Building Maintenance Inspector

Adecco; London; Hybrid

Job description

Job Description

• Building Maintenance Inspector
• Public Sector - Local Authority
• Full Time - Monday to Friday, 36 hours per week
• Temporary Role - 3 months with possible extension
• paying up to £33.27 per hour Umbrella
• IT Equipment provided
• ASAP Start
• Mileage / public transport expenses paid for site visits

Adecco are currently recruiting for a Building Maintenance Inspector on behalf of our client, a South-West London local authority.

Our client is seeking an experienced Building Maintenance Inspector to join their Southern Area Housing Team, where your expertise will make a tangible difference in the community. The successful candidate will be a skilled professional who can provide technical support for routine and non-routine repairs, ensuring the highest standards of property maintenance across their housing stock.

Initially, this role will be fully site and office based in and around Wandsworth, London. Once initial training has been complete, inspectors can then work from home one day per week.

You will be responsible for managing a patch of approximately 2,300 properties. Please note that this figure includes leasehold properties for which internal works are not undertaken, resulting in a slightly smaller effective management area.

Experience in structural monitoring is advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Support: Provide technical support for routine and non-routine repairs.
2. Void Properties: Ensure efficient processing of void properties within specified timescales.
3. Correspondence: Investigate and respond to repair and maintenance correspondence.
4. Repair Orders: Prepare and issue repair orders, assist administrative officers, monitor additional works, and conduct risk assessments.
5. Inspections: Perform pre- and post-work inspections, validate invoices, and ensure timely contractor payments.
6. Major Works: Prepare referral forms for major works schemes, gather details, and estimate costs.
7. Quotations: Coordinate competitive quotations and draft technical specifications for minor works.
8. Tenant Requests: Respond to tenant and leaseholder repair requests, approve works, and provide documentation.
9. Home Assessments: Assess home conditions and prepare recommendations for external decoration programs.
10. Computer Systems: Use council-operated computer systems, ensuring accurate information.
11. Surveys and Estimates: Provide technical condition surveys and repair cost estimates for other departments.
12. Insurance Claims: Report on insurance claims, liaise with assessors, prepare specifications, and assess technical reports.
13. Health and Safety: Ensure contractor compliance with Health and Safety regulations, liaise with safety advisors and inspectors.
14. Safeguarding: Understand and fulfill duties related to child protection and safeguarding, and be aware of responsibilities under MARAC for domestic abuse.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.