Southern Housing
Maintenance Surveyor

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We are looking for a Maintenance Surveyor to join our Direct services team.
The primary function of the Maintenance Surveyor role is to provide a responsive surveying service for Southern Housing.
You will ensure that all Southern Housing-owned and managed properties are maintained to the highest possible standards and that all statutory and regulatory requirements are met. You will ensure staff, residents, leaseholders, managing agencies and property owners are provided with a high standard of service.
The role is based in our Croydon office and you will cover a patch area that will cover all SW and SE postcodes.
For this role you will need a full clean UK driving license.
What you’ll be doing
- To undertake the management of responsive repairs by site inspections, including taking corrective action where necessary and reporting regularly to the Contract Manager on progress.
- To analyse and assess building defects, provide remedial proposals, and prepare specifications for remedial repairs. To ensure specifications are to a high standard of detail and meet current legislative standards.
- To obtain, where necessary, quotations and estimates in accordance with our procurement procedures.
- To maintain communication and consultation to the highest possible standard of customer care with internal and external stakeholders.
- To ensure work is carried out within the budgets and value for money is achieved, through scrutinising quotations, variation requests and proposed specifications.
- Respond to residents' enquiries and communicate updates on cases you are overseeing via telephone, email and text message.
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- Experience as a building surveyor in a maintenance environment, carrying out pre, mid and post inspections.
- Knowledge of relevant and current codes of practice, building regulations, health and safety legislation, standards, and materials.
- Knowledge of construction and design-related defects and how to avoid them.
- Knowledge of procurement law and different forms of contract.
- Knowledge of contract management.
- Ability to use the appropriate IT tools to produce detailed reports, documents, and emails, including using Excel and Word and company software to compile reports for different audiences.


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Closing Date: Tuesday 21st July 2026 at 23:59
Shortlisting: From 22nd July 2026
Interviews: W/c 3rd August 2026
INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).
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