Property Surveyor

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Property Surveyor to join a housing association based in South West London. This will be a permanent position paying �49,140p/a + Benefits.

My client is offering a hybrid working role.

Job Purpose:

• Supports the overall Property directorate and other departments in the diagnosis and management of works
• Manages own workload to diagnose and manage property defects, disrepair and complicated or larger pieces of work including ad hoc planned replacements and day to day repairs
• Lead on the diagnostics of building issues as part of our professional repairs service.
• Provide building pathology support across the entire Property Team.
• Deal with all aspects of building maintenance and defects including post inspection and managing follow on work;
• Contribute with the development of works and provide technical support/advice.
• Contribute, as a member of the Property Team, to corporate objectives and continual business improvement.
• Review Home Improvement requests always safeguarding the assets of my client.
• Assist when there are works affecting party wall or work requests from leaseholders.
• Working to deliver our requirements within our responsibilities under tenure type agreements, policies and legal definitions - e.g General needs, Shared ownership and Leaseholders all have different requirements and my client may have different obligations. This would also include managing agents.
• Assist the team in all technical aspects of building design and defects.
• Make decisions regarding recommendation of work to the Planned team or to carry out ad hoc replacements.
• Feed-back on defective components to ensure design changes for future programs.
• Liaise with the Voids team to inspect and agree specifications of work in accordance with the Lettings Standards
• Assist with decisions, inspection and determinations around adaptation requests from customers and leaseholders.

Main Accountabilities:

• A strong team mentality
• Provide strong commitment to the team to ensure people are effective in their roles, supported and motivated.
• Appraising buildings to improve their performance and ensure standards are met.
• Be part of a professional team that reflect the standard of service required.
• Be aware and manage in line with my client policies.
• Carry out the full range of requirements such as pre, post and during work inspections.
• Request training as required to widen knowledge and awareness.
• Manage leaseholder and third party enquiries.
• Investigate complaints and serious incidents ensuring the relevant systems are updated.
• Consider any budget implications in order to ensure spend is allocated appropriately to the correct budget to mitigate risk of overspend and recovery via a Section 20 process.
• Work alongside Property colleagues to contribute to the development of learning framework to build capability of front line colleagues in relation to property diagnosis and management of repairs.

Title: Property Surveyor

Salary: �49,140p/a + Benefits

Location: South West London