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Regional Maintenance Surveyor, Leicester
Client:
Advance
Location:
Leicester
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
6
Posted:
22.03.2025
Expiry Date:
06.05.2025
Job Description:
Position: Regional Maintenance Surveyor
Hours: 35 contracted hours per week
Salary: Up to £42698.70 per annum
Closing Date: 30th March 2025
Interview Dates: 4th April 2025 and 7th April 2025
Job ref: 4492
We regret to inform you that Advance is unable to accept any sponsorship requirements.
About the Role:
Would you like to work somewhere where you get to make a real difference every day?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Regional Maintenance Surveyor at Advance in Leicester and surrounding areas. Advance is a specialist supported housing association that is on an exciting journey to deliver more services and develop more housing for people with learning difficulties, disabilities and supporting people towards greater independent living.
The role will include:
* Working as an integral member of the maintenance team providing technical advice to improve quality standards of the responsive repairs, void repairs, cyclical and planned services.
* Surveying and managing the repairs/planned/cyclical/compliance works in partnership with our appointed contractors.
* Assisting in the management of local contractors to ensure the supplier delivers to agreed customer satisfaction and quality KPIs.
* Ensuring projects are meeting performance targets and budget.
About You:
As the successful Regional Maintenance Surveyor, you will have:
* Manage annual maintenance programme for a regional area, ensuring quality, performance, and good communication with staff, stakeholders, and residents.
* Act as Contract Manager for regional responsive, cyclical, and planned maintenance contracts, monitoring contractors for quality, performance, and value.
* Oversee compliance and Health & Safety works, including gas servicing, legionella, asbestos, fire safety, and electrical certifications.
* Conduct periodic stock condition surveys and update property databases.
* Provide expert technical advice and inspect/diagnose repair issues, ensuring quality and performance targets are met.
* Organise and implement works such as aids & adaptations, property improvements, and major repairs in line with relevant guidelines and regulations.
* Oversee repairs and alterations to office premises.
* Manage customer complaints, ensuring prompt inspection, resolution, and responses in line with policies.
It is important to be able to work closely and collaboratively with others as part of a team, but also be able to work on your own initiative and take decisions when required. The ability to communicate effectively with staff, key stakeholders and residents regarding maintenance activities is essential.
Please note this is a regional role and the region’s properties are widely dispersed across Leicester with areas around Birmingham, therefore you must be a driver with access to your own transport.
For more information about the role please contact, Christopher Scott on 07753823919 or [emailprotected] :
About the organisation:
Advance is a national, not-for-profit provider of housing and support services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Our vision is to transform lives; providing the best quality housing and support services so that people can live the lives they choose, achieve their personal goals, feel valued and know their voices are heard.
We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about making Advance a great place to work. We invest in our staff, providing the training and support you need to succeed in your role, gain industry-recognised qualifications and realise your career aspirations.
We are an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are firmly committed to recruiting the best colleagues regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and to supporting customers from similarly diverse backgrounds.
All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.
Benefits of working for Advance:
* Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata for part time hours).
* Sector specific training is provided as part of induction plus opportunities for professional development.
* Access to Perks at Work where you can obtain great discounts of cinema tickets, shopping vouchers and much more.
* Long service awards payable in 5 year increments.
* Golden Hello/refer a friend receive up to £500.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
* Free DBS (Disclosures and Barring Service).
* Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance.
* Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment).
Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.
We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.
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