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As a Fire & Building Safety Surveyor, you will conduct detailed surveys of properties managed by the Council, contributing to a comprehensive database and providing expert advice on fire safety and compliance. Your role ensures that fire risk assessments are completed accurately and on time, maintaining the highest standards for all properties and meeting all statutory and regulatory requirements. You will deliver exceptional service to staff, residents, leaseholders, managing agencies, and property owners.

Special requirements for this post

• Provide expert advice on the condition and value of council properties, recommending actions for fire and building safety.
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
• Investigate building defects, focusing on fire and building safety, and recommend solutions.Conduct feasibility studies, provide estimates, drawings, and specifications for required work.
• Prepare reports and offer technical advice and training on fire and building safety.
• Support the service’s activities and growth through various surveying tasks.
• Stay updated on fire and building safety requirements.
• Conduct property visits and desk-based surveying activities independently and remotely.
• Manage fire risk assessment tasks, ensuring timely completion and regular reporting.
• Liaise with Fire Authorities and ensure compliance with Notices of Deficiencies.
• Ensure specifications meet current legislative standards.
• Obtain quotations and estimates following procurement procedures.
• Maintain high standards of communication and customer care with all stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on performance to ensure work is within budget and value for money is achieved.
• Identify and suggest improvements to procedures, processes, and quality control.
• Provide advice on construction and building matters, including desktop reviews of new development drawings and specifications.
• Monitor contractor and consultant performance, providing reports to the Fire and Building Safety Lead.
• Conduct post-inspection quality checks and ensure satisfactory completion of works.
• Perform H&S spot checks and ensure contractor compliance with Health & Safety risk assessments and method statements.
• Manage complaints, taking ownership and providing written responses as required.
• Keep accurate records of site progress, variations, snagging, and health and safety.
• Update systems on job progress and record customer contacts, complaints, actions, and learning points on CRM.
• Regularly inspect sites to ensure compliance with quality controls, contract conditions, legislation, and defect-free standards.

About you

You are dynamic and experienced with a passion for Fire Safety. You have a proactive and a creative problem-solving mindset and capable of addressing challenges.

You possess proven ability to inspire and motivate the team to achieve ambitious goals, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.

You are adept at overseeing day-to-day high standard of service delivery, ensuring efficiency, compliance, safety and engagement of residents.

You are skilled in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including residents, elected members, and partners.

About us

Barking & Dagenham is changing. It Starts Here.

Think you know Barking and Dagenham? Think again. While this small corner of east London might have a reputation for needing development, scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find active communities and a place that consistently punches above its weight. The borough is changing – and changing for the better. And It Starts Here.

Yes, the borough has its challenges. But it’s on the cusp of something exciting. With one of the youngest populations in the country, ambitions are high and rightly so. 98% of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding and every year more of our talented teenagers get into Russell Group Universities and hotly sought after apprenticeship schemes.

We have award winning parks, centuries old manor houses full of relics and artifacts you can go and see, and the ruins of one of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and wealthiest religious sites. We’re even bringing beavers and white storks to the borough to help rewild the local landscape and boost biodiversity.

Over the past few years, we’ve been working hard to improve how we deliver services and support our community. From tackling inequality to making sure our services are the best they can be, we’re focused on what matters most to local people.

We’re creating the conditions for people to thrive - so everyone can enjoy a good quality of life, feel proud to call this place home, and be part of something bigger.

#ItStartsHere - with our streets, our schools, our neighbourhoods. And with your application to join our determined team who are passionate about doing what’s best for the future of Barking and Dagenham.

As an Investors in People Gold Award employer, we’re serious about supporting our staff. From flexible working, professional training and career development to wellbeing initiatives, we want our people to feel valued and supported in everything they do.

Our values, known as

• DRIVE, shape how we work: Deliver our best every day – and do what we promise
• Respond in a prompt, positive way to our community’s needs
• Inspire others with our attitudes and actions
• Value people for who they are and what they can do
• Engage with others to improve our resilience and flexibility We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.