Maintenance Surveyor

Hybrid role - working from home, one our office within the South to suit your location and covering Surrey, East & West Sussex, Kent, South, South West & South East London

Permanent Contract, full time (37, 5 hpw)

Salary circa £42, 000 – £47, 000 pa, depending on experience and qualifications. Plus, we have great benefits including a Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Maintenance Surveyor looking for a new role with a great employer? Come join us at Home Group and be part of our fantastic repairs and maintenance team. Make a difference as you support us to continuously improve the quality standards of our properties. If you want to work alongside a brilliant team and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on.

Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections of repairs on both responsive and void properties, managing a patch across the South, ensuring high-quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.
• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors, and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective, and compliant service.
• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.
• Managing any disrepair cases and helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes.
• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.
• Ensuring void re-servicing is carried out to a high standard, enabling re-let as soon as possible.

It's a great feeling to head home knowing you've made a real difference in our customers' lives, especially while working at one of the UK's top ten Great Places to Work!

You are

• Educated to a minimum HNC/HND or equivalent qualification within a surveying or building related field, with significant equivalent professional experience within the surveying field
• Knowledgeable of the causes of damp and mould, with a relevant qualification or be willing to work towards this
• Experienced in diagnosing and scoping property condition including disrepair and dilapidation surveys and remedial works
• Able to understand building pathology with ability to diagnose complex works such as, subsidence etc
• Experienced in managing contractors, ensuring delivery aligns with health and safety laws, including CDM
• Proactive and self-sufficient, able to manage your patch and deliver work commercially, on time, and within budget

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills, and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers, ’ and your own commitments.
• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office and others working at home. The rest will be working in our properties across the South.
• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.
• Hold a full UK driving licence and vehicle insured for business use – mileage is covered!
• You’ll need a Basic DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers, and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies, and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays, and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike, or car? Save money with us.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Maintenance Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk