Job Introduction
What you’ll do
Improving the Building Safety Team's understanding of the quality of our property builds, the makeup of external walls, and asset components within buildings. Working in partnership with other teams in Building.
Working with operational teams across all departments to improve the safety of our homes, the role aims to enhance residential safety comprehensively by collaborating with other departments.
Responsibilities include managing floorplan and wayfinding signage projects, conducting surveys, addressing queries, supporting FRA actions, updating SharePoint and program trackers, coordinating EWS1 reports, managing building safety investigation for BS Tranches. This role also involves financial oversight, site inspections, and document management, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and efficient project delivery.
How you’ll do it
As a surveyor, your main function is to support the Senior Project Manager in ensuring the safety of our homes by performing various tasks within the Regulations team. This role is responsible for delivering the best value and improving the safety aspects of our homes. Responsibilities include conducting visual surveys, managing projects and other project adminstratice duties.
You will liaise with PMOs, managing agents, residents, and other stakeholders, organise meetings, and manage access issues. Additional duties involve conducting site visits, arranging visits with engineers, managing EWS1 queries, assisting with building safety Tranches, FRAEW, managing SharePoint sites for live projects, issuing and managing purchase orders, uploading key building information, and reviewing lease documents to identify accountable and responsible persons under relevant safety legislation.
The Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a genuinely enthusiastic individual who is passionate about building safety and eager to make our homes safer. The ideal candidate will possess a keen interest in learning and working within the Building Safety team, understanding that this role will require hard work and dedication. Realistically, the work will be challenging, but with solid coordination and time management skills, you will thrive in this dynamic environment.
We are looking for someone with existing qualifications, such as an HNC, HND, or a degree in surveying, construction, or similar fields, who is eager to gain experience in building safety. This role is also perfect for an existing surveyor or property inspector looking to broaden their knowledge and expertise in building safety. Additionally, this opportunity is ideal for you if you have already enrolled to start a surveying or construction qualification in September 2024.
Even if you don't have formal qualifications but possess extensive knowledge in building and construction or project management, we welcome your application. We are also interested in candidates who have recently completed a qualification in surveying or construction and are looking for an opportunity to gain practical experience.
We want to hear from you if you are passionate, dedicated, and ready to make a difference. For more information about the job, please get in touch with Arnold Smith.
Join us and be a part of a team committed to enhancing the safety of our homes!
Essential:
1.. HNC or a Degree in Building Surveying or Construction
2.. Extensive knowledge and experience in Building Surveying or Construction
What’s in it for you? Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:
3. Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
4. Generous pension scheme
5. Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
6. Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
7. Health cash plan
8. Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
9. Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
10. Cycle to work scheme.
11. Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: Selection Process Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 11th July 2024. Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk. Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others. NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
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