Regional Building Surveyor

**About The Role**:
Are you a Surveyor with proven experience and qualifications to match? Do you have experience working within the social housing sector or have a desire to? If so, we want to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Regional Building Surveyor to join our talented team. This role is responsible for the strategic overview of the regional housing stock to facilitate the effective maintenance of LiveWest's growing housing portfolio. Necessitating an integrated approach with all other Property Services departments and close regular liaison with the wider investment team and Day to Day repairs team.
- On a day to day basis, you will provide detailed resolutions and project management in respect of complex repairs and issues relating to our properties, taking into account customer requirements, value for money and other factors. You will ensure liaison with customers, clients and external agencies involved within specified projects, providing technical advice and guidance to both colleagues and customers as required and undertake site visits in order to monitor works.

This role is being offered on a
**full time**,
**permanent** basis and will be field based in the
**Taunton Deane, Sedgemoor and West Somerset** area.

To be considered for the role of Regional Building Surveyor, you will:

- Be highly competent and motivated.
- Have a positive, can do attitude.
- Have exceptional customer service skills with the ability to engage customers and communicate with them effectively and confidently.
- Ideally have experience working in customers properties.
- Extensive domestic dwelling experience from a technical management perspective, demonstrating understanding of the built environment.
- Educated to HND/HNC level or equivalent in a relevant field.
- Demonstrates knowledge of health and safety legislation pertaining to management of housing and the construction industry including CDM.
- Good level of literacy and numeracy.
- Hold a full, valid UK/EU driving licence (this will be checked with the DVLA)

**What we offer**:
- Discretionary Bonus scheme.-
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days plus an option to purchase extra annual leave.-
- Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum).-
- Lifestyle discounts portal and internal supplier discounts offer great savings.-
- Defined Contribution pension scheme - employer contribution of 6% - 9%.-
- Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support.-
- Death in Service benefit (3 x salary).-
- Family Friendly policies.-
- Employee Assistance Programme.-
- Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs.-
- Cycle to Work scheme.-
- Car Benefit scheme.-
- Volunteering days.**About The Company**:
LiveWest provides over 39,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.

As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.

As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please click here.