Maintenance Surveyor - The Hyde Group : Job Details

Maintnance Surveyor

Up to £45,700

London Bridge

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Surveyor to work within our Responsive Repairs team.

At the Hyde Group, our vision is to provide a great home for everyone. Our values guide the way we operate as a business: we’re customer driven, inclusive, collaborative and innovative.

You will provide an excellent and professional housing maintenance service. You will be responsible for the specification, issue, supervision and monitoring of repairs related building maintenance. This includes repair and maintenance, void works, refurbishment, adaptations, modernisation and improving and servicing of properties to meet customer expectations. You will also ensure all responsive repairs works are carried out to the required standard, quality and value for money.

Duties and responsibilities

• Work within agreed budgets and cost controls, ensuring adherence with financial procedures at all times.
• Produce reports and other information as required in line with statutory, regulatory and policy requirements.
• Provide technical reports, appraisals, measurement, costings and estimates as required.
• Undertake surveys and prepare schedules and any contract specification documents. Amend existing documents to reflect any changes or enhancements to the existing repairs service as directed.
• Issue warning/default notices, enforce liquidated damages and issue variation orders as required.
• Under the direction of the Team Leader monitor, supervise and control the repairs service and ensure compliance with any contracts or service level agreements.
• Ascertain, report on and take mitigating action, as required, for known risks associated with the repairs service including any potential failure of any compliance related activity, this may require carrying out 'desk top’ reviews of Fire Risk Assessments, Lifts, LGSR’s, Electrical TI’s, ACM’s, Legionella.
• Regularly inspect the quality of workmanship in accordance with the agreed standard specifications of work as directed and ensure that all call backs are completed in a timely fashion based on priority and risk.
• Support the complaints team in investigating and mitigating the risk of escalation.

Skills and experience required

• Full UK Driving Licence with own vehicle required for this role. (mileage and fuel paid for by Hyde)
• HND/HNC in Construction is desirable.
• Previous experience working as a Surveyor within Housing.
• Previous experience with refurbishment and capital works is advantageous.
• RICS/CIOB/MCIOB
• Availability to provide out-of-hours support when required, including weekends.
• Strong knowledge and ability to diagnose damp and mould, coupled with excellent project management skills.
• Willingness to travel to sites outside of designated work area when required to support the team during absences.
• Excellent record keeping skills in responding to complaints, MP/Cllr inquiries, and Environmental Health inquiries within the specified timeframe.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effective collaboration and team work skills.

We offer an award-winning flexible benefits package, a 35 hour working week, a fantastic pension scheme and the opportunity to work for an organisation whose social purpose is to help provide people with a home.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the Hyde Group as a social business, and critical in delivering our vision of a great home for everyone. We strive to build and nurture a culture where inclusivity is the norm and not an initiative. Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace which reflects our customer profile and where everyone is proud to be unique