Ref: RQ1493719 Location: Derby Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5pm Pay: £30.00-£35.00ph paid weekly via umbrella - inside IR35 Duration: Ongoing Contract - Long Term Contract Duties Provide a comprehensive surveying, maintenance and monitoring service to the level expected of a Chartered Surveyor, ensuring that land, buildings and properties remain safe and operational. Carry out inspections and condition surveys and prepare reports, including defect diagnosis with priorities, recommendations and costings, breaches of legislation, inadequate fire precaution measures and DDA issues. Prepare reports, estimates, specifications, drawings and works schedules for quotations or tendering purposes in relation to maintenance work for properties being maintained. Provide building surveying for the maintenance and management of buildings, providing a comprehensive surveying and monitoring service to ensure that the properties are safe, comfortable and fit for purpose. Carry out programmes of inspection and surveys of internal and external buildings. Provide detailed reports including defect diagnosis with priorities, recommendations and costings, breaches of legislation, inadequate fire precaution measures and DDA issues etc. Carry out termly meetings to discuss any issues, work requests or complaints and agree solutions, action plans or other actions. These meetings are to be planned, minuted and suitably documented. All actions are to be allocated, targets are to be set and reviewed on a regular basis. Issues are to be escalated if not resolved according to targets and/or the customers satisfaction. Provide technical advice on the feasibility, practicality and estimated costs of proposals submitted by council officers and customers. Contribute to discussions at the design stage of new developments and major repairs programmes, particularly on materials to be used, in order to minimise future maintenance liabilities.