Building Surveyor - Citizen Housing : Job Details

Salary: £41,999 + 2024/25 pay award pending.

Location: Coventry and Birmingham

The Vacancy: Building Surveyor

Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

We are brave, we are ambitious, we are honest, and we are Citizen!

It’s an exciting time to join our team working across the Midlands. We are seeking for proactive and experienced Asset Surveyors (Building Surveyors) to join our busy Asset Team to drive forward our ambitious investment programmes.

You’ll be part of our technical team reporting to our Project Managers. You’ll be part of a customer facing focused team delivering in one of our three key areas - Disrepairs, Structural projects or Investment programme projects. You will have end to end project management skills, be commercially focused and used to working in a fast-paced housing environment.

In housing you can make a real difference, the role of Building Surveyor will involve:

• Delivering major works and investment programmes ensuring it maximises customer involvement and delivery against Key Performance Indicators.

• Delivering disrepair processes and activities on a case-by-case basis.

• Implementation of a systematic approach to identifying and resolving complex building defects and insurance claims across property archetypes.

As a Building Surveyor, we need you to have:

• Previous experience in a similar role, working across a diverse team, providing a broad range of technical services.

• Attainment of a recognised qualification in a building related subject, preferably MRICS or equivalent experience and skill level.

• A strong understanding of regulation and contractual requirements in a housing environment

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to form strong connections internally as well as externally with our customers.

• Experience in budgetary management and good analytical evaluation skills, with ability to exercise sound professional judgement and reach conclusions.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills effective for a wide range of audiences.

• Experience in procurement and delivery of major works programmes including contract and project management including effective stakeholder consultation and monitoring of customer satisfaction.

• Experience of updating an asset management system and using a housing management system and GIS.

Our people are everything and we offer:

• Opportunities for salary progression
• 'Live work better’ scheme which actively encourages work-life balance
• Annual leave starts at 25 days per year, increasing with length of service
• Enhanced family leave
• Company Pension - Citizen match up to 10%
• If part of the pension scheme you are entitled to Life cover (three times your annual salary)
• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)
• EAP - a 24/7 service which gives free, confidential advice and support on a range of issues including telephone counselling
• Medicash scheme -which includes GP Access, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!
• Recognition through our Employee Excellence Awards
• Representation opportunities on our Staff Consultative Forum
• Access to Citizen’s Wellbeing platform
• Occupational Health
• We believe everyone has something to give and encourage everyone to be the best they can be to reach their full potential with extensive learning and development opportunities and Study Leave

Find out more about our benefits here: Citizen | Benefits (citizenhousing.org.uk)

We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. As part of our recruitment process, we carry out robust safeguarding checks.

Further information on our selection process and Equality and Diversity commitment can be found at www.citizenhousing.org.uk