Building Surveyor Planned Maintenance - Ashford Borough Council : Job Details

Job Title: Building Surveyor (Planned Maintenance)

Location: Ashford, Kent

Salary: Up to £41,994 pa depending on skills and experience Plus lease car subsidy or cash alternative of £2,080 pa

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

Working Hours: 37 Hours Per Week

Closing Date: 5th March 2025

About the Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Building Surveyor to strengthen our existing maintenance team in providing refurbishment, improvements and repairs to the councils housing stock. We are a Registered Social Landlord - good customer service for our tenants is important.

At Ashford, Building Surveyors cover a range of traditional construction roles such as Architect, Clerk of works, Quantity Surveyor and Project manager as they see projects through from start to finish.

Our Building surveyors manage building projects mainly concerned with the Decent Homes programme but also a wide variety of other projects including.

• Disabled adaptations,
• Structural repairs,
• Remedial works following accidental/malicious damage including processing insurance claims where appropriate.
• Major responsive repairs and conversions.

About you:

To be competent in this role you will have good understanding of construction and the techniques and practices to maintain properties. Ideally you will have significant relevant experience and or have post-qualification experience of producing and supervising refurbishment and improvement contracts on occupied residential properties. In addition to this we are looking for candidates that have;

• Good project management skills.
• Ability to deal with contractors, outside agencies, tenants and the public.
• Good people management skills and interpersonal skills.
• Good knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, particularly with regard to CDM Regulations.
• This role requires the use of scaffolding and accessing restricted spaces such as lofts from time to time.

Benefits:

We offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Hybrid Working - We are an organisation that puts people first and understands how important employee wellbeing is. We want to help you to balance your working life and home life and offer flexible ways of working to help structure your life in a positive and productive way; both at home and in the office. This maximises personal development and collaborative working.
• Competitive remuneration package - We offer an excellent salary linked pension scheme, generous annual leave with flexi time, free life insurance, supportive relocation package and opportunities for training and development.
• Generous annual leave
• Free life insurance
• Excellent salary linked pension scheme
• Supportive relocation package
• Opportunities for training and development

Additional Information:

With devolution news and talks evolving, we understand that there may be some uncertainty for those currently serving within the sector. Kent, Medway and all District and Borough Councils in the South East already work closely with each other and a devolution deal would represent the next step forward in that partnership working. The services we currently deliver continue to be vital to our communities and will remain so whatever changes may be proposed in the coming year. This is an exciting, but stable time to join our organisation.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community.

Ashford Borough Council recognises the need to ensure the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults when they come into contact with the services we provide.

To find out further information about the role and to view the full job description, please visit the council's website.

Please click the APPLY button and you will be redirected to the council's website to complete your application.

Candidates With the Relevant Experience or Job Titles Of; Planned Maintenance Project Manager, Building Surveyor, Property Inspector, Building Engineer, Project Surveyor, Project Surveys, Property Engineer, Surveying Engineer, Property Surveyor may also be considered for this role.