Building Surveyor (Maternity Cover) in Lisburn

Choice Housing is one of Northern Ireland's leading housing associations, employing over 400 people with a nearly 50-year legacy of enriching lives through the provision of safe, high quality, and affordable homes. We manage over 13,000 homes and support around 40,000 tenants, delivering a wide range of housing solutions including general needs, sheltered housing, support accommodation, and homes for families with complex needs.

Choice is seeking a Building Surveyor (Maternity Cover) to assist the Head of Planned Maintenance in providing a range of in-house Building Surveying Services. As a Building Surveyor, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional asset management services, managing innovative projects, and making a real difference for our tenants. You will build strong relationships with tenants and stakeholders, helping to promote trust and meaningful engagement. Contributing to the development of policies and best practices that drive continuous service improvement and supporting our organisational growth.

Choice Housing is an award-winning organisation recognised for our commitment to equality, diversity, and family-friendly values; we foster an inclusive and supportive working environment. We are committed to learning and development, offering opportunities to progress your career and work towards chartership.

Our employees have access to a range of benefits:

• 22 days annual leave plus an additional 5 days after 5 years service, and 12 public holidays
• Flexible/Hybrid working opportunities anticipated 2 working days in the office
• Excellent work-life balance: we support flexible working e.g. accruing an extra 2 days annual leave per month through flexitime, starting hours between 8am and 10am and finishing between 4pm and 6pm
• Essential car user allowance
• Professional fees will be reimbursed
• 6% pension contribution
• Learning and Development opportunities to include paid courses relevant to your role e.g. RICS or CIOB
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Bereavement leave
• Death in service benefit x3 annual salary
• Health cash plan to include annual routine dental treatments, dental accident & injury, yearly optical, specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, complementary therapies e.g. physiotherapy, acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic treatments, alternative therapies e.g. reflexology, head massage, allergy testing, and yearly health screening

Further information including the job description, personal specification and further benefits can be found on the link on our website. Completed application forms should be returned by 5.00pm, Wednesday 22nd April 2026. Choice Housing is committed to a fair and efficient recruitment process. This role involves a single-stage interview designed to assess the candidate's skills and experience against the essential criteria. Please note, the Association reserves the right to create a reserve list following the interview process. The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of essential qualifications and also provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

We are also committed to adhering to the Access NI Code of Practice/Service Level of Agreement in relation to requesting disclosure checks where appropriate and processing information in accordance with the code. Choice has a policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request. Choice is committed to providing equality of opportunity to all applicants for employment, including those with criminal convictions. Information about criminal convictions will be taken into account only when the conviction is considered materially relevant to the role. NB: The panel may enhance the criteria in order to facilitate short-listing of the post. Choice Housing Ireland Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.