Repairs Surveyor

Repairs Surveyor

**Full Time Salary**
- £38,050

**Employment Type**
- Full time

**Hours Per Week**
- 35

**Region**
- Lancashire

**Location**
- 1a Enterprise Way, Accrington, BB5 0FR

**Contract Type**
- Permanent

**Job Type**
- Property Services

**Closing Date**
- 02/07/2024

**Ref No**
- 2177

**What you can expect from us**
- We offer a competitive salary of **£38,050 per annum**:

- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%)
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

**About the role**

We are seeking to recruit a Repairs Surveyor on a permanent basis to ensure our housing repairs service is delivered to our customers, across our properties and contributes to our overall neighbourhood improvement plans.

This role is a hybrid** **role, with a regular requirement to attend our neighbourhood sites to complete surveys and inspections and meet with customers, as well as attending our Accrington office twice a week for team meetings.
- Inspect empty properties and ensure work is carried out to bring them up to a lettable standard.
- Respond to customer enquires relating to their home that require a face to face visit.
- Listen to customer views, encouraging resident involvement and make recommendations for how the organisation can respond.
- Deal directly with customers who experience problems with contractor performance, take personal responsibility for ensuring satisfactory resolution.
- Provide advice and assistance to customers to help maintain their homes, deal with condensation, fuel poverty etc.

**Contract Management**
- Carry out property defect and repair inspections and appropriate diagnosis.
- Issue orders to contractors including prioritising, cost-coding and estimating.
- Ensure all work is to standard, monitoring and controlling the supervision of work in progress as well as adopting a project management approach to the management of properties requiring major works.
- Monitor spend against budgets, reporting any important differences and take action to keep spend within budget.
- Agree variations to work which are cost efficient.
- Ensure colleagues, contractors and customers comply with health and safety, equal opportunity and other statutory guidelines. Ensure that all contracts are specified, ordered and tendered and payments processed.

As a Repairs Surveyor (Repairs Specialist) you will have the following skills knowledge and experience:

- Knowledge and awareness of related housing regulations/ law
- Experience of contract management and carrying out property inspections
- Experience of delivering face to face customer service
- Experience of developing partnership working with support agencies, local authorities and community groups
- Good understanding of the social, economic and political context in the neighbourhoods in which we operate
- IT skills - Microsoft office to Intermediate level

**Essential**:

- **Educated to HNC/D Building related studies**

**About Onward**

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the organisation.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

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