Senior Asset Building Surveyor

Newcastle - Hybrid role: working from our head office at One Strawberry Lane, from home and across our national property portfolio

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Salary circa £50, 000 - £55, 000 per annum (depending on experience) plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in our fantastic role of Senior Asset Building Surveyor and support us in the delivery of our asset programme to maintain high quality homes with long-term investment plans for refurbishment and remediation properties. In this exciting new role, you can make a big impact leading the delivery of our schemes from governance stages through to start on site. As our internal technical expert on building construction and defects, you’ll bring creative solutions to guide and lead your team of Surveyors, working with stakeholders to work through options and best solutions for our programme.

If you fancy working in a varied role where no two days are the same and to continue developing your own career as you grow with us, then read on…

Typical day as a Senior Asset Building Surveyor

• Delivering our programme of housing, refurbishment and remediation works to properties, ensuring, governance approvals are in place, budget control and objectives are fully met including, time, cost, revenue, value, quality and safety on site. You’ll successfully lead your team of Surveyors, guiding, developing and making it a great place to work for them.
• Reviewing our portfolio and ensuring investment plans are in place for each individual site and estate, liaising with internal colleagues and key stakeholders to work up programmes and budgets.
• Developing our long-term survey requirements so we can meet future business needs including supporting survey programmes and ensure quality assurance is high and data collected is accurate.
• Ensuring we have a good commercial understanding of our assets by reviewing, evaluating, and carrying out financial appraisal of schemes, achieving the best possible outcome with realistic solutions.
• Driving positive working relationships with contractors, influencing appropriately to ensure a win-win outcome around complex schemes.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top ten Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!

You have

• Experience of working on projects (private or public sector) as a Building/Projects Surveyor or similar including investigating diagnosing and conducting complex property condition surveys, specifying remediation works and working with external partners. Experience of managing surveying teams and working within a construction environment.
• A proven ability to keep work demands on track and within budget through motivating others and working at pace. You can balance competing priorities, take information from others and analyse to help inform a decision.
• Be MRICS or MCIOB, accredited Building Surveying degree or equivalent and strong experience in building surveying and investment planning built up through your working profession.
• A current knowledge of building construction, design and CDM requirements as well as relevant codes of practice, building regulations, health and safety legislation, standards and materials.
• An eye for detail, be a great influencer and have creative spark to think outside the box on how things can be done more efficiently.

Our team

You’ll join John and Vik in our Building Surveying and Asset Delivery team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We have delivered £1million property conversions, multi-million portfolio refurbishments and remedial works projects, and have a significant retrofit programme underway. We work nationally to resolve the most challenging projects and are a team who work hard to solve problems together. We’re a supportive bunch and are looking for someone to help identify and drive forward the next stage of our work programme.

Job details

• Full time, 37.5 hpw Monday to Friday. If you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that too!
• Flexible hybrid working, based at our office at One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, from home and across our national property portfolio.
• A full current driving licence and access to a vehicle for work, we’ll pay for your mileage.

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 (includes bank hols and a “me day” to use whenever 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.
• 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!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. See our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Senior Asset Building 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