Surveying and Disrepair Manager

Our Vacancy

As a Surveying and Disrepair Manager you will taking ownership of our response to Awaab's Law, disrepair, damp and mould, and resident safety. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high-performing surveying service that places residents at the heart of everything we do. You will play a critical role in ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, driving service excellence, and influencing strategic decision-making across the organisation. Working collaboratively with internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders, you will help shape and improve services while developing a culture focused on safety, continuous improvement, and exceptional resident outcomes.

What You'll Do

You will lead the delivery of an effective and resident-focused disrepair and damp and mould service, ensuring compliance with Awaab's Law, Housing Ombudsman expectations, and all relevant legislation. Working closely with Repairs, Voids, Assets, Complaints, and Compliance teams, you will oversee complex cases, manage performance, and ensure risks are proactively identified and mitigated. You will be responsible for monitoring budgets, analysing trends, developing robust processes, and presenting performance reports to senior leaders and the Board. As a leader, you will inspire and develop your team, embed a strong health and safety culture, drive service improvements through lessons learned and customer feedback, and ensure residents receive a responsive, safe, and high-quality service at every stage of their journey.

What You'll Need

To be successful in this role, you'll bring significant experience in surveying, disrepair management, property maintenance, or housing repairs within a social housing or property environment. You'll have a strong understanding of relevant legislation, including Awaab's Law, damp and mould obligations, health and safety requirements, and regulatory compliance. As an experienced leader, you'll be confident managing and developing high-performing teams, overseeing budgets, and driving service improvements that deliver excellent outcomes for residents.

You'll possess excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to senior leaders, executive teams, and boards. A proactive and analytical approach is essential, enabling you to identify trends, manage risk, make sound decisions, and implement effective solutions. You'll be passionate about delivering a resident-focused service, committed to continuous improvement, and able to build collaborative relationships across departments and with external partners. A relevant technical qualification, management experience, and a commitment to ongoing professional development will support your success in this key leadership role.

Why join us

When you join Town and Country Housing, you're joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included and empowered.

What we offer

• Salary offering £60,940 per annum
• Contributory pension scheme up to 10% matched contributions
• Life assurance of 4x annual salary (Terms and Conditions apply)
• 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• Two volunteer days per year
• 24/7 digital GP service and counselling helpline (including face-to-face sessions)
• Free annual eye test voucher and contribution towards glasses
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave provision
• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal
• Annual flu vaccinations

This role is a permanent full time position working 35 hours a week. As part of the induction period, we ask all new starters to come in everyday, up to 3 months. Then there is the flexibility to work from home 3 days a week.

Please read before applying:

• You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide a visa sponsorship.
• We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

If this sounds like we are right for you and you'd love to be part of Town & Country Housing, we'd like to hear from you. Please apply now by submitting a CV and a short statement explaining why you're the perfect fit for this role.

If you have any questions about this role, please email the Talent Team on talent@tch.org.uk

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. We will make reasonable adjustments where required throughout the recruitment process. Applicants who require reasonable adjustments to the application process, assessment methods, interview arrangements or other recruitment activities are encouraged to let us know of how we can offer support to enable them to participate fully.

Interviews are taking place on Wednesday 2nd September so early applications are encouraged.