Building Surveyor (two positions available)

What we need you to do

You will lead a small team of two Technical Officers and support the Repair and Voids Manager with the delivery of day-to-day repairs, voids, and minor works projects that aim to protect or improve our tenants’ homes. You will work closely with tenants and Red Kite senior managers and staff to deliver excellent, cost-effective building maintenance solutions and improvement services. You will be available and eager to help customers in a range of different situations, using your technical building pathology skill and experience to ensure that our tenants are safe, and their homes are well maintained.

As well as responsive repair and void works you will provide assistance and expertise in the delivery of legal disrepair works, environmental health orders and complex cases. You will use your negotiating skills to effectively resolve issues directly with tenants and where this is not possible you will work swiftly and diligently through relevant formal processes engaging support when required.

·     On-call rota

Being involved in a rota system (usually one week in every nine) to provide ad hoc evening and weekend phone support for contractors and customers when emergency situations arise. This may also require occasional on-site attendance of emergency work, e.g. major fires, floods etc. acting on our behalf. You may also be required to act as support to other on-call staff where higher-level management input is needed or where escalation is required.

How to apply

Have a read through the job description and if you’re excited about this opportunity take a look at our guidance notes and complete the application form and email it to Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk.

If you’d like to have a conversation about the role, please contact Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk to arrange a chat.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a significant number of suitable applications so please submit your application early.

35-hour week pilot

Since June 2024 we have been piloting a change to our normal full-time, 37-hour 5-day week. Over 12 months we are trialling a shorter 35-hour week (for the same pay as before) where staff work a full day Monday to Thursday, and finish the working week at 1pm every Friday. It’s just a pilot at this stage while we evaluate its impact on our staff, our tenants, and the service we provide, but if successful we will consider a permanent move to this way of working in 2025.