Building Surveyor

MMP Consultancy is currently working with one of their clients in Essex who are looking for a new Property Surveyor to join their team.

Title: Property Surveyor
Location: Essex (Just off M11)
Salary: £48,474 Benefits

The post holder will work as part of the Housing Operations Team - Property and be responsible for the technical service provision for the Housing Service in accordance with the our clients agreed policies, procedures and working practices, delivering a first class service that is value for money and customer focused.
* To work as part of the Housing Operations Team - Property dealing with all aspects of void property inspection, mutual exchanges, insurance claims, structural diagnosis, building defects, property adaptations and management, major works to properties, assisting with the delivery of the Choice Based Lettings Scheme in relation to Accompanied Viewings and Routine Inspections of properties.
* To support the team in planning budgets, identifying efficiencies in response and planned works and to ensure there is a robust method of reporting that is being adhered to.
* To represent Housing Operations - Property whilst keeping a good relationship with other council departments and elected councillors and with work colleges.
* You must embrace a fast moving and changing environment, ensuring at all times that standards are not compromised either in quality, cost or customer satisfaction.
* The tasks will involve assessing customer satisfaction, reviewing and analysing KPI`s from contractors and drafting the relevant reports, Analysing trends and contributing to improving customer satisfaction.

Title: Property Surveyor
Location: Essex (Just off M11)
Salary: £48,474 Council Benefits

MMP is working with one of their Housing Association Clients in Southend of Sea who are seeking a Surveyor.

This will be a long-term Interim role paying £240 per day

Duties:
* To carry out pre-inspections, building and stock condition surveys to identify defects and future investment requirements, including the preparation of detailed reports, specifications and cost estimates where necessary to ensure the appropriate remedial works are undertaken.
* To ensure all planned, cyclical and responsive repair works are valid and appropriate, provide value for money and are completed within the allocated budget provision, ensuring contract administration good practice, timely processing of variations and all appropriate contract documentation and accurate keeping of records pertaining to work in progress.
* To undertake post inspections of completed works to ensure quality, compliance with the Schedule of Rates, value for money and statutory compliance. Ensuring compliance with contractual term and driving performance to achieve KPI's targets and expenditure within the designated budget provision.
* To assist the delivery of internal policies, procedures and agreements and look for ways in which to continuously improve the service to achieve value for money and increased resident satisfaction.
* To follow our clients Health and Safety policies and procedures to ensure, as far as is practicable, your own safety and that of others in the workplace. You may be required to undertake specific Health and Safety roles such as Fire Warden or First Aider as part of your duties
* To co-operate with the duty holder as required by current Asbestos Regulations including complying with the Asbestos Management Plan, reporting incidents, passing on information about the presence of asbestos, attending training, project managing surveys and abatement works. Including undertaking Asbestos management surveys and updating the Asbestos data base as necessary to maintain statutory compliance.

MMP Consultancy currently has an opportunity for a Fire Door Inspector to join a Public Sector Housing organisation covering an area of South London. The role is paying £200 to £250 per day Inside IR35.

Title: Fire Door Inspector
Salary: £200 - £250 p/d LTD (Inside IR35)
Client: Public Sector Housing Provider
Contract: Interim
Location: South London

Rate dependent on qualifications and experience. Willing to look at Fire Door Installers and candidates who have experience with working with Fire Doors in general.

Fire Door Inspection Qualification Preferred: (FDIS or BRE Door Inspector)

As a Fire Door Inspector, you will:

* Undertaking visual inspections of Communal and internal doors and slightly more detailed inspections of entrance doors / flat doors.
* Report on the information for the fire door in line with current expectations onto a PDA
* Be able to identify that the frame specification is correct for the door's rating.
* Have a good working knowledge of current Health & Safety and other relevant legislation.
* Make adjustments as and if required.
* Liaise with tenants well and represent the organisation.

Please apply for more information.

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Senior Technical Officer (DFG) to join a local authority in the South West.

This will be a interim position on a 6-9 Month contract paying £49 P/H Umbrella.

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the role is to manage clients' applications for Disabled Facilities Grants, loans and repair grants, including designing and organising schemes ensuring the property meets the needs of individuals and the Decent Homes Standard.

Role Responsibilities:

• Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council's equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety, and wellbeing of self and other; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

• Arrange and undertake site visits, meeting with applicants, occupational therapists (OT's), architects and contractors to determine eligibility for financial assistance.

• Ensure project feasibility and scope of work, undertake measured surveys and to give technical advice. To liaise with other officers of the service and outside agencies.

• Produce practical specifications, detailed drawings and schedules of work for extensions and other adaptations which contractors can work from to carry out the construction work. Ensuring compliance with Building Regulations, Planning Permission, listed building consent and good practice.

• Obtain quotations and estimates from contractors and to scrutinise them and undertake a fair costings exercise for the proposed work.

• Carry out interim and final inspections and to appraise unforeseen works where technical problems have been encountered and to negotiate with applicants and contractors in matters of dispute, and to make decisions for approved grants and loans. Checking of final accounts, invoices and defects liability.

Title: Senior Technical Officer (DFG)

Salary: £49 P/H Umbrella

Location: Southwest

MMP Consultancy currently has an opportunity for a Building Surveyor to join a local authority based in Bedfordshire

This will be a permanent position paying £44,680 to £47,903 per annum Plus Benefits

The Role:

• In this role as a Housing Surveyor you will work as part of our busy Repairs, Voids and Maintenance team, creating the best place to live for our residents by overseeing the Maintenance of my clients 5000 Council owned homes.

Job purpose:

• This role is to inspect, and project manage the rectification of properties. You will carry out inspections of homes to prioritise repairs (major/minor), adaptation and improvement work.
• As part of this Housing Surveyor role, you will be responsible for; The health, safety, and condition of council owned dwellings by identification through inspection of void properties, and analysis of defects leading to project managing cost effective works to time, quality and budget.
• The planning, preparation, procurement, delivery and management of revenue and capital works programmes to time, budget and quality from inception to completion.
• Management, administration, procurement and supervision of contractors delivering inspection, risk assessment, renovation, servicing and maintenance to council owned property.
• Taking part as required in emergency planning. Carrying out surveys and inspections of council-owned property to diagnose repair defects and order effective remedial works.
• Prepare strategies, reports, and feasibility studies into specific related subjects. Occasional desktop diagnosis of customer repair enquiries offering effective remedial works to reduce the number of site inspections of council owned property completed by colleagues.
• Working with my clients Contractors, placing orders for remedial works to void properties, managing the works & monitoring from start to completion, revenue and capital budget monitoring, attending contractor meetings and occasionally supporting other teams with surveying tasks.
• The role will be to ensure that on site delivery standards are high; achieving value for money and customer satisfaction and will involve extensive liaison with external contractors including budget management, design, agreement of specifications, procurement, contract administration, financial monitoring, Stock Condition / HHSRS surveys, building pathology and interaction with tenants and leaseholders.
• You will be HND or degree qualified, or, alternatively have relevant experience in an appropriate profession.
• You will have some experience of manging capital and revenue works ideally in a social housing environment, with an understanding of housing, procurement, project management and budget management.
• The ideal person would be able to manage their own workloads, often to defined timescales, on a range of projects.

Title: Building Surveyor

Salary: £44,680 to £47,903 per annum Plus Benefits

Location: Bedfordshire

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Capital Programme Contract Manager to join a local authority based in Somerset.

This will be an Interim position 6-9 months paying £433.25 P/Day Umbrella.

The Role:

• Deliver Housing Capital Programme contracts ensuring the objectives, targets and priorities of the Council are achieved whilst remaining compliant within statutory regulations.
• Provide high quality Housing Capital Programme service expertise to assist in the delivery of the Council's aims, objectives and operational planning.

Job Purpose:

• Deliver Capital Programme contacts across the following areas of responsibility: 1. Provide effective contract management which delivers efficient Capital Programmes that are customer focused, deliver value for money and maintains properties to an appropriate standard.
• Manage external contractors to deliver excellent performance at all times for all workstreams allocated to them.
• Actively engage with residents in relation to projects and assist in continually improving resident satisfaction with service delivery.
• Assist in procurement activities for Capital Programmes to be allocated to them.
• Ensure accurate records are kept for all Capital Programmes allocated to them and that appropriate reporting systems are in place.
• Respond to emergencies, on occasion during unsocial hours, and participate in a rota to provide response cover.
• Contribute to operational risk management activities, within the remit of the post.
• Actively participate in both corporate and post specific learning and development activities and to continually develop skills and abilities within the role.
• Assist in setting clear standards and performance targets to all Capital Programmes allocated to them, and monitor and report on progress in meeting them.
• Assist in providing property related guidance and awareness training to service delivery teams.
• Ensure that subject service requests and complaints in relation to all workstreams allocated to them are promptly investigated and the finding(s) acted on in a timely and proportionate manner.
• Assist in identifying improvements to processes and systems to ensure the effective and efficient provision of the service in order to meet customer need. 13.Use information technology and digital transformation to deliver an effective, efficient, responsive and e-enabled service.
• Assist on internal and external audits for all workstreams allocated to them.
• Attend meetings with the Council and other organisations, including public groups as required, sometimes outside normal office hours.
• Be responsible for the effective management of budgets for all workstreams allocated to them, including monitoring and delivery of required works within budget.
• Deputise for the Housing Capital Programme Manager as and when required.
• Implement appropriate quality systems, including post inspections of work undertaken, to ensure standards are met for all workstreams allocated to them.
• To take responsibility for your own health and safety, and that of anybody else who may be affected by your acts or omissions.
• Assist in the integration of new services, functions, and staff into the team in line with corporate strategies and any future service change.
• Any other reasonable duties of a similar nature.

Title: Capital Programme Contract Manager

Salary: £433.25 P/Day Umbrella

Location: Somerset