Maintenance Surveyor

Sevenoaks, Kent
West Kent Housing Association

Maintenance Surveyor (£41,693 – £45,862 per-annum, full-time, permanent)

Job Role

As a Maintenance Surveyor you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our residents by ensuring that our homes meet the necessary standards.

You will carry out thorough technical assessments on a range of defects and issues including damp and mould, recommending appropriate maintenance and repair solutions, and ensuring these are completed in a timely manner and to a good standard. You will also carry out disrepair inspections.

You will play a key role in protecting West Kent’s interests by producing accurate and timely reports and ensuring identified issues are resolved on time, within budget and to the required standard. As part of the role, you will be required to liaise with specialists and insurers as required on structural works and other claims and manage these through works stage and completion of the claim, ensuring the Associations losses are mitigated. You may also be required to attend Court from time to time.

You will need to be highly organised with excellent communication skills and to provide customers with clear, accurate and timely information, consider their individual needs and ensure the receive a positive experience.

Excellent knowledge of construction is essential including building defects and regulations, preferably to degree level, together with sound knowledge of the CDM Regulations and the ability to analyse technical information.

About Us

At West Kent we’re passionate about the role a housing association can play in society and believe the values of an organisation are what makes it special. Our vision is to deliver places to live and space to grow for our current and future residents.

Our values guide us to how we do things from delivering on our promises, working with honesty, integrity, and flexibility, showing compassion and self-awareness, as well as a commitment to learning and equally important working hard and having fun.

Benefits

We offer a great package – generous pension and life cover, health cash plan, flexible leave package which includes an additional three days leave for our Christmas closure, paid time off to volunteer and an annual grant to support your wellbeing. Please see our website for more details about our benefits package.

Application Information

We will only consider applications submitted with a full CV and completed supporting statement.

You can access the full job description in the ‘Work for us’ section on our website –

For an informal discussion, please contact Kelly Webb, Senior Contract Manager .uk.

Applicants will not be contacted until after the closing date.

Advert Closing Date: 12 noon on 16 August 2023

Interview Date: 6 September 2023