Disrepair Surveyor

MMP has just had a new opportunity for a Property Surveyor to join one of our clients in London. I wanted to see if this would be something of interest to yourself or anyone in your network?
Job Title: Property Surveyor (Experience working in Disrepair and a knowledge of Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act are essential)
Location: London
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £47,250 Benefits
Job purpose:

• Supports the overall Property directorate and other departments in the

diagnosis and management of work
Manages own workload to diagnose and manage property defects, disrepair and complicated or larger pieces of work including ad hoc planned replacements and day to day repairs

• Lead on the diagnostics of building issues as part of our professional repairs service.
• Provide building pathology support across the entire Property Team.
• Deal with all aspects of building maintenance and defects including post inspection and managing follow on work;
• Contribute with the development of works and provide technical support/advice.
• Contribute, as a member of the Property Team, to corporate objectives and continual business improvement.
• Review Home Improvement requests always safeguarding the assets of our client's
• Assist when there are works affecting party wall or work requests from leaseholders.
• Working to deliver our requirements within our responsibilities under tenure type agreements, policies and legal definitions - e.g General needs, Shared ownership and Leaseholders all have different requirements and our client's may have different obligations. This would also include managing agents.
• Assist the team in all technical aspects of building design and defects.
• Make decisions regarding recommendation of work to the Planned team or to carry out ad hoc replacements.
• Feed-back on defective components to ensure design changes for future programs.
• Liaise with the Voids team to inspect and agree specifications of work in accordance with the our client's Lettings Standards.

Main accountabilities:

• A strong team mentality
• Provide strong commitment to the team to ensure people are effective in their roles, supported and motivated.
• Appraising buildings to improve their performance and ensure standards are met.
• Be part of a professional team that reflect the standard of service required.
• Be aware and manage in line with our client policies.
• Carry out the full range of requirements such as pre, post and during work inspections.
• Request training as required to widen knowledge and awareness.
• Manage leaseholder and third party enquiries.
• Investigate complaints and serious incidents ensuring the relevant systems are updated.
• Consider any budget implications in order to ensure spend is allocated appropriately to the correct budget to mitigate risk of overspend and recovery via a Section 20 process.
• Work alongside Property colleagues to contribute to the development of learning framework to build capability of front line colleagues in relation to property diagnosis and management of repairs.

Benefits:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• In addition to annual leave a 'belief day' to be taken at a time of your choosing
• 2 paid voluntary days to support your community
• Flexibility to buy and sell 5 days leave each year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions up to a maximum of 9% contribution
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to extensive on-line training
• Tenancy Deposits to assist colleagues with rental deposits

Job Title: Property Surveyor (Experience working in Disrepair and a knowledge of Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act are essential)
Location: London
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £47,250 Benefits