Salary: £36,000 - £41,000 (dependent on experience)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Head Office - West Didsbury
Benefits: Competitive pension, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans for public transport plus much more.
The Contract Surveyor will be responsible for delivering planned and cyclical investment works, ensuring all projects are managed in line with business and customer expectations.
What you'll be doing:
- Contract & financial management of planned & cyclical works from initial feasibility through to defects period sign off.
- Managing projects in line with time, cost and quality milestones.
- Monitor health and safety to ensure all construction activities are being carried out safely in accordance with H&S requirements & documentation.
- Complete regular site audits & inspections to ensure that a high quality product is being delivered and take action to maintain standards as required.
- Chair regular progress meetings with consultants & contractors, and associated record keeping including minutes and progress reports.
- Ensure contractors perform in accordance with SLA,s agreed KPI's, all relevant legislation, CDM, Building regs & statutory bodies.
- Produce regular reports on the performance of contractors and consultants.
- Provide detailed specifications, drawings, and tender documentation for ad hoc projects including planned & cyclical maintenance works using appropriate forms of contract.
- Update in house systems with completion data ensuring that processes are in place to allow GPHG to monitor all aspects of contracts.
What you'll need:
- HNC/D (NVQ Level 4) or Degree in a Building related discipline.
- Previous experience in a similar property related role.
- Up to date knowledge of the legislation & statutory obligations that govern the housing sector.
What we need from you:
- Significant knowledge of the building industry including investment and maintenance in social housing, with relevant contract management experience delivering of planned and cyclical investment programmes.
- Proven experience of managing contractors and consultants, developing successful relationships, while achieving challenging targets and objectives.
- Good knowledge of using data for decision making, reporting on performances, identifying trends and patterns and making changes accordingly.
- Significant experience of working to detailed programmes and plans with relevant timescales relating to work schedules.
- Managing individual project budgets.
- Commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places.
- Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity.
- A passion for customer service.
- Representing great places at external stakeholders meetings.
- You will be required to attend a number of face to face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning as part of your role and is of equal importance as the day to day aspects.
What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment:
- Pension | DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)
- WPA | Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available - option to increase & add family members
- Annual leave |Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holidays
- Flexi time | Allows colleagues to achieve a healthy work life balance whilst carrying out requirement of the role. A maximum of 13 days flexi can be taken in a year
- Reward & Recognition | You Count Rewards are individual reward's for going 'above & beyond' Compliance based training bonuses paid annually
- Professional fees | The business pays the cost of one professional membership fee for each colleague
- The Market Place |high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
Health and Wellbeing Initiatives | Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing
Great Places Housing Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all our colleagues to share this commitment. All successful applicant(s) will be subject to a basic criminal records background check. Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding children/young people & vulnerable adults can be found in the Great Places Housing Group Safeguarding Policy & Recruitment Policy on our website.
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