Building Surveying Manager - 12 Month FTC
Posted 1 day ago by CHP
£57,919 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Building Surveyor Manager will lead a team in maintaining and enhancing CHP's housing and property assets, managing a specialist building surveying service. This role involves strategic oversight of technical requirements and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract ending on 31 March 2027. The successful candidate will also be responsible for managing property asset failures and mentoring team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and resolve instances of property asset failure, focusing on structural integrity and disrepair.
- Monitor and manage budget areas to ensure value for money.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and service delivery requirements.
- Develop and mentor team members, providing necessary training.
- Maintain and update databases for case information and champion digital solutions.
Key Skills:
- Experience in managing a building surveying team and complex cases.
- Strong background in conducting building surveys and defect analysis.
- Knowledge of housing asset management and building safety.
- Extensive understanding of Regulatory Standards.
- Experience in delivering maintenance projects within time, budget, and quality constraints.
Salary (Rate): £57,919 yearly
City: Chelmsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
The Vacancy
We are looking for a Building Surveyor Manager to lead our team in maintaining and improving CHP’s housing and property assets. The successful candidate will manage a specialist building surveying service in the maintenance of all CHP’s housing and other property assets and provide strategic oversight of technical requirements of the Asset Management Strategy and implementation. This role is a 12-month fixed term contract ending 31 March 2027.
What you’ll be doing
- Accountable for managing to a successful resolution all instances of property asset failure, specifically around structural integrity and disrepair by investigating, managing and defending CHP’s interests in legal and arbitration cases.
- Monitor and manage agreed budget areas to ensure robust expenditure and value for money.
- Accountable for ensuring that the regulatory and compliance requirements of service delivery are met.
- Manage, motivate, develop and mentor team members, providing training where required throughout the business.
- Keep all appropriate databases properly updated to ensure that full information on cases are properly recorded and monitored, championing the use of digital solutions where possible.
What we are looking for
- Experience in managing a successful building surveying team and complex cases to tight deadlines.
- Strong experience of carrying out building surveys and analysis defects, including writing reports with recommendations.
- Strong knowledge of housing asset management and building safety.
- Extensive knowledge of the Regulatory Standards.
- Experience of delivering maintenance projects and refurbishments work to time, budget, and quality.
Benefits
- The salary for this post will be £57,919 Per Annum.
- Learning and development opportunities
- Healthcare cash plan
- Robust employee reward and recognition programme
- Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- CHParticipate volunteering programme
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays, 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year and 1 wellbeing day per annum.
- 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need.
- We operate a hybrid working policy at CHP.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications or successfully appoint a candidate before the closing date. We encourage early applications to avoid disappointment.