Asset Management Asset Surveying Lead

For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens. The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues. Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management. DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings – it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

• Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
• Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
• Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
• Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
• Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
• SUPPORT: the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team. Supporting the Head of Investment Planning and Asset Surveying (G6), and working closely with the Asset Management Investment Planning Lead (G7), you will manage a team of surveyors and engineers to maintain the asset condition data, provide lifecycle planning, and provide technical support to operational and projects delivery teams.

The role will include management responsibility for technical review of reactive and remedial works orders, and support to the application and alignment to ISO 55001 with the aim of optimising the asset portfolio for DWP employees, customers and other stakeholders whilst at the same time maintaining the critical requirement of asset compliance.

Key accountabilities

• Supports the Head of Investment Planning and Asset Surveying with the management and delivery of asset surveying and technical advice across the Estates property portfolio.
• Responsible for the management and deliverables of the asset data and asset condition surveying process, including management of external suppliers, monitoring, reporting and assurance of accuracy of asset data.
• Responsible for identification of poor performing assets, repeat failures and obsolete assets through collaboration with wider estates colleagues, and interrogation of MI, to ensure review/inclusion in the LCW investment planning process.
• Manages and develops the Forward Maintenance Register, including overseeing external suppliers to produce an accurate data set capable of defining Lifecycle demand and producing project plans.
• Supports the LCW project prioritisation process, by providing knowledge/expertise and technical support, drawing on regional surveying team expertise and professional services suppliers for specialist advice as required.
• Supports strategy for LCW expenditure to meet DWP’s objectives (safe, compliant and operational) whilst identifying and promoting opportunity for investment to drive longer term value, and meet sustainability targets.
• Management responsibility for the development of project scopes and total budgeted costs for inclusion in the LCW planning process.
• Supports the Capital Projects and Investment Team in the delivery of the LCW program, performing the role of internal Client function.
• Fosters a ‘one team’ culture of quality and continuous improvement across the extended organisation to include the Integrator and supplier partners, on a day to day as well as strategic basis.
• Supports and deputises for the Head of Investment Planning and Asset Surveying as required.