Building Surveyor

Purpose: CBC own and manage some of the most significant buildings and structures in Cheltenham; with over 200 commercial, leisure, and municipal buildings, including listed buildings with histories spanning hundreds of years, swimming pools, war memorials and even a football stadium. Our Property Team cover everything from day-to-day maintenance to the delivery of multi-million pound redevelopment projects. Right now, we're investing record sums into improving our special places, delivering ahead-of-the-game sustainability initiatives, property refurbishments, meeting new legislative requirements, and a number of exciting new-build projects. We're investing in our Property Team as much as we are in our properties, and we'll make sure you'll never stop learning and progressing here. Working with like-minded, equally passionate professionals, no two projects are the same and each will bring its own challenges and its own opportunities. If you're looking for challenging and rewarding surveying work on some prestigious buildings, which make Cheltenham so unique, you'll feel professionally at home here. Our vacancy for a Building Surveyor means you will be providing support across a wide variety of buildings, with a focus on commercial property within the Councils Property Stock, including planning, procurement and delivery of high quality reactive and planned maintenance projects. You will contribute to effective and efficient asset management strategies through undertaking property surveys and assisting in development and delivery of programmes of work. Key duties and responsibilities:

• To ensure building work is completed in compliance with the codes of conduct, regulations (including financial) and policies of the council
• To undertake building work in line with health and safety legislation, including monitoring that contractors are also compliant with these regulations when working in our buildings
• Manage multiple reactive and planned maintenance projects to ensure issues are prioritised and the annual maintenance plan is completed
• To ensure contractors are procured in line with our Local Government procurement
regulations
• To provide scrutiny and challenge to contractor costs, standard of work and timeliness of resolution of issues
• To build and maintain positive relationships with tenants, leaseholders, service managers and other key stakeholders who use our buildings
• To identify when more specialist contractors are required to deal with building issues
• To be proactive in proposing changes to our processes to deliver value for money from our buildings and our building service
• Any other tasks or activities that may be deemed reasonable for this role.
This job description sets out the key outcomes required. It does not specify in detail all the activities required to achieve these outcomes. General accountabilities
• Work to add value to, and be a valued member of, the team and to be valued by customers
• Maintain a safe working environment and ensuring, as reasonably practicable, that safe working practices are adopted by employees within the working environment
• Work in compliance with the codes of conduct, regulations (including financial) and policies of the council
• Exercise proper and absolute integrity in respect of all confidential matters and the
confidentiality of personal and sensitive information
• Show a commitment to safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults, young people and children, in line with the organisation's policy.
  
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