Specialist Surveyor

We are Places for People Group, we build homes and manage communities where everyone is welcome and everyone can thrive, we are placemakers.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with supportive people, driven people and forward thinking people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

**More about your role**

Working within the Active Asset Management team, your work will be to undertake investigative building surveys to identify the cause of building defects and determine the required remediation work. As a surveyor you will be advising Places for People on technical queries and supporting delivery of associated programmes for asbestos monitoring, energy assessments, radon, insurance related surveys and delivery of disrepair surveys/Scott schedules.

Please note: This is a agile role where you will be covering the Scotland region. Therefore, due to the geographic spread of properties, you will require a full current UK driving licence.

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**More about you**

To be successful in this role you will already have developed a career as a property surveyor holding chartered status or relevant surveying/construction qualifications to at least HND level or equivalent. Ideally you will have experience surveying social / affordable housing stock and possess detailed knowledge of housing related building and surveying requirements as well as planned, cyclical and responsive maintenance programmes.

In addition to understanding all statutory obligations for domestic properties, housing sector standards and best practice strategies you will also possess strong customer engagement skills and be able to analyse and present data and reports including making recommendations to peers and senior managers.

**The benefits**

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

- Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
- Pension with matched contributions
- Training

Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas

**What's next?**

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