- Pay Rate:
£19.84 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4-5 months
- South shields,
NE340NT
Temporary Building Surveyor – Property Services
Job Ref: S Tyneside 1003912514707563
Pay Rate: £19.84 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months
City: South shields
A building surveyor is required with experience of working in social housing, and a mixture of dealing with structural defects, damp, mould and general building surveys including tendering & estimating.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure projects are completed on budget and to schedule.
- Advise clients on schemes and projects and determine requirements.
- Prepare scheme designs with costings, programmes for completion of projects and specification of works.
- Organise documents for tender and advise on appointing contractors, designers and procurement routes.
- Determine the condition of existing buildings, identify and analyse defects, including proposals for repair.
- Advise on energy efficiency, environmental impact and sustainable construction.
- Instruct on the preservation/conservation of historic buildings.
- Advise on the management and supervision of maintenance of buildings.
- Deal with planning applications and advise on property legislation and building regulations.
- Assess and design buildings to meet the needs of people with disabilities.
- Instruct on construction design and management regulations.
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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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining 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.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Full UK driving licence required for this role
Qualifications:
- HNC in Construction.
- Asbestos awareness.
- CSCS card.
Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues
- Negotiation, presentation and report writing skills
- Ability to analyse problems, in order to identify solutions
- Commercial awareness and the ability to ensure that you are adding maximum value to clients' businesses
- Ability to take on high levels of responsibility with enthusiasm and motivation
- Experience of the maintenance provision within the building industry or of working as a building surveyor.
- Understanding and working within established regulatory frameworks.
- Knowledge of innovation and good practice in surveying.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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