colleagues in relation to property diagnosis and management of repairs.

**Salary**:
£43,500 - £45,000

**Office Location**:
Southgate

Please contact Erin Allsworth at Reed with an updated CV to discuss further.