Property Surveyor

**Property Surveyor**

**Location**:Wirral - Birkenhead

**Salary**: c£34,000

**Job Outline**

Our client has an opportunity for an experienced surveyor to join a small busy team delivering excellent investment and repairs service with real tenant focus.

If you are able to juggle many competing priorities across compliance, responsive repairs cyclical programmes and voids, have great organisational skills, are comfortable using and recording data and like taking responsibility then they’d like to hear fromyou.

You will be joining a friendly team in a small community-based housing association focussed on customer excellence.

**Job Function**

The Property Surveyor is expected to demonstrate a positive, can-do attitude and will promote the Housing Association as a provider of excellent customer focussed services and will need to be being a team player working together efficiently and effectivelyhelping each other to create a more inclusive workplace to achieve continuous improvement.

The Property Surveyor is required to use their own initiative to manage their own workload and have excellent IT skills and be proficient in a range of IT software packages.

**The Property Surveyor will be responsible for the following key functions, which will be carried out in line with established good practice and Wirral Methodist Housing Association policies and procedures**:

- Advise and assist Senior Management Team on property investment legislation, regulation and policy and good practice when directed.
- Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of all relevant legislation for leasehold management, regulation, policy and good practice and ensure compliance.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of corporate strategies in order to achieve the objectives set out in the associations Business Plan.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of reactive repair and investment services as per our obligations within Methodist Housing Association including the establishment and achievement of performance targets.
- Hold day to day responsibility within the team for making your own informed decisions, referring any policy issues to the Property Manager.
- Develop and maintain effective systems of performance reporting for property investment and reactive repairs services, gas safety and electrical servicing, fire risk assessments, asbestos management and legionella surveys.
- Research and develop the use of appropriate procurement frameworks in response to new products, trends and practices arising within the sector.
- Develop and contribute to the co-ordination and implementation of service improvement plans.

**Carry out and assist with day-to-day duties including**:

- Undertaking measured surveys and production of drawings
- Preparing specifications and tender documentations
- Condition Surveys
- Party Wall Advice
- Cost Estimates
- Building Surveys
- Project Management / Co-ordination
- Contract Administration
- Liaise with Contractors to ensure that effective day to day repairs and void property maintenance services are delivered. This will include the inspection, ordering and supervision of repairs.
- Ensure that appropriate service contracts are awarded and the delivery of services is monitored.
- Co-ordinate, investigate and respond to formal complaints regarding reactive repairs and investment services.
- Work collaboratively with the associations staff, Housing & Property Services and Finance teams, to set budgets and deliver planned investment and cyclical programmes for each member to achieve value for money.
- Carry out stock condition surveys make sure our data base is kept updated.
- Demonstrate a professional approach and adhere to the associations Code of Conduct and always represent and promote the associations best interests.
- Ensure clear and effective communication with colleagues and external agencies.
- Promote a caring, helpful and unbiased attitude towards all staff, tenants and members of the general public and maintain an impeccable standard of honesty in all such dealings. In particular, ensure all aspects of the associations customer care standardsare achieved.
- To take own instructions and seek guidance from the Property Manager or a Senior Management where appropriate.