Service Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Provide a comprehensive surveying and technical advisory service for all the businesses property based activities, to include:
a) Inspection of and reporting on the condition of all property.
b) Preparing estimates.
c) Preparing plans, schedules, specifications, estimates and tender documents.
d) Obtaining tenders, issuing of works orders, supervision of works and settlement of accounts.
e) Preparing committee reports and attending committee meetings as required from time to time by the post's line manager or head of service.
f) Preparing Schedules of Condition for lease documents.
g) Preparing Schedules of Dilapidation and negotiating settlements of dilapidation claims with tenants and landlords.
h) Update or carry out new Fire Insurance Valuations.
i) Carry out fire and other relevant property related risk assessments and identify, cost and report on appropriate remedial measures to reduce risks to acceptable levels.
j) To liaise with all cost centre managers to ensure that regular building and building services monitoring tasks are being performed and to identify and resolve any building and services maintenance issues arising from.
2. Ensure that the business satisfies health and safety requirements and other statutory requirements relating to its property including Health & Safety at Work Act and subsequent regulations, Construction Design and Management Regulations, Planning and Building Regulations, Party Wall Act.
3. Formulate and administer property maintenance and construction contracts, where delegated, including all aspects of pre contract, contract and post contract management.
4. To be accountable for the programme of work within the contract area ensuring that time scales and relevant budgets are adhered to and targets are achieved and KPIs measured.
5. Systematically review the condition of the businesses property portfolio with the Asset Manager and anticipate long-term maintenance requirements through the Project Appraisal process, including producing information and budget estimates for inclusion within the Medium Term Financial Strategy.
6. Develop maintenance and improvement programmes in order to minimise the requirement for response based repairs services.
7. Establish and maintain effective control of spending within the repair/planned works budget and provide regular reports.
8. Ensure specifications and documents are prepared in accordance with the businesses Standing Orders, contract documents and contractual requirements.
9. Develop and review new methods of building maintenance and working practices for the service, in discussion with internal/external contractors and City Homes.
10. Ensure that tenants, leaseholders and all other stakeholders are consulted in the most appropriate way, both individually and through resident associations.
11. Ensure that all aspects of leasehold property management are complied with and that all costs for leasehold property work are fully recovered.
12. Contribute to the management of the businesses Asset Database and ensure that all relevant property data is registered and updated utilising IT equipment and systems.

Resourcing Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.