- Pay Rate:
£35.75 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4 months
- HONITON, Devon,
EX14 1EJ
Interim Disrepair/Maintenance Surveyor - Building Services
Reference no: E Devon 5240742
Pay rate: £35.75 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4 months
City: HONITON, Devon
Valid UK driving licence and own car required
A Disrepair Surveyor is required to provide the day to day repair service to tenants and maintain the Council’s housing stock. To manage the day to day repair/void contracts and contractors to a high standard providing high quality repair services to the Council and tenants and to support the Senior Technical Officer and other technical staff in achieving the priorities and objectives of the Council.
Key responsibilities:
- Deal with the reactive and planned property maintenance requirements of the Council’s dwellings within a prescribed budget and aligned to the contract, and to ensure compliance with the current Decent Homes Standard.
- Investigate repair requests, diagnose faults and complaints, commission repairs and supervise them through to completion. Carry out pre and post inspections of repairs in line with the current contract requirements.
- Establish appropriate effective working relationships with the current contractor/s which support and grow the partnership.
- Provide a supportive technical duty surveyor function to the current contractor/s, and the contact centre team on a rota basis.
- Undertake the preparation of condition surveys to enable the implementation of the planned and cyclical maintenance programmes.
- Manage the quoted works and exclusion works elements of this contract to ensure value for money and accuracy of these works in line with the contract.
- Process/manage claims for payment in line with specific Contract terms, set limits, Statutory Regulations, procurement rules and EDDC Standing Orders.
- Monitor contractors on site and report on performance issues while ensuring value for money.
- Survey properties to identify, log and deal with the presence of asbestos based materials.
- Be involved in regular operational meetings with the current term contractor in order to assess contract performance.
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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.
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.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
- Good general education e.g. GCSE grade C and above including Maths and English.
- HNC or equivalent in a building related subject or experience in building related work and identifying building defects and specifying repair works.
- Qualified Building Surveyor, or equivalent qualified building degree.
- Membership of a professional organisation/body e.g. RICS etc. or equivalent desirable.
Experience:
- Evidence of practical experience in building related maintenance.
- Experience of the management of contracts and contractors.
- Experience of working with a local authority/housing association desirable.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of building construction and contract management.
- A working knowledge of health and safety, gas safety, fire safety and asbestos regulations.
- An understanding of good public relations.
- Knowledge of current issues in housing and local government desirable.
Skills & Abilities:
- Effective communication skills.
- Able to manage contracts and contractors.
- Well developed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Accuracy and attention to detail skills particularly when working to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
- A valid driving licence and own car required.
- Able to undertake home/site visits.
- Willingness to deal with out of hours enquiries when required.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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