Building Surveyor
Hourly Rate: £28
Location: Blackley, Manchester (M9)
Job Type: Full-time, Temporary Contract
Join our Housing Operations team as a Building Surveyor, focusing on housing disrepair. This role involves carrying out professional technical surveying duties, delivering high-quality inspections, schedules of work, and expert technical advice. You will act as a crucial link between contractors, legal teams, and housing officers, ensuring that cases progress efficiently and works are completed to required standards, timescales, and legal obligations.
Day-to-day of the role:
*Technical Inspections & Reporting:
*Carry out technical inspections of disrepair properties within required timescales.
*Produce clear, detailed, accurate schedules of work and technical reports.
*Validate and interpret expert reports, ensuring recommendations are appropriate, cost-effective, and deliverable.
*Conduct joint inspections and support the production of Scott Schedules and other legal documentation.

*Case & Legal Support:
*Liaise with contractors, legal representatives, housing officers, and internal teams to help progress disrepair cases efficiently.
*Provide technical evidence and, where necessary, act as a single joint expert or attend court as a professional witness.
*Support timely case closure in line with legal and regulatory requirements.

*Contractor & Works Management:
*Provide technical oversight to ensure works are delivered to required standards, budgets, and timescales.
*Monitor contractor performance, challenge costs where necessary, and ensure works meet both quality and compliance expectations.

*Service Improvement & Reporting:
*Contribute to improved reporting, forecasting, data accuracy, and case management processes.
*Support continuous improvement of the repairs and maintenance service, ensuring a Right First Time approach.
*Maintain excellent communication with residents throughout the process.

*Required Skills & Qualifications:

*Proven experience working in housing disrepair, including inspections, diagnostics, and legal processes.
*Strong understanding of building construction, standards, HHSRS, damp and mould, and local authority housing regulations.
*Ability to write high-quality technical reports and manage multiple cases simultaneously.
*Experience liaising with solicitors, contractors, loss adjusters, and internal stakeholders.
*Desirable Skills / Requirements:

*Construction-related qualification or equivalent experience.
*Experience of CDM, planning/building regulations, insurance claims, and voids/major works.
*Strong negotiation, communication, and project management skills.
*Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
*Benefits:

*Competitive hourly rate.
*Opportunity to work in a dynamic and impactful role within housing operations.
*Exposure to diverse professional challenges and continuous professional development.