Trainee Project Surveyor

Internal Role Title: Trainee Project Surveyor

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday

Salary: £28,138 - £35,712 per annum plus car allowance of £2,272 per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)

Contract: Permanent

You’ll be delivering an effective surveying and project management service, supporting the delivery of on-going maintenance; including planned works, cyclical programmes, voids, and major/minor projects. You’ll also be helping to provide technical advice on repairs, maintenance, insurance projects and environmental works.

A strong awareness of legislation relating to health and safety, the housing health and the safety rating system (HHSRS), Regulatory Reform Order (RRO 2005), Planning, Building Control and housing repairs is essential, as well as being a full license holder and vehicle owner.

We support agile working, so you’ll be provided all IT equipment to work flexibly between your home, our Dartford office and out on sites.

Who are we?

We’re one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spreading across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future.  Our purpose is to “open doors to better lives for our customers”.  We thrive to be customer pioneers; providing a great customer experience.  

We are also proud to announce that we have been awarded an accreditation for ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work’ 2024, based on our employee feedback.

Your key tasks will include:

• Assisting in the provision of technical support to Moat and its customers, conduct property surveys, diagnose defects.
• Helping design and specify works, obtain estimates, oversee delivery, monitor project expenditure and complete sign-off.
• Acting as contract administrator or other role as appropriate and use standard forms of contract to administer the works.
• Overseeing quality control and supervision for each contract, ensuring adequate provision is made on site for building legislation and health & safety requirements.
• Undertaking inspections and audits of the contractors, servicing maintenance contract and defects within homes. Reviewing completed work against the schedule/contractors’ invoices and resolving issues as necessary.
• Assisting with the completion of fire risk assessments and signing off fire remedial works.
• Completing stock condition surveys and asbestos condition surveys, ensuring that all records are maintained appropriately.
• Providing management reports and schedules of defects when necessary and certify rectification of snagging items.
• Investigating and resolving any CRM tasks, enquires or complaints raised by customers relating to projects or services provided by Moat.

You’ll have:

• A good standard of education.
• Working knowledge of carrying out stock condition surveys and fire risk assessments.
• An awareness of legislation relating to health and safety, the housing health and the safety rating system (HHSRS), Regulatory Reform Order (RRO 2005), Planning, Building Control and housing repairs.
• Competent intermediate use of spreadsheets.
• An awareness of asset management data bases and their role.
• An awareness of processes relating to new developments.
• An ability to undertake work outside of normal office hours to meet the needs of the business and emergencies.
• Knowledge of building materials and building terminologies.

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In return, you’ll receive:

A range of benefits. For more info, check out our employee benefits video here: Our employee benefits: what we can offer you (youtube.com)

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Interested in applying? We want to hear from you!

If interested, please apply by 11pm on Wednesday 6 November 2024

We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the advert before this date if we receive good interest. We're looking forward to reading your application!

Please note we will no longer be accepting CV’s as part of the recruitment process. All candidates must now complete an application form on our career’s website.

Please note this role is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) which means that if you are successful, we will have to obtain a disclosure and barring service check before confirming the offer of employment with you.

If you require any additional adjustments to the recruitment process, please email peopleservices@moat.co.uk