Job Title: Housing Property Surveyor
Location: Harlow, Essesx
Salary: £47,754 – £49,764 per annum
Job type: Full Time, permanent
Harlow Council is looking to recruit a Housing Property Surveyor on permanent basis to support its landlord obligations in managing our property assets. Harlow Council currently looks after circa 9,000 homes and 2,400 leasehold properties, and our journey of transformation in the past few years has been remarkable and led to sector and national recognition, but there is more to do.
1. As part of that success, we have invested over £100 million in our housing stock to provide better homes for our tenants and leaseholders.
2. As a Property Surveyor you will be responsible for:
3. Inspecting, scheduling and validation of minor building defect projects
4. RTB and solicitor queries for disposals and private sales of leasehold properties
5. Management of residential insurance claims
6. Mutual exchange inspections, scheduling and validation
7. Procurement, tendering and evaluation of small works projects
8. Technical support to the more complex responsive and PPM activities of our maintenance partner/s
9. Disrepair claim management; inspection, scheduling, reporting and validation of remedial work
10. Preparing design solutions, BCntl applications and specifying material and workmanship requirements
11. Performance management of Void property refurbishments; scoping and QC of non-routine works
Experience of supervising and monitoring the performance of external contractors and consultants. You must have a good understanding of Health and Safety and Building Legislation. Qualified to a minimum HNC/HND or equivalent standard, you must also be experienced in undertaking pre and post inspections of works.
Our policies support our employees by enabling a positive work/life balance including flexible working where possible. In addition to this, the Council offers many excellent employee benefits which include, pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance programme and development opportunities.
Harlow Council is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. People with disabilities will be offered an interview where they meet the Essential Criteria on the Employee Profile.