Building Surveyor – Grade H

Job Description

Job Category : Engineering & Surveying
Location :Ballard House, West Hoe Road
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £18.81
Plymouth City Council is recruiting a Building Survey to support the Facilities Management Team with the delivery of repairs and maintenance across a diverse range of properties within Plymouth City Council’s corporate property estate.

You’ll get to enjoy an amazing quality of life by the sea in the home of the UK’s first National Marine Park with the flexible ability to hybrid work with a mixture of home working and office working.

You will be delivering programmed and responsive maintenance works and condition surveys in support of the council’s maintenance and capital programme plans. This is a really exciting time to be joining the team as we undertake a programme of capital improvements to our estate.

Key activities will include carrying out site inspections to determine the most appropriate remedial works, including reviewing supplier quotations and estimates, and providing technical advice on strategic projects.

The successful applicant will have demonstrable customer service and IT skills, enabling them to respond to work requests, originating both from members of the public and colleagues.

This role is suitable for flexible working subject to the needs of the service.

Experience of working within a commercial environment, responsible for maximising opportunities to generate additional income or contract growth.

• Numerical skills to enable cost effective maintenance solutions to be selected
• Ability to work at height, in confined spaces and on site in exposed weather
• It skills to use CAD systems and Digital Mapping systems
• Communication skills to inform customers/clients of building maintenance
plans and progress. Skills need to be able to be tailored to suit the occasion
• Planning of own workload to ensure effective delivery of maintenance
works/activity
• This is a demanding role and the post holder will be required to work
autonomously, making decisions within the scope of their allocated responsibilities. Long periods of concentration are required to be able to undertake complex and detailed works, often with conflicting pressures
• Management and personal attributes to undertake the competent person function – able to effectively identify and prioritise risks; when required to act appropriately to affect devolved authority to ensure statutory compliance within the corporate estate