Full-time, 6-month Fixed-Term opportunity (37.5 hours)
Clapham Park, London: £58,664 - £61,751
Are you a skilled people manager but want to maintain your surveying skills?
We're on the lookout for an experienced Senior Property Surveyor to play a key role in our dynamic Property Directorate. This is your opportunity to take ownership of a small team of surveyors and provide advice and support on challenging repairs, structural issues, and major defects—delivering real results for our residents while balancing quality, compliance, and value for money.
In this pivotal role, you'll lead the investigation and resolution of non-routine repairs, damp and mould issues, and ad hoc planned replacements. You'll bring a proactive and resident-focused mindset, working collaboratively across departments to ensure every home is safe, secure, and well-maintained.
What You'll Be Doing
Be the go-to expert for your team within the Property Directorate and for assisting your team in diagnosing and resolving complex building faults.
Independently manage a varied team and a small caseload and the team duties include damp and mould, insurance works, and more significant or specialist repairs.
Lead on the accurate diagnosis of building issues, applying your strong knowledge of damp and mould, HHSRS, and building pathology to identify and categorise Category 1 & 2 hazards.
Ensure systems are updated by the team, H&S is complied with all necessary training is requested and updated on our systems
Provide technical guidance and post-inspection support to colleagues, ensuring quality and consistency across all property works.
Support the delivery of ad hoc planned works and contribute to continual service improvement through innovation and professional insight.
Review and advise on home improvement requests with a focus on safeguarding our housing stock.
Play an active role in cross-team initiatives that drive business improvement and enhance the resident experience.What You'll Bring
A proven track record in managing a team and resolving complex property repairs and maintenance issues.
A deep understanding of housing construction, maintenance diagnostics, and the NHF Schedule of Rates.
Strong grasp of damp and mould diagnostics and the ability to apply the HHSRS framework effectively.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a talent for translating technical issues into clear, resident-friendly solutions.
A genuine curiosity, commitment, and drive to fix things right, the first time—within budget and to the highest standard.
Experience working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical teams.To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers, this role requires a Basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.
Metropolitan Thames Valley provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.
We also offer a range of care and support services. Our specialist areas include older people, mental health and transitional services which provide intensive support to marginalised or vulnerable people.
We deliver training programmes, events and activities for our residents, designed to boost employment opportunities and foster stronger communities.
A member of the National Housing Federation the G15 ? which represents London?s largest housing associations ? we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.
In October 2018 like minded housing associations Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing formally completed a partnership to form Metropolitan Thames Valley. We came together because we want to improve the services we provide and do more in our communities. We?ll do this by listening to our customers and working alongside them.
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Salary description
£58664.00 - £61751.00 per year