Housing Property Surveyor

Working hours: 37.5 per week (banking 30 minutes per week to be used towards the shut down between Christmas and the New Year), Harlow Council is looking to recruit a Property Surveyor on permanent basis to support its landlord obligations in managing our property assets. Harlow Council currently looks after circa 9,000 homes and 2,400 leasehold properties, and our journey of transformation in the past few years has been remarkable and led to sector and national recognition, but there is more to do.

As part of that success, we have invested over £100 million in our housing stock to provide better homes for our tenants and leaseholders.

As a Property Surveyor you will be responsible for:

Inspecting, scheduling and validation of minor building defect projects
RTB and solicitor queries for disposals and private sales of leasehold properties
Management of residential insurance claims
Mutual exchange inspections, scheduling and validation
Procurement, tendering and evaluation of small works projects
Technical support to the more complex responsive and PPM activities of our maintenance partner/s
Disrepair claim management; inspection, scheduling, reporting and validation of remedial work
Preparing design solutions, BCntl applications and specifying material and workmanship requirements
Performance management of Void property refurbishments; scoping and QC of non-routine works

Experience of supervising and monitoring the performance of external contractors and consultants. You must have a good understanding of Health and Safety and Building Legislation. Qualified to a minimum HNC/HND or equivalent standard, you must also be experienced in undertaking pre and post inspections of works., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

Our policies support our employees by enabling a positive work/life balance including flexible working where possible. In addition to this, the Council offers many excellent employee benefits which include, pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance programme and development opportunities.