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**

Building Surveyor is required to visit properties, both domestic and non-domestic, liaise with occupants, diagnose issues and raise repairs to contractor. Also to carry out compliance checks and condition surveys on various assets.

**Essential Requirements**
- Sufficient relevant experience and knowledge of general day to day response repairs in a housing or commercial environment.
- Have good building construction technology and building pathology knowledge together with the ability to evaluate and diagnose what work is required, assess the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs and advising others.
- Practical surveying skills that can be demonstrated; specifically be able to carry out stock data and measured surveys, accurately recording stock data as appropriate.
- Demonstrating you can manage a contractor using a contract, negotiating contractual matters and resolution of disputes with contractors.
- Knowledge and experience of cost control techniques and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness when undertaking cost estimates for larger repair work, exercise financial control when managing work and assess value for money for work undertaken whenauditing completed repairs. Demonstrate analytical skills to be able to interrogate, analyse and evaluate previous repair information
- 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 with appropriate training to accuratelyupdate data as part of undertaking the surveying role.

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