Repairs Surveyor

Are you currently a surveyor working in the Housing Sector, or from a construction or trades background and looking for an exciting new role within an organisation committed to improving lives? If so, our Repairs Surveyor role could be the perfect job for you…

Longhurst Group is a leading housing Group across the Midlands & East of England, committed to enhancing communities and improving the lives of both our colleagues and customers. With a mission to provide quality, safe, affordable housing that build great foundations for our customers, our Property Services Team is essential in providing quality homes to our customers and ensuring swift, high-standard repairs.

As a Repairs Surveyor at Longhurst Group, you will play a crucial role in helping to manage our responsive repairs and voids contracts, ensuring that our homes are maintained in accordance with agreed quality standards. You will contribute to ensuring the delivery of a customer focussed, effective and value for money service. Further key responsibilities are listed below:

1) Carry out repairs and voids inspections and produce schedules of works.
2) Complete stock condition surveys, energy surveys and property compliance checks.
3) Carry out inspections of works in our homes to monitor quality standards and ensure that any follow up work is satisfactorily completed.
4) Ensure that all IT systems are updated in a timely manner and in accordance with the requirements of the contract and agreed processes.
5) Ensure that customers are completely satisfied with all works in their homes and any complaints are managed in a timely and sensitive way.

In order to be successful in application for our Repairs Surveyor role, you will need a proven knowledge of repairs and maintenance and ability to examine the condition of buildings, being able to advise on ways to improve them. Having experience of establishing effective working relationships with other colleagues, outside agencies and tenant groups is also a must.

Our Repairs Surveyor position is a patch-based position, contracted to 36.25 hours per week. To us, this means the majority of the time spent with our customers in their homes across Lincolnshire. There will also be some time spent in one of our offices (Rushden, Peterborough or Boston) for training or meetings when required.

This is a hugely exciting time to join Longhurst Group - not only are we continuously striving to achieve better results for our customers, but the Social Housing sector is at a crucial point with new measures, legislations and standards coming into effect imminently. Our Repairs Surveyor opportunity will help to support our customers and give them the level of homes they truly deserve. We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment that values your contributions, along with access to ongoing professional development opportunities, ensuring your skills remain at the cutting edge of the industry.

Naturally working with our customers, we need to complete pre-employment checks before you join us. This role is conditional upon receipt of two satisfactory references (one from your current employer). We also need you to tell us what you have been up to over the past 5 years as a minimum in terms of employment history. This could include carer duties, travel, seeking work, education, employment, training, or volunteering., 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.

A competitive 28-day annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
- Car Allowance = £2,600 per annum (non-contractual, annually reviewed)
- Pension Scheme with contributions matched by us up to 8.5%
- Life Cover of three times your annual salary (as part of pension scheme membership)
- Membership of our Health Care Cash Plan including Employee Assistance programme and DoctorLine
- Access to a range of discounts, including Blue Light and B&Q Tradepoint Cards
- Free access to financial education service, supporting with personalised financial information on a range of topics such as mortgages, retirement planning, pensions, saving and investments, insurance and will writing
- Free Eye Tests
- Free flu vaccinations
- Investment in your personal development through our extensive learning and development opportunities.
- Professional subscription for membership fees relating to your role, paid for by us
- Family friendly, carers leave plus other paid leave
- Long Service Awards
- Carers Networking Group and resources to support Unpaid Carers

This role currently attracts a non-contractual car allowance according to our Driving at Work Policy. This is currently set at £2,600 per annum, however eligibility for the allowance and the rate of the allowance is reviewed annually and any changes will be notified to you.