Job description
Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week working Monday to Friday.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Housing Repairs & Maintenance, part of Housing and Landlord Services at Bristol City Council (BCC). You can help make a big difference by ensuring our properties are safe and secure homes for our residents.
Housing Repairs & Maintenance Service focuses on delivering good quality repairs to a large variety of different types of properties amongst our 27,500 homes for residents.
We are seeking to employ an enthusiastic and motivated building surveyor to join our responsive repairs team. Within this role you will attend daily inspections to assess, oversee and manage the day-to-day response repairs that are reported and provide technical support from inception to completion in order to manage the end-to-end repairs process service for our residents and leaseholders. This will include resolving any issues that could happen pre, during and post works being completed, to ensure a high standard is achieved to meet our customer’s needs. You will work with our internal trade teams and a range of external contractors from general building to specialists.
The scope of works you will come across daily can include, but not limited to, the following items – repairing the roof, windows and/or door replacement, internal decorations, bathroom/kitchen repairs, asbestos removals, mould/ventilation issues, damp & timber treatments, concrete and balcony repairs, works to the curtilage of the property or of blocks, on occasion involving working at height. You will ensure that work is carried out to BCC standards, specification, and timescales, ensuring quality and value for money. As a surveyor you will inspect work at key stages through to practical completion and record all outcomes.
You will work within teams of dedicated construction professionals in the delivery of minor and major repairs to residential properties across the city. Whilst we are recruiting to certain vacant positions, there are three areas of the service, that the Repairs Surveyor role can be within. If future demand and priorities change, you may be required to work in any of these.
Why Bristol City Council?
At BCC, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.
For the majority of our role’s, hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice – mixing both home and office working.
Join us and you’ll receive a generous rewards package including flexible working options, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.
How to apply?
To apply, please submit your CV along with a supporting statement that details how you meet the criteria within the Person Specification.
To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your covering letter.
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black and racially minoritised, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Female candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.
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