Maintenance Surveyor

Maintenance Surveyor (251595)

Hybrid role – working from home, our office within the Northwest to suit your location and covering patches across Whitehaven and the North Lakes.

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw).

Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 per annum (depending on qualifications e.g. RICS and experience), with great benefits.

Home, a place where you belong

Are you a skilled Maintenance Surveyor ready for your next challenge? Join us at Home Group and become a key part of our dedicated repairs and maintenance team. You’ll play a vital role in helping us raise and maintain the quality standards of our homes, making a real difference for our customers. If you’re looking to work with a supportive team while continuing to develop your own career, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

• Matching pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
• 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a \”me day\”)
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum
• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

Typical day as a Maintenance Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections and managing a patch within the Northeast area, ensuring high‑quality work and that our customers are happy with the outcome.
• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors and suppliers so we deliver a high‑quality, cost‑effective and compliant service.
• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.
• Managing any disrepair cases and helping customers combat damp and mould issues in their homes.
• Accurately measuring materials to enable a ‘right first time’ approach.
• Ensuring void properties are carried out to a high standard, enabling re-let as soon as possible.

You have

• Educated to a minimum HND or Degree in Surveying or Construction related discipline (or equivalent qualification) and strong post qualification experience
• Good working knowledge of the causes of damp and mould, with a PCAQT qualification or willingness to complete after joining us
• Understanding of Construction Design Management (CDM) regulations
• Experienced in diagnosing and scoping property condition including disrepair and dilapidation surveys and remedial works
• Able to understand building pathology with ability to diagnose complex works such as subsidence etc.
• Experienced in managing contractors, ensuring delivery aligns with health and safety laws, including CDM
• Proactive and self‑sufficient, able to manage your patch and deliver work commercially, on time, and within budget

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday; you’ll shape your own diary around work, customers’ and your own commitments.
• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll typically spend some days in our office and others working at home. The rest will be working in our properties across the Northwest.
• You must be able to use technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.
• Hold a full UK driving license and vehicle insured for business use – mileage is covered!
• You’ll need a Basic DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!