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Senior Building Surveyor

Employer
MJH Recruitment Solutions
Location
Central London
Salary
£65k - 70k per year + up to 20% bonus + benefits
Closing date
19 Jul 2022

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Job position
Associate, Executive, Qualified / Chartered
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Function
Surveyor - Building

Job Details

We are delighted to be recruiting a Senior Building Surveyor for a socially & ethically conscious REIT firm with over £580m social housing assets under management.

Founded in 2004, our client has built specialist investments teams in a number of key strategic sectors including improving the lives of vulnerable people across the UK by meeting the critical demand for specialised supported housing. Their homes give residents greater independence and dignity than traditional institutional care whilst still addressing their specialist care needs.

This is an autonomous role working exclusively within their REIT. You’d be reporting to a Property Director to help support the day to day project work on their various sites. It presently owns c500 housing sites across the UK.

Purpose of role:

The purpose of this role is the be the field based visiting properties on both a cyclical and a needs basis. The role includes inspecting refurbishments during and after works, checks to ensure that our registered providers are adhering to the terms of their lease, managing planned maintenance and other small building projects, and advising of suitability of proposed portfolios. This role will include a significant amount of travel all over the UK to inspect portfolio assets, as well as attendance at in the London office at least once per month.

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify repair and defects, advising on repair, maintenance and restoration.
  • Assess and advise on building design, to ensure properties meet the needs of the proposed client group, the housing sector’s standards and expectations, and ESG requirements.
  • Manage small scale building projects to time, quality and cost, liaising with external contractors, consultants and customers as required.
  • Negotiate/advise on Dilapidations (when there’s a legal liability for disrepair.)
  • Advise and assess the Health & Safety, Building Regulations and FRA aspects of their buildings.
  • Compile snagging lists of works where necessary and manage them to their completion.
  • Assess reinstatement values for insurance purposes.
  • Organise documents for tender and liaise with developers, consultants and contractors on works.
  • Providing ad-hoc advice, reviews and opinions on an ongoing basis to the Housing team.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

  • MRICS qualified (ideally 2-3 years post qualified experience)
  • UK Full Driving Licence
  • MUST: Notable & curent experience of building services/surveying in the Social Housing Sector
  • A willingness to travel, including overnight to visit sites
  • Interest in and firm knowledge of the built environment, including building regulations and H&S legislation

Qualities and Competencies:

  • Able to quickly identify and focus on what is technically relevant, analysing problems in order to recommend solutions.
  • Is persuasive, convincing and a strong negotiator when representing the companies interests robustly and fairly.
  • Focuses on compliance, risk, and health and safety in site and residential settings.
  • Can present confidently to large groups.
  • Good team player - prepared to ‘roll sleeves up’ and help out
  • Possesses strong organisational, report writing and record keeping skills, with an eye for detail
  • Car driver with Full UK licence

Benefits:

  • Remuneration subject to experience and fit. Guide to max £70k basic (Dependent on experience) + up to max 20% bonus  
  • 25 days paid holiday per calendar year, 3 must be taken at Christmas. This increases with length of service to a maximum of 28 days.
  • Family (spouse & children) Private Health Insurance
  • Health Care cash plan, currently with Medicare.
  • Company pension

Lastly, company culture is incredibly important to them.  They want people to work hard, act professionally, feel challenged by their work, and ultimately develop personally. They also want their staff  to enjoy their responsibilities and have fun and throughout the year they organise a number of social events to bring everyone together including team away days and company off sites. 

Standard office hours are 9.00am – 5.30pm although flexibility will be expected where necessary to get things done.

 

If you can demonstrate the right professional and personal qualities required of the role, please do not hesitate to contact us for a confidential chat!

At mjhr it’s simple. Outstanding client relations and recruitment expertise, choose the experts… we make things happen. If you have the necessary skills to meet this specification, drop us a line for a confidential chat on 0207 932 0090

Company

Since 2000 MJH Recruitment has specialised in recruiting for the building and surveying industry. We pride ourselves on providing an exemplary recruitment service and matching top notch consultancy clients with talented job seekers.

Over the past 17 years, our focus has never changed: we hunt out candidates of the highest calibre in the following specialities:

  • Project Managers
  • Quantity Surveyors / Cost Consultants
  • Building Surveyors

The majority of our appointments are in London and across the South East and we work with the following types of businesses:

  • Professional quantity surveying practices (PQS)
  • Building consultancies
  • Project management specialists
  • Multidisciplinary consultancies

Why us?

Our knowledge of the construction consultancy industry is second to none and we have nurtured longstanding relationships with the brightest and the best.

With mjhr it’s simple. Outstanding customer relations and unrivalled recruitment expertise, choose the experts.

MJH Recruitment Solutions is a fully compliant corporate member of the recruitment employment confederation (No. 00068790) and as such upholds a strict code of recruiting ethics and conduct. We are also a member of the construction body of the Recruitment Employment Confederation and we are also a member of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (No: 00075263).    

You can contact us on 0207 932 0090 or please visit www.mjhrecruitment.com

We make things happen.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0207 932 0090
Location
7 New Quebec St
Marylebone
London
London
W1H 7RH
GB

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