Building Surveyor x 2 – Property Services
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Temporary Building Surveyor x 2 – Property Services
Job Ref: Portsmouth 5254943Pay Rate: £18.99 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 8am to 4pm
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
City: Portsmouth, Hampshire
Basic DBS disclosure required for this role
A Building Surveyor is required to join the Property Services team with good knowledge of day-to-day repairs and relevant experience of diagnosing and managing their delivery.
The successful candidate will carry out a wide range of duties across our varied 3,000+ housing stock, together with our asset portfolio of corporate operational, commercial and community assets. Predominantly be attending day to day repairs, updating stock data, evaluating and diagnosing what work is required, assessing the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs.
The majority of our repairs and maintenance work is undertaken in occupation, in both residential and commercial buildings, and the candidate will be expected to liaise with all relevant parties to ensure customers and clients are kept fully informed at all times
Qualification:
HNC, HND, BTEC HND or higher, in a building discipline.Has a full driving licence and provide a car for work, as you will be visiting sites across Portsmouth and will need to travel effectively between them. You may also be required to occasionally attend evening meetings as appropriate.
Skills & Experience:
Previous experience of working for a Local Authority or housing provider is not essential and you may have a trade background working for a Contractor delivering day to day repairs.Able to demonstrate sufficient relevant experience and knowledge of general day to day response repairs in a housing or commercial environment.
Good building construction technology and building pathology knowledge together with the ability to evaluate and diagnose what work is required.
Practical surveying skills that can be demonstrated; specifically be able to carry out stock data surveys.
Demonstrating you can manage a contractor using a contract, negotiating contractual matters and resolution of disputes with contractors.
Knowledge and experience of cost control techniques and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness when undertaking cost estimates for larger repair work.
Planning skills and demonstrate the ability to be organised and methodical when undertaking inspections to ensure effective time management.
Knowledge and be able to advise others of building construction technology and building pathology.
Knowledge and be able to apply building related legislation, contract law and guidance. Specifically, the building regulations, planning law, party wall act, fire safety, electrical inspections, gas installations, JCT and NEC contracts.
Knowledge and be able to apply construction related health & safety legislation generally including advising others. Specifically the CDM Regulations 2007 and asbestos at work regulations.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms.We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Portsmouth 5254943
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