Job Title: Neighbourhood Surveyor
Location: Leeds
Salary: £37,378.83 plus Essential Car User Allowance based on the emissions of vehicle
Job Type: Permanent, Full time.
The closing date for this role is: Thursday 13th April 2023.
Interviews will take place via Teams on: Monday 17th April 2023.
Leeds Federated is a housing association with around 4,300 properties across Leeds, Wakefield and North Yorkshire. Our mission is to enable the maximum number of people to access and live sustainably in good value, affordable housing.
About the role:
We now have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and efficient Surveyor to play a key role in continuing the delivery of outstanding services, making a difference to the lives of our customers that live in our homes and communities.
Based within the local Neighbourhood Team you will act as a source of technical expertise for the maintenance of our assets, specifying and managing the delivery of void repairs and complex reactive repairs, and supporting the effective coordination of planned and cyclical maintenance. The Neighbourhood Surveyor has a key responsibility in ensuring that our customers receive a high-quality repairs service that delivers value for money and achieves high levels of customer satisfaction.
The Neighbourhood Surveyor works closely with other members of their Area Team to maximise the performance of our assets while achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and tenancy and neighbourhood sustainability.
Within this role you’ll be responsible for:
- Delivering an excellent standard of customer service and achieves high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Diagnosing and specifying repairs effectively.
- Managing the delivery of void repairs.
- Contributes to strategic asset management work and investment planning.
- Collaborates with Area Team colleagues to maximise the performance of assets and ensure tenancy and neighbourhood sustainability.
Our ideal candidate will:
- Have excellent people, project and contractor management skills.
- Be experienced in construction and maintenance, ideally within the Housing Association or Local Authority sector.
- Have experience of working with tenants, budgets / budget control, performance monitoring and statistical reporting techniques.
- Be computer literate (experience of a computerised reporting system would be advantageous).
- Be qualified to level 5 in a Building Qualification.
- Have use of a vehicle and have a valid driving licence.
Benefits:
As well as a competitive salary we can offer you:
- Agile working environment.
- 30 days annual leave.
- DC pension schemes.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Health cash plan.
Additional Information:
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted regarding an interview.
We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.
Leeds Fed is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in everything we do, and therefore welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Please click on the APPLY button to be redirected to the company’s careers page to apply for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Neighbourhood Plans and Housing Enabling Officer, Planning Officer, Development Officer, Planner, Spatial Planning, Development Planning Coordinator, Planning Technician, Housing Officer, Neighbourhood Planning Officer, Development Technician, Planning Administrator, Planning Controller, Planning Consultant, Development Control Planner, Town and Country Planning, Town and Country Planner may also be considered for this role.
