Job Details
- 5 days in the office
- Full time
- £55.50 an hour
Job purpose:
1. To provide a comprehensive professional surveying and technical service to diagnose, specify, design and facilitate a broad range building repair works and adaptations in accordance with all statutory and local legislation as well as delivering all departmental key performance requirements.
2. To manage works from inception to completion, including the programming of works and supervision of contractors to deliver on budget, time and to the required quality.
3. To develop and monitor practices and procedures, ensuring the required quality customer focused service.
4. To promote positive and innovative working relationships with applicants, residents, building contractors, supply chain partners as well as other internal departments and external agencies for achieving best value.
5. To act as an expert within their professional field with in-depth knowledge in building practice’s.
6. To advise on all statutory and legislative change, as well as sustainable technologies
that affects, improves and promotes the service.
7. To advise and participate in the arrangement, invitation and evaluation of tenders for work, ensuring the process provides financial and auditory compliance.
Responsibilities
1. To provide expert building and technical advice for the repair and refurbishment to council void properties to achieve the authorities ‘Lettable Standard’.
2. To be responsible for site surveys, the design and preparation of drawings, specification and schedule of works, relevant to the implementation of adaptations across all housing tenures.
3. Providing technical expertise and advice on the procurement of works and contractual assistance in the administration of empty home property grants.
4. The post holders will be responsible for undertaking condition and structural surveys, providing technical advice and recommendations to clients, feasibility studies, preliminary cost estimates and a project issues risk and opportunities
(PIRO) management plan.
5. Day to day management of contractors, taking the appropriate contractual remedial action for poor performance.
6. Advise and liaise with all internal stakeholders, business units and external agencies with regards to applicable statutory notices.
7. Represent the council and act on its behalf on Party Wall matters, liaising with adjoining owners and their professional representatives in pursuit of complying and discharging the council’s obligations under the Party Wall Act.
8. Evaluate effectiveness of contracts types, contractors, products and consultants, advising and making recommendations on changes or developments to provide best value.
9. Responsible for the contract administration of the works, including valuing claims for additional works, the preparation and the certifying of interim and final payments, ensuring financial and audit compliance.
10.Manage project expenditure and provide month end cost value reconciliation reports to the Senior Building Surveyor.
11.The post holder will work under their own initiative with minimal supervision, managing and maintaining a substantial and varied caseload of projects making and being accountable for major decisions under their own direction.
12.Understand the client’s brief and develop their requirements from concept through to options and final scheme design.
If you think this job role is for you, please send your CV to rebeccabentum@carringtonblakerecruitment.com
