Job Description

The Building Surveyor post is an important and highly valued role 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.

If you want to join a Council that has the drive and determination to succeed through innovation, then we can provide you with the opportunities to progress your career and be part of a committed team helping to make a real difference to the people of Ipswich.

You will join a team of building surveyors and deliver an effective and efficient building surveying service for a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties. You will be required to 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

Ideally you will have a degree or professional qualification or be working towards this and three years’ experience of technical and organisational knowledge in building/construction related field and preferably a professional membership e.g., MRICS, MCIOB. You will also be required to have detailed knowledge of Building Surveying and Building Regulations.

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.

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.

For more information about this role please contact Peter Stephens via email at peter.stephens@ipswich.gov.uk  or call 07785694400

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 occupational testing followed by interview etc. Interviews will be held early July 2023.

The assessment interview process will be carried out in person.

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.