Building Surveyor

Our local authority client has a 3-month contract vacancy (with the possibility of extension) for the role of a BUILDING SURVEYOR, details as follows

**Job Purpose**

To join our Property Services team with good knowledge of day to day repairs and relevant experience of diagnosing and managing their delivery. Building Surveyor will carry out a wide range of duties across our varied 3,000+ housing stock, together withour asset portfolio of corporate operational, commercial and community assets. Surveyor will predominantly be attending day to day repairs, updating stock data, evaluating and diagnosing what work is required, assessing the best options to carry out the workand issuing response repairs.

**Essential Requirements**
- Relevant experience and knowledge of general day to day response repairs in a housing or commercial environment.
- Good building construction technology and building pathology knowledge together with the ability to evaluate and diagnose what work is required.
- Must have Practical surveying skills that can be demonstrated; specifically be able to carry out stock data surveys.
- Knowledge and experience of cost control techniques and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness when undertaking cost estimates for larger repair work.
- Relevant knowledge and experience of all Microsoft packages and demonstrate practical IT skills using Excel spreadsheets or Word when writing reports or letters and be capable of using various other software packages.
- Have planning skills and demonstrate the ability to be organised and methodical when undertaking inspections to ensure effective time management.
- Previous experience of working for a Local Authority or housing provider is not essential and you may have a trade background working for a Contractor delivering day to day repairs.

If you have the necessary experience and qualifications to fulfill this role, please submit your CV ASAP.