Maintenance Surveyor
6 months ago
**Maintenance Surveyor**
- ** £37,585**:
- **37 hours per week**:
- ** Home-based with travel to Magna sites.**:
- ** Permanent Role.**:
**At Magna our vision is to create great homes together. Magna have ambitious plans and we are seeking creative, aspirational and talented people to work with us**
**The role & what you take care of**:
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working in close collaboration with trades colleagues as one team. The role encompasses a diverse and rewarding working routine, with great benefits.
- You will assist in diagnosing complex repairs, ensuring our customers are at the heart of what we do. You will help us achieve this by specifying and raising works, working closely with our trade’s teams, ensuring repairs requested embody our right service, right time, first time ethos and are value for money.
- You will manage enquiries from customers, external agencies, customer contact centre and other departments relating to technical and buildings matters. You will occasionally select and manage the performance of sub-contractors and work closely with Trade Team Managers to achieve the organisational performance standards.
**What you need to be successful**:
You will be motivated to work to a high standard without supervision, with a polite and approachable way about you and wiliness to learn / work with our IT and equipment systems.
- You will have a construction industry qualification or proven ability & experience, preferably HND/HNC in Construction or Built Environment together with responsive repairs experience.
- You will have a good level of Health and Safety knowledge and preferably understanding and qualifications in Asbestos Awareness.
- You will have experience of construction from inception through to completion, understanding of building defects, knowledge of materials and working methods; you will have the ability to produce detailed specifications and guidance to rectify defects.
**You must be able to travel independently to and from Magna sites on a regular basis - Access to a vehicle and a full driving licence is essential**.**
Applicants with transferrable qualities are encouraged to apply.
**Magna Benefits**:
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
**We offer**:
- 25 days holiday (rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service)
- Pension matched up to 8%
- Employee assistance & health care cash plan
- Learning and development
- Discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping
- Wellbeing portal
- Colleague Voice
Our full range of Magna benefits can be viewed on our company website, under each vacancy.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Dani Davies - Resourcing Business Partner at or mobile: 07528 974936.
We’re Magna Housing, a customer-centred housing association, mainly working in Dorset and Somerset (our head office is in Dorchester) with a vision to create great homes together. We want to make sure that we constantly add value to the lives of our customers, and our colleagues, and we work hard to deliver this year on year.
Our vision of “Creating Great Homes Together” is fundamental to the work we do and we have ambitious plans to be “beyond the best” over the next ten years.
Magna prides itself on being large enough to influence but small enough to care. We are on an exciting journey - one that requires agility in how the business develops over the next decade, and different, innovative ways of working as we explore new territory.
Inclusion is important to us here at Magna, and inclusion for everyone is our commitment to making long term and deep change to become an organisation known for being inclusive and welcoming for all. We won’t achieve our vision, mission or strategy without being inclusive. It is the foundation of how we work, our culture and our values and how we adjust to make sure our customer and colleague experiences are welcoming and relevant.
Our successes come through an appreciation of difference - different perspectives, experiences, thoughts, actions and skills. All of which add value and generate innovation. Embracing difference will enable us to get it right, first time, and offer the right homes in the right place for our customers.
For further information about Magna, please visit our website by clicking **here**.
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