Job Description

The Building Surveying Manager post is an important and valued post within the Maintenance and Contracts service area and the wider Housing Directorate dedicated to continuous improvement, efficient services and improving housing standards for our customers.

Day to day

You will manage a team of building surveying staff and deliver an effective and efficient building surveying service for a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties. You will be required to lead from the front, inspire and motivate and successfully deliver key tasks and services within time, cost, and quality performance targets.

As such, it is a great opportunity to make your mark at Ipswich and develop your career at the Council. Innovation and aspiration are encouraged. The varied workload will enable you to refine your existing skills as well as develop new ones. You will be required to develop good working relationships with both internal and external colleagues and stakeholders and when required, liaise with elected members.

Specifically, this post will be responsible for a range of professional building surveying activities (including but not exhaustive) disrepair claims, tenant alteration requests, damp and mould cases, housing and structural defects, right to buy applications, buy back and insurance surveys, inspecting dangerous structures, resolving boundary disputes, undertaking energy performance certificates, disabled adaptations and design & specification of building works generally.

About you

You will need to have a building related degree and preferably a professional membership e.g., MRICS, MCIOB and 5 years qualitative experience. You will also be required to have detailed knowledge of Building Surveying and Building Regulations, as well as experience of managing staff, budgets, business planning, and change management.

The Maintenance and Contracts service invests significantly repairing, maintaining, and improving a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties and 15 sheltered schemes to the Decent Homes Standard and our local “Ipswich Standard”. The Council takes a holistic approach to stock management and has one seamless service that is now responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of that stock; from initial design to completing works on site on a right first-time basis using our own directly employed trade teams and external contractors.

For more information about this role please contact Duncan Carragher via email at duncan.carragher@ipswich.gov.uk  or call 01473 432425

This post is offered on a permanent basis.

Hours of work are 37 per week, Monday to Friday.

As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking, public transport discounts, free swimming, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.

Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role:

Job Description and Person Specification

The selection process will be an interview. Interviews will be held on 28^th March 2023.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.