Property Compliance Surveyor

**Property Compliance Surveyor**

Contract Opportunity via BRC

**Job: Property Compliance Surveyor**

**Location: Trowbridge**

**Salary: £47,000 per year**

**Hours: 35 hours per week**

**Length: 12 Month Contract**

**Role**:
The purpose of this role is to work on behalf of the organisation, to ensure our properties are maintained to the highest standard to carry out all contract administration and contract management duties pre and post contract, providing advice on programme, quality, design, costs, including preparation of tender documents in line with CDM regulations to ensure all major programmes and projects across the Group are delivered to required standards and best value.

Compliance project surveyors lead in the delivery of defined projects and management of servicing, assessment and maintenance pertaining to statutory technical compliance relating to fire safety, gas safety, electrical safety, asbestos management, lift & lifting equipment safety and water management to ensure the health and safety of residents, staff and external contractors. This will require technical advice to be delivered to internal and external colleagues/contractors across the association to help support a robust compliance management culture within the business.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- The Compliance Project surveyor will uphold the requirements to maintain the golden thread for both information and actions, this will be supported by the fire safety programmes and projects undertaken, ensuring that full and accurateinformation is held to identify, understand, manage and mitigate building safety risks in order to prevent or reduce the severity of the consequences of fire spread or structural collapse throughout the lifecycle of the building and will be reviewed and managed for the building lifecycle.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will offer recommendations and instructions for fire safety related matters, arranging and overseeing the programmes for Fire risk assessment, ensuring recommendations are addressed appropriately and to a high standard. The surveyor will also manage fire alarm servicing, emergency lighting servicing, AOV servicing, carry out annual fire risk reviews, maintain ongoing meetings with fire risk assessors, fire safety action groups (internal teams) and fire safety contractors, and carry out audits with the fire and rescue service. The Compliance project surveyor will ensure that full digital records are kept for all of the above elements.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will be required to plan, programme and organise sprinkler services and visual inspections of all buildings as required, ensuring any remedial actions are created and implemented in accordance with the sprinkler management plan, acting as the primary point of contact for contractors and tenants to arrange access and service visits.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will be required to plan, programme and organise asbestos management surveys of all applicable buildings, ensuring all ACM's are regularly inspected and controlled across the Property portfolio, and overseeing any remedial actions in accordance with the asbestos management plan. The Compliance Project Surveyor will also review and provide asbestos reports to colleagues across the business to enable planned programmes of work, align future budget provision, and ensure that the organisation complies with its duties under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR) and other relevant legislation, acting as a Competent Person with regards to asbestos in the organisation’s stock, and as “principal adviser” for any matter relating to asbestos compliance across the repairs and investment directorate.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will be responsible for managing the programme of testing and certification of fixed electrical wiring systems by arranging for EICRs to be carried out and any subsequent remedial works to be undertaken. This will require regular contract meetings with the specialist contractor
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will arrange and manage the programme for gas safety checks and servicing and oversee the auditing programme for gas certification.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will be responsible for managing service & maintenance programmes of all water systems including water tanks, calorifiers, TMVs and water outlets, conducting Legionella Risk Assessments on a regular basis, in addition to bacterial sampling and attendant remedial works.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will be responsible for managing service & maintenance programmes of all hardwired and dispersed lifeline units, inductions, repairs and client data updates.
- The Compliance Project Surveyor will also be responsible for managing service & maintenance programmes relating to lightning conductors, portable appliance testing, person-safe/fall arrest systems, passenger & through-floor lifts, stair lifts, automatic and non-automatic entrance doors and associated