Technical Surveyor - Social Housing - Ox1

The Construction Index Ltd; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000

Job description

Technical Surveyor - Social Housing - Ox1

• Type: Full Time
• Region: UK - South East
• Town/City: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Posted: 19/03/2025
• Listed in: Procurement / Supply Chain

Job Description

About us:

Daniel Owen is an established recruitment consultancy specialising in the placement of quality temporary and permanent workers to all roles in the Built Environment. Working with some of the UK's largest and most respected construction, Facilities Management, maintenance and engineering companies.

The Role:

The role will investigate and provide advice on the resolution of complex maintenance issues such as building disrepair, structural failure, and defect analysis, raised either internally or by our customers.

You'll own the day to day technical advice on design, construction, maintenance, and repair to internal and external stakeholders, in house delivery teams and external contractors.

You'll also be responsible for:

1. Preparing reports, specifications, drawings and contract documents for a range of repair and maintenance construction activity, to include working drawings and detailed cost estimates.
2. Ensuring works are completed safely, to the required standard and specification, in the most effective and efficient manner and to a high level of customer satisfaction.
3. Managing contracts for maintenance works - monitoring performance by site visits, liaising and negotiating with contractors, external consultants, and other professionals to ensure contracts are delivered to time, cost constraints, according to CDM requirements and to quality standards.
4. Maintaining high quality data within the property systems.
5. Ensuring a detailed local knowledge of customer, asset and investment needs across your locality.
6. Developing own capability through continual personal and professional development to ensure knowledge is kept up to date.

Benefits included are:

• £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme.
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days).
• Industry leading pension scheme, 12% matched contributions plus life cover at 4x your salary.
• Flexible working - we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible.
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover.
• Discounted travel insurance.