Job Introduction
Lead Surveyor
Permanent
Bruce Kenrick House, Kings Cross, London
£65,377 to £72,642 per annum for 35 hours per week.
Are you looking for a fulfilling and rewarding career opportunity working for one of London’s biggest housing associations, Notting Hill Genesis? Can you provide a first-class service to ensure the safety and comfort of our residents?
Main Responsibility
We’re offering a unique position as a Lead Surveyor to join our newly formed Repairs Team. The Lead Surveyor is a key role responsible for leading and managing surveying projects, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of survey data, and supervising a regional team of senior surveyors and building surveyors. This role is pivotal in our organisation, combining technical expertise with leadership skills to ensure that survey projects are executed efficiently and in accordance with industry standards and project requirements.
You will work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across NHG and externally to drive improvements and offer a first-class service to our customers. As a member of the repairs Senior Management Team, you will be a key contributor to the development and implementation of our new Repair Strategy and lead the transformation of our services.
This is a fulfilling opportunity to enhance and improve the lives of our residents.
We value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that great service starts with great people, and are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
You promote a collaborative culture where you support and encourage your teams to deliver positive change. You take pride in fulfilling consistently effective and efficient repairs, maintenance and inspections to ensure that our residents feel safe and well supported. Your resident-centric approach and conscientious processes and procedures show your commitment and dedication to improving customer satisfaction.
Necessary experience and skills –
- Appropriate senior surveying qualifications such as BSc or MSc, Chartered Member of RICs, CIOB
- In depth post qualification relevant experience (5 years minimum) providing services to residential property owners and managers.
- Experience of leading high performing teams within a surveying and/or repairs environment
- Significant experience in project management of major works, along with experience in preparing tender docs, scope of works and cost appraisal and dealing with interim/final accounts.
- Experience of delivering repair improvement plans across complex delivery models
- Experience of delivering performance and intelligence projects in a repairs or property services environment to drive service improvement
- Customer focussed mindset
What’s in it for me?
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts
- Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life assurance x4 annual salary
How to apply/selection process
Step 1 – Send your CV and Supporting Statement
Step 2 – Successful candidates will be selected for an interview after the advert has closed
Step 3 – Interview will consist of competency-based questions and a presentation – you will be told in advance what you need to prepare for
Closing date: Sunday 07 January 2024
Shortlisting date: W/c Monday 08 January 2024
Interview date: Tuesday 16 January 2024
Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our recruitment partner – Retinue Solutions – tom.bullock@retinue-solutions.com to discuss your requirements. Please contact Retinue to dicuss any questions around this vacancy.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a Basic check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
About the Company
Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 67,000 homes and employ around 1,500 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://www.nhg.org.uk/about-us/
Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.
Our pledges
We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.
We have under-representation of ethnically diverse colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage ethnically diverse candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.
We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation
To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.
