Royal Borough of Greenwich
Building Maintenance Surveyor
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Building Maintenance Surveyor
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking an experienced, highly motivated and technically competent Building Maintenance Surveyor to join its Repairs and Investment Section.
This is an exciting opportunity for a professional surveyor with a strong background in housing repairs, maintenance and asset management to play a key role in maintaining and improving the Council's housing stock. The successful candidate will combine hands-on technical surveying with project management and strategic asset planning, ensuring that homes are safe, well maintained, energy efficient and deliver value for money for residents.
In This Role, You Will Undertake The Following
Technical surveying and repairs
- Carry out detailed building surveys, inspections and condition assessments of the Council's housing stock.
- Diagnose building defects and determine appropriate repair and maintenance solutions.
- Prepare clear specifications, schedules of work and technical reports.
- Provide professional technical advice to colleagues, residents, contractors and other stakeholders.
- Ensure completed works meet the required specification, quality standards and resident expectations.
Contract and project management
- Manage responsive repair, maintenance and improvement projects from inception through to completion.
- Administer building contracts, including the assessment of works, valuations, variations and final accounts where appropriate.
- Monitor contractor performance, quality and compliance.
- Inspect completed works and ensure defects are identified and rectified.
- Support the resolution of complex technical issues and complaints.
Compliance and quality
- Ensure works comply with Building Regulations, health and safety legislation and relevant statutory requirements.
- Identify and appropriately escalate risks relating to asbestos, structural defects, fire safety, damp and mould and other building safety matters.
- Maintain accurate inspection, project and contract records.
- Identify opportunities to reduce repeat repairs and improve long-term asset performance.
- Contribute to the planning and delivery of strategic asset management programmes.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Leadership and partnership working
- Build effective working relationships with internal teams, contractors, consultants and external partners.
- Work collaboratively across repairs, investment, housing management and other Council services.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to colleagues where appropriate.
- Represent the service at meetings with stakeholders and Members when required.
What you'll need
The Successful Candidate Will Have
- A qualification in Building Surveying or a related construction discipline.
- Significant experience in housing repairs, maintenance and building surveying.
- Experience of carrying out building surveys, inspections and preparing technical reports and specifications.
- Experience of contract administration and project management.
- A sound understanding of building pathology and repair techniques.
- Knowledge of Building Regulations, health and safety legislation and relevant housing standards.
- Experience of working with housing asset data and contributing to planned investment programmes.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and report-writing skills.
- The ability to manage a varied workload and work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
- The ability to build positive and productive relationships with colleagues, residents, contractors, consultants and Members.
- Membership of, or a willingness to work towards membership of, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or another relevant professional body.
- A full UK driving licence, where required for the role.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for a surveyor who combines strong technical knowledge with a practical, resident-focused approach. You will be confident in diagnosing complex building defects, challenging poor workmanship, managing contractors and projects, and using data to inform future investment decisions.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
For an informal discussion please contact ade.onileyan@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
Diversity Statement
Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.
Advert Close
All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.
Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).
How Applications are Scored
Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements address each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.
Salary
Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator' to help you calculate a pro rata salary.
Our Staff Values
Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location