Asbestos Surveyor

**About The Role**:
Are you an experienced Asbestos Surveyor? Are you looking for a new challenge within a growing organisation that makes a real difference to people's lives? If so, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced Asbestos Surveyor to support our Surveying team based in the **Cornwall **area.

On a day to day basis, you will be undertaking a mix of Management, Refurbishment and Demolition Surveys in our properties to enable LiveWest to meet its legal requirements. This will include but not limited to a mixture of single and multiple room surveys, roof and job specific surveys as well as full property management surveys.

You will arrange and visit customers in their homes across a substantial geographical area for which a company vehicle will be provided.

You will be providing an essential service to ensure that our properties are compliant, therefore, the main focus for this role is to provide a high quality level of service.

This is being offered on a **full time**, **permanent** basis and will be field based across the **Cornwall** **area.

To be considered for the role of Asbestos Surveyor, you will have:

- BOHS P402.
- BOHS P405. (D)
- CIOB/CIH/RICS equivalent qualification in property surveying. (D)
- Good level of literacy and numeracy.
- Experience of undertaking refurbishment and demolition and management surveys.
- Domestic dwelling surveying experience from a technical perspective, demonstrating significant understanding of the built environment.
- Clear and demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety and Asbestos legislation pertaining to the construction industry including HHSRS.
- Practical experience of working in the construction industry and or in the social housing sector. (D)
- Experience of undertaking property surveys working on a similar level within an RSL, local or public authority, or private practice.
- Full understanding of the Decent Homes Standard as well as the Housing Health & Safety Rating System. (D)

**About The Company**:
**Our Reward and Benefits**:

- Defined Contribution pension scheme - employer contribution of 6% - 9%.
- Discretionary Bonus scheme.
- Death in Service benefit (3 x salary).
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days plus an option to purchase extra annual leave.
- Family Friendly policies.
- Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Car Benefit scheme.
- Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support.
- Volunteering days.

**About Us**:
LiveWest provides over 40,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.

As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.

As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please click here.