Housing Planned Works Surveyor - Housing Property Services

Are you a skilled surveyor with a passion for improving homes and communities? We’re looking for a dedicated Planned Works Surveyor to join our Housing Property Services Team and help us deliver high-quality, sustainable housing improvements that make a lasting impact.

We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.

We are open to flexible working patterns and can provide a hybrid working environment which utilises the best of both worlds with a mix of office working located off Junction 11 of the M4 and homeworking, according to the needs of the Service.

About the Role:

As a Planned Works Surveyor, you’ll take the lead in managing a portfolio of planned maintenance and capital investment projects across our housing stock. From kitchen and bathroom upgrades to energy efficiency and external works, you’ll oversee every stage—ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget, and to the highest standards.

We are part of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of 5 teams – Building Surveying, Housing New Build, Compliance, Mechanical and Electrical and Quality Assurance. Our role is to deliver a varied programme of repairs, maintenance, refurbishment, and redevelopment to our portfolio of housing stock alongside our Direct Services Organisation.

Our housing stock lies totally within the Borough of Reading and our vision is for everyone to have the opportunity to live in a good quality sustainable home, within in a lively and thriving neighbourhood. We’re working hard to improve disadvantaged areas and enhance people’s lives across the Borough, including a carbon neutral strategy.

The role offers real variety and involvement in a wide range of exciting projects. We manage a circa 6000 stock of residential property, from Victorian terrace houses, through to high rise flats and modern care facilities.

Through partnership working, with both the tenant and contractor, you will arrange and manage works from inception to completion to ensure a seamless approach is delivered.

Our planned works programme has an annual budget of circa £14 million, with additional multi-million pound refurbishment projects. The projects variety includes house extensions for less able tenants, whole house refurbishment, kitchen & bathroom replacement, elemental renewal, external decorations and repairs and zero net carbon installs.

Your work will include feasibility, design, planning, procurement and full contract and project management of a portfolio of projects.

About you:

• A good communicator with a proven background in building maintenance, construction and project management.
• A good understanding of building pathology.
• A working knowledge of category management, procurement legislation and procurement methodology.
• An understanding of Standard forms of contract, how they are applied and used from a client perspective, on construction projects.
• A structured and logical approach to contract fiscal management.
• Degree in Building Surveying, HNC or similar in a building discipline
• Competent use of Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Full driving licence and vehicle.

You’ll be part of a team that relies on each individual to play their part to the best of their ability. As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.

Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success. Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:

 

Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do

Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential.

Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way.

Make a Difference to Reading - maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed.

Our offer:

We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.

 

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:

• Full surveying kit and PPE.
• Payment of professional fees
• Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays - rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service and 33 days after 10 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave.
• A wide range of flexible working opportunities. 
• Modern working environment at the Bennet Road Offices located off Junction 11 of the M4.
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• The use of Kennet Day nursery rated outstanding by Ofsted located at The Civic Offices in Reading town centre.
• Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work.
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand new, greener car for three years.  The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
• Access to an online employee benefits portal with new offers every month.

 

For more information on this position please contact Jo Fuller, Principal Building Surveyor on 0118 937 3811 or joanna.fuller@reading.gov.uk     

 

Closing Date: Tuesday 24^th June 2025

Interview Date: TBC

Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.