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We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Surveyor to join our team at Adecco, a leading employment agency. As a Maintenance Surveyor, you will be responsible for delivering technical repairs and inspection services to maintain housing stock in a public sector organisation based in East London.

• Oversee appointed contractors carrying out repairs and minor improvement works on an allocated patch, ensuring a high-quality repairs and maintenance service at the best possible cost.
• Conduct site surveys and estate inspections to identify potential hazards and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Undertake technical and inspection duties in relation to repairs and minor improvements to occupied and void homes, external and communal areas, and playgrounds.
• Assess properties for hazards such as damp, mould, excess cold, sanitisation, drainage, etc.
• Raise works orders and variation orders, obtain, challenge costs, and approve quotations for specialised/non-standard works.
• Work supervision, contractor liaison, and progress monitoring to ensure target dates are achieved and quality standards are met.
• Post-inspect works to ensure quality, audit requirements, and quotas, monitor post-inspection failures, frequency of repair requests by property, most used items, and quoted work as requested.
• Conduct inspections for inspection claims, liaising with residents, validating claims, and advising the insurance team.
• Highlight materials that may contain asbestos and arrange appropriate survey and removal in accordance with procedures.
• Identify potential fire safety risks and arrange remedial action in line with procedures. Carry out fire assessments in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 if required.

• Experience of working in a Repairs and Maintenance environment.
• Experience of providing technical support and advice to a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of working in a customer-facing environment.
• Experience of carrying out HHSRS assessments.
• Extensive knowledge of building repairs and maintenance, building defects, building decay, and building performance failure, including non-structural cracks, spalling concrete/structural cracks/defective external walls.
• Expert knowledge of the Fitness for Habitation Act 2018, Building Regulations Part A, Part F, Part H, Part N, and 2.19 Regulation 7.
• Knowledge of HHSRS hazard identification.