Housing Maintenance Surveyor-Social Housing

Location: Northamptonshire
Client: Local Authority
Inside IR 35
5 days in the office, no home working




About the Role
Working in responsive housing maintenance, carrying out damp and mould surveys on housing stock. This will involve using a hand held
Device and laptop. You will also be managing a small team of operatives who will carry out the repairs.
As you will be liaising with tenants, you also need to have excellent communication skills, as the role requires you to liaise with them. So, it is essential that you have experience of working within a social housing environment. This role is ongoing 6 months.


Duties/ Experience needed
A trade or construction background within social housing maintenance
You will be office based each morning and will return each afternoon for safe working purposes.
You will need to be ‘able to climb stairs and ladders. Will also need to look in loft spaces as well as tight spaces.
You will be loaned a collapsable ladder for the purpose of surveying, but the size of ladder will reflect the size of vehicle you provide.
You will make your own appointments for surveys and must be trustworthy.
Excellent computer skills so that they are able to update existing surveys when shown how to.
Must be able to prepare reports on issues discovered during the surveys and to operate a touch screen mobile phone and take photographs with it.
You will have a building/ trade background and have a reasonable skill in analysis of building components.
You will ideally have asbestos awareness training.

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