Senior Building Surveyor
Posted 5 days ago by Seven Resourcing
£300 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Area and Stock Conditions Surveyor role in Salisbury involves overseeing property and asset-related regulatory standards within a Housing Revenue Account portfolio. The position requires leading stock condition surveys and compliance activities to ensure housing assets meet statutory standards. The role demands strong technical expertise and leadership in asset management, compliance, and project delivery. Candidates should have significant experience in building surveying and managing maintenance contracts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver comprehensive stock condition surveys across residential housing stock.
- Ensure compliance with the Decent Homes Standard and HHSRS requirements.
- Identify hazards, defects, and lifecycle requirements.
- Lead on energy efficiency improvements and support retrofit programmes.
- Provide specialist advice across multiple building disciplines.
- Prepare detailed specifications, drawings, and tender documentation.
- Lead on procurement and management of planned maintenance contracts.
- Manage contractors and ensure performance targets are met.
- Contribute to 30-year capital investment planning and asset management strategies.
- Provide leadership and guidance to Area Maintenance Surveyors.
Key Skills:
- Degree in Building Surveying or related discipline.
- Chartered Member or Fellow of relevant professional institutions.
- Significant post-qualification experience in building surveying.
- Strong experience managing planned maintenance contracts.
- Extensive knowledge of JCT and NEC contracts.
- Advanced understanding of CDM Regulations 2015.
- Strong knowledge of HHSRS and health and safety legislation.
- Proven project management experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong ICT skills including Microsoft applications.
Salary (Rate): £300 daily
City: Salisbury
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Senior Area and Stock Conditions Surveyor
Location: Salisbury
Rate: £300 per day (Umbrella)
Contract: Interim / Temporary
Seven Resourcing are currently recruiting for a Senior Area and Stock Conditions Surveyor to work in Salisbury within a busy Asset Maintenance Team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Building Surveyor or Asset Management professional with strong knowledge of housing compliance, planned maintenance, and stock condition surveying.
The Role
As Senior Area and Stock Conditions Surveyor, you will be responsible for monitoring, assessing, and enforcing property and asset-related regulatory standards across a large Housing Revenue Account (HRA) housing portfolio. You will lead on stock condition surveys, lifecycle assessments, and compliance activity to ensure housing assets meet statutory standards including the Decent Homes Standard and Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) requirements. This is a senior technical position providing leadership across one of four geographic areas, working closely with Surveyors, Repairs teams, contractors, and asset management colleagues to ensure properties are safe, compliant, energy efficient, and well maintained.
Key Responsibilities
- Asset Management & Compliance
- Deliver comprehensive stock condition surveys across residential housing stock including homes, extra care schemes, communal areas, garages, and void properties.
- Ensure compliance with the Decent Homes Standard and HHSRS requirements.
- Identify hazards, defects, damp and mould issues, and component lifecycle requirements.
- Lead on energy efficiency improvements and support retrofit, insulation, and heating upgrade programmes.
- Contribute to achieving EPC improvement targets in line with climate change and sustainability strategies.
- Technical Expertise
- Provide specialist advice across multiple building disciplines including building pathology and lifecycle costing.
- Diagnose complex maintenance issues and develop effective technical solutions.
- Prepare detailed specifications, drawings, and tender documentation.
- Undertake feasibility studies and options appraisals for improvement works.
- Ensure compliance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM).
- Contracts & Project Delivery
- Lead on procurement, specification, and management of planned maintenance and repairs contracts.
- Manage contractors and consultants, ensuring performance targets and KPIs are met.
- Oversee cyclical servicing, planned improvements, void works, and energy efficiency projects.
- Certify valuations, manage applications for payment, and oversee final accounts.
- Financial & Strategic Planning
- Contribute to 30-year capital investment planning and long-term asset management strategies.
- Develop costed planned maintenance programmes.
- Manage revenue and capital budgets within agreed financial limits.
- Leadership & Service Delivery
- Provide leadership and guidance to Area Maintenance Surveyors and Repairs Surveyors.
- Act as a key point of contact for tenants, councillors, internal teams, and stakeholders.
- Lead tenant consultations and leaseholder engagement processes where required.
- Promote preventative maintenance strategies to reduce reactive repairs.
Essential Requirements
- Degree in Building Surveying or related discipline (or substantial equivalent experience).
- Chartered Member or Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or Chartered Institute of Building.
- Significant post-qualification experience delivering building surveying services at senior level.
- Strong experience managing planned maintenance or term maintenance contracts.
- Extensive knowledge of JCT and NEC contracts.
- Advanced understanding of CDM Regulations 2015.
- Strong working knowledge of HHSRS, building regulations, landlord and tenant legislation, and health and safety legislation.
- Proven project management experience from inception to completion.
- Experience managing contractors and capital works budgets.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong ICT skills including Microsoft applications and asset management systems.
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