L&Q
Senior Building Surveyor
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Senior Building Surveyor
Contract Type: Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week.
Salary: From £60,000 – 63,000 per annum dependant on experience
Grade: 10
Reporting Office: London, Stratford
Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing Date: 4th September 2026 at 11pm
Interview Dates: 15th September in person at our office in Stratford, London
Please click here for the role profile - Senior Building Surveyor Role Profile.docx
Benefits include:
- Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
- 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
- Westfield Health Cash Plan
- Non-contributory life assurance
- Up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
- Lifestyle benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme
- And many more…
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview process with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months.
Join our Team at L&Q:
We're looking for an experienced and customer-focused Senior Surveyor to lead a team of Surveyors delivering high-quality repairs and maintenance services across our homes.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced building surveying professional who enjoys leading people, solving complex technical issues, and driving excellent customer outcomes. You'll play a key role in ensuring repairs are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards, while supporting the performance and development of your team.
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Reporting to the Surveying Manager, you'll lead a team of Surveyors, providing technical expertise across a broad range of repairs, insurance works, complaints, and building defects. Working closely with colleagues across Repairs, Housing, and Commercial teams, you'll help ensure our residents receive a responsive, high-quality service that delivers real value.
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!
Your impact in the role:
- Lead and develop a team of Surveyors to deliver a high-quality surveying service.
- Oversee complex surveying cases, inspections, and provide technical advice.
- Monitor performance, quality, and compliance to achieve service targets.
- Build strong relationships with residents, contractors, and internal teams to deliver excellent customer outcomes.
- Help drive continuous improvement, value for money, and excellent technical support.
What you'll bring:
- Experience leading Surveying teams within housing repairs or property maintenance.
- Strong technical knowledge of building surveying, repairs, and maintenance.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills.
- Ability to write excellent surveying reports and review reports compiled by the team.
- A relevant surveying qualification or willingness to study to degree level in a relevant subject.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk
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About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high-quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness, and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East, and North West of England.
People are at the heart of our business, and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q – click here to read more.
At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.
Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.
Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!
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