Building Surveyor

About the role

Working as a Building Surveyor for North Northamptonshire Council not one day will be the same, you will be working as part of the operations team, delivering services across the area for non domestic properties and assets such as Care centers, Libraries, Offices and Land.

You will be making recommendations and budget forecasts so that decisions about the maintenance and development of the property/s can be made as well as providing technical advice, recommendations and budgetary forecasts to the Principal Surveyor.

You will be responsible for contractors ensuring they carry out works in a safe and secure manner.

What will you be doing?

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

Collation and analysis of information for the Asset Management Plan Register

Provide professional technical support within Assets and Environment and the wider council services.

Monitor and ensure Contractors’ standard of work comply with instructions and specifications provided

In response to client requests, appraise, analyse and identify potential problems, propose technical solutions, prepare specifications together with supporting budget forecasts to enable bids for funding to be submitted and works carried out

Liaise with and direct external consultants to carry out detailed technical briefings, reviewing scheme proposals to ensure that the Council Policies and objectives are met

Provide a high level of technical / professional advice to all Property Asset Management colleagues and service users

Act as designated authority for approving appropriate expenditure

About you

You will require the following skills and experience:

- Degree in Building construction or equivalent is desirable but not essential

- Higher level nationally recognised Health & Safety qualification – eg NEBOSH/IOSH

- GCSE education or equivalent

- Experience with the FM/ Construction Industry

- Knowledge of CDM regulations

- Considerable experience and understanding of Buildings and their construction as well as wider asset management, eg flood defences etc.

- Project Management experience

- Experience of conducting stock conditional surveys

- Health and safety legislation and building regulations

- Evidence of supervising contracts for building works, preparing specifications, administering payments, variations, defects and completion certificates

- Well developed communication and negotiation skills

- Able to proactively manage own workload and work as part of a team

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)