The vacancy

About the role
As Planned Investment Surveyor you will act as a single point of contact for the specification and project management of investment surveys to our properties and assets. To be successful in this Surveyor role you’ll need excellent stakeholder management to establish positive working relationships with colleagues, customers, and suppliers to ensure delivery of high-quality service in accordance with SBHG operational plans, contract requirements, and statutory obligations.

Reporting into our Repairs Surveying Manager you will collaborate with colleagues across SBHG to plan, contract manage and deliver annual planned and cyclical maintenance and investment surveying projects. Your work will be invaluable in helping us to improve and maintain our stock, ensuring our homes provide customers with great places to live, and that condition data is accurate to ensure SBHG assets are maintained to the required standard.

What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Surveyor consistently working to the highest standards ensuring quality and compliance. You’ll be self-motivated and highly organised with great customer service skills and a willingness to travel to undertake site visits and physically inspect properties. You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of Building Regulations and CDM, HHSRS assessments, Party Walls, Aids & Adaptations, Decent Homes, and Planning/Building control.
• Identifying, procuring, and managing investment and cyclical works contracts
• Producing defects, improvement, and insurance reports
• Undertaking building, party wall, adaptations & stock condition surveys
• Specifying and tendering contracts for investment and cyclical works
• Project managing/quality assuring works undertaken by contractors.
• Delivering successful Section 20 works programmes
• Full current UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.

Essential Qualifications

• A recognised technical qualification or professional qualification in building/surveying, e.g., BSc, MCIOB or MRICS

If you are interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the job description.

This role is with Shepherds Bush Housing Association who are now part of The Guinness Partnership

About Shepherds Bush Housing Group
We’re a forward-thinking housing group in the heart of west London. Since we started in 1968 our ethos has remained the same: to provide affordable homes and services that build communities.

Here at Shepherds Bush Housing Group, we are passionate about what we do and apply our innovative outlook to find new ways to invest in people, communities, and residents.

We offer careers that are both exciting and rewarding. We’re looking for people who bring a variety of different skills and experiences to help us continue to make a difference to the local communities we work within.

This is a unique opportunity to work for an award-winning organisation and genuinely contribute to the achievement of our corporate aims and objectives.

What we can offer you
Please follow the link to read more about our great benefits and what we can offer you: https://www.sbhg.co.uk/life-at-sbhg

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We commit to ensuring that equality and diversity are integrated at the core of our business and respond to the needs of our employees, workers, stakeholders and customers. To read more about our commitment, please visit the following link: https://www.sbhg.co.uk/equality-and-diversity

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if enough applications are received.

Our mission

We're much more than a landlord. We build communities by providing homes that people can afford and invest in people and places.

We have more than 5000 homes throughout west London and are building more. We've been doing this since 1968 and are a trusted part of the community.

Our mission is social heart, business head, local impact.

Social heart: Our way of working builds and strengthens communities.
Business head: Our way of working means we make a lasting return on investment.
Local impact: Our way of working responds to what's needed locally.