Repairs & Maintenance Surveyor

A surveyor has specific requirements to ensure we are meeting regulatory, statutory, and health & safety. With responsibility for ensuring our services meet operational standards and targets, provide value for money and involve colleagues and customers to improve service delivery. Your role will be to be the technical lead across the locality, carrying out all day to day surveying functions and responding to any technical queries raised by the residents, locality leads or colleagues. This will include carrying out pre and post inspections, ensure good standard of workmanship and service is delivered on time and within budget. Part of this role will be to instigate and monitor all remedial or necessary actions including communication of survey outcomes, requirements, completions and further works to colleagues and other stakeholders. Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer., Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require evidence of the required certificates and qualifications for this role. Without this evidence, you would be unable to commence employment at GreenSquareAccord.

You will require a HNC in construction or equivalent and / or a time served trades background in carpentry or plumbing with a recognised qualification i.e. City & Guilds. Professional qualification in a maintenance, construction, RICS / CIOB or equivalent, H & S (NEBOSH or equivalent) isn`t essential but will be beneficial for this role. You will be able to manage difficult conversations and conflict effectively. This will also include dealing with complex problems that have a variety of solutions and making the case for the best one.

We are GSA. We provide affordable homes and services that create a foundation from which people in our communities can thrive. We own and manage 25,000 homes in diverse communities across the West Midlands and South West. Everyone deserves a home. It`s a place from which we build our future. We thrive at home. We are proud to play an active role in dealing with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most. Often a home is all someone needs, but when our customers need more, we offer a range of services, including care, money advice and coaching to support them. We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system. The GSA Way We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way. A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is. Our five core commitments are:

• We believe our customer is everything
  
  In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes.
• Trust based flexible working and supportive and friendly teams
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement, increasing to 30 days
• One day off for your birthday
• Opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A defined contribution pension scheme GSA matches up to 6% contributions
• We offer a service which provides 24/7 online GP appointments, second medical opinions, health checks, mental health support, 24/7 medical health helpline, wellbeing app, nutrition advice and fitness plans and legal and financial support.
• Access to Blue Light discount card membership
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Eligible for occupational sick pay