Senior Surveyor

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The role

Senior Surveyor - Permanent, Full-time opportunity (37.5 hours)
Beeston, Nottingham Head Office - Midlands based
£52,179 - £54,925

Join Us as a Senior Property Surveyor - Make a Lasting Impact on Homes and Lives

Are you a skilled people manager but want to maintain your surveying skills? We are looking for Senior Surveyors who have drive and passion to support a small team of surveyors whilst covering a small patch of approximately 500 properties. The ideal candidate must be a solution-focused surveyor with a passion for diagnosing and resolving complex property issues and able to share their experience with their team. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your expertise improves lives and protects vital housing assets?

We're on the lookout for an experienced Senior Property Surveyor to play a key role in our dynamic Property Directorate. This is your opportunity to take ownership of a small team of surveyors and provide advice and support on challenging repairs, structural issues, and major defects-delivering real results for our residents while balancing quality, compliance, and value for money.

In this pivotal role, you'll lead the investigation and resolution of non-routine repairs, damp and mould issues, and ad hoc planned replacements. You'll bring a proactive and resident-focused mindset, working collaboratively across departments to ensure every home is safe, secure, and well-maintained.

What You'll Be Doing

• Be the go-to expert for your team within the Property Directorate and for assisting your team in diagnosing and resolving complex building faults.
• Independently manage a varied team and a small caseload and the team duties include damp and mould, insurance works, and more significant or specialist repairs.
• Lead on the accurate diagnosis of building issues, applying your strong knowledge of damp and mould, HHSRS, and building pathology to identify and categorise Category 1 & 2 hazards.
• Ensure systems are updated by the team, H&S is complied with all necessary training is requested and updated on our systems
• Provide technical guidance and post-inspection support to colleagues, ensuring quality and consistency across all property works.
• Support the delivery of ad hoc planned works and contribute to continual service improvement through innovation and professional insight.
• Review and advise on home improvement requests with a focus on safeguarding our housing stock.
• Play an active role in cross-team initiatives that drive business improvement and enhance the resident experience.

What You'll Bring

• A proven track record in managing a team and resolving complex property repairs and maintenance issues.
• A deep understanding of housing construction, maintenance diagnostics, and the NHF Schedule of Rates.
• Strong grasp of damp and mould diagnostics and the ability to apply the HHSRS framework effectively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a talent for translating technical issues into clear, resident-friendly solutions.
• A genuine curiosity, commitment, and drive to fix things right, the first time-within budget and to the highest standard.
• Experience working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical teams.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers, this role requires a Basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.