Adaptations Building Surveyor

Bristol, Gloucestershire
Hays Construction and Property

Your new company
Your new organisation is a local, independent, and award-winning home improvement agency. Our mission is to enable older and disabled people, those on low incomes, and other vulnerable people, to get the support they can trust to live independently in the home of their choice. We are also not-for-profit. Any money generated goes back into the organisation to support our clients and help vulnerable people pay for essential work that they can’t afford themselves.
The organisation’s purpose is to ‘support older/disabled/vulnerable people to live comfortably and independently in their own homes for as long as they choose’. Customers are at the heart of everything you do on a day-to-day basis.

Your new role

• To survey domestic properties and identify repairs, maintenance, and adaptation requirements in the homes of older, vulnerable, and disabled customers and advise upon appropriate remedial work and likely costs.
• To consult with customers and other parties regarding repairs, improvements and adaptations to their homes and prepare schedules of work and specifications, as required, taking into account their individual resources, needs and wishes and financial, legal, environmental/sustainability, building regulation and restoration matters.
• To obtain quotations for work, evaluate these quotations and advise the customer so that they may choose appropriate solutions to their needs.
• To monitor the work of contractors through to final completion, ensure that work is carried out to a high standard and that any defects are rectified to the customers’ satisfaction.
• To liaise with Local Authority surveyors, building inspectors, independent surveyors, builders, tradespeople and establish good working relationships.
• To act as the project and contracts manager, planning and overseeing building work using the appropriate form of building contract.
• To give professional advice on factors affecting existing buildings such as building defects, alterations, renovations, and extensions, as well as on the design and construction.
• Working alongside local planning bodies, clients, construction workers and other professionals to ensure projects meet the relevant safety, sustainability, and preservation standards.
• To ensure that H&S requirements under CDM are complied with.

What you’ll need to succeed

• HND / HNC in construction or equivalent.
• Experience of successfully delivering domestic residential projects requiring building regulation, planning and other permissions and in accordance with CDM requirements.
• Skilled in diagnosis of building defects, preparation of schedules of remedial work and project management to completion.
• A commitment to and passion for the purpose and values of We Care Home Improvements. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Analytically minded, with strong problem-solving skills.
• Commercially astute.
• A team player with a caring approach and a commitment to supporting continuous improvement.
• A full driving licence and ability to travel across our region

What you’ll get in return

• 32,568.60 (FTE 40,710.00)
• 30 hours per week (from Monday to Friday)
• Salary sacrifice scheme with employee contribution at up to 5% of salary, with employer contribution of a maximum 7.5%.
• 25 days per year, rising to a maximum of 28 days (1 additional day for each additional year of service) + Bank Holidays. This will be prorated based on working hours p/w

What you need to do now
If the role is of interest, and you would like to find out more, apply online today!

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