Job Description
Building Surveyor
Hourly Rate: £28
Location: Blackley, Manchester (M9)
Job Type: Full-time, Temporary Contract
Join our Housing Operations team as a Building Surveyor, focusing on housing disrepair. This role involves carrying out professional technical surveying duties, delivering high-quality inspections, schedules of work, and expert technical advice. You will act as a crucial link between contractors, legal teams, and housing officers, ensuring that cases progress efficiently and works are completed to required standards, timescales, and legal obligations.
Day-to-day of the role:
* Technical Inspections & Reporting:
o Carry out technical inspections of disrepair properties within required timescales.
o Produce clear, detailed, accurate schedules of work and technical reports.
o Validate and interpret expert reports, ensuring recommendations are appropriate, cost-effective, and deliverable.
o Conduct joint inspections and support the production of Scott Schedules and other legal documentation.
* Case & Legal Support:
o Liaise with contractors, legal representatives, housing officers, and internal teams to help progress disrepair cases efficiently.
o Provide technical evidence and, where necessary, act as a single joint expert or attend court as a professional witness.
o Support timely case closure in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
* Contractor & Works Management:
o Provide technical oversight to ensure works are delivered to required standards, budgets, and timescales.
o Monitor contractor performance, challenge costs where necessary, and ensure works meet both quality and compliance expectations.
* Service Improvement & Reporting:
o Contribute to improved reporting, forecasting, data accuracy, and case management processes.
o Support continuous improvement of the repairs and maintenance service, ensuring a Right First Time approach.
o Maintain excellent communication with residents throughout the process.
* Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Proven experience working in housing disrepair, including inspections, diagnostics, and legal processes.
* Strong understanding of building construction, standards, HHSRS, damp and mould, and local authority housing regulations.
* Ability to write high-quality technical reports and manage multiple cases simultaneously.
* Experience liaising with solicitors, contractors, loss adjusters, and internal stakeholders.
* Desirable Skills / Requirements:
* Construction-related qualification or equivalent experience.
* Experience of CDM, planning/building regulations, insurance claims, and voids/major works.
* Strong negotiation, communication, and project management skills.
* Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
* Benefits:
* Competitive hourly rate.
* Opportunity to work in a dynamic and impactful role within housing operations.
* Exposure to diverse professional challenges and continuous professional development.