Property Surveyor (Central) - Luton / Stevenage

Job Title: Property Surveyor

Location: Covering a patch of Properties in the Luton/ Stevenage area

Salary:  £37,713 + Car Allowance (£5,800)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5

About the role:

You will be responsible for managing delivery of property investment, service & inspection, and repairs services to a group of properties, approx. 30-40 locations depending on geographic spread. You will ensure timely delivery of services, ensuring all properties are kept in a good condition within property strategy targets whilst ensuring that contractual obligations are met.

You will manage project performance to ensure robust financial forecasting, processing of valuations and contract instructions whilst identifying cost saving through collaboration with contractor and quantity surveying team.

The role will require strong collaboration with housing colleagues to ensure works run smoothly and meets the needs of the business and residents

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Knowledge and experience of delivery of investment and repairs activities to a housing portfolio.
• Extensive knowledge of building pathology and remediation actions
• Experience of project management of investment, compliance services and/or reactive maintenance work.
• The ability to build high levels of trust, openness, honesty, collaboration, and support across teams.
• An excellent planner and forward thinker, with strong stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to identify cost savings and improvements to service quality; working collaboratively within contract parameters to deliver the improvements and savings
• To have a minimum 3 years’ experience of managing property activities in social housing
• Ability to interpret operational data to inform service delivery planning within the property portfolio.

About Us

Anchor began more than 50 years ago and today is England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life.

It provides retirement housing to rent and to buy, retirement villages and residential care homes, including specialist dementia care. In total, Anchor serves more than 65,000 residents in 54,000 homes across almost 1,700 locations. Its residential care services employ the majority of the 9,000-strong workforce, providing services to residents at 114 care homes.

Anchor operates in more than 85% of local councils in England.

We know that quality services start with quality people. We work hard to be recognised as a leading employer and are committed to retaining and attracting the best in our industry.

At Anchor we believe in values. We are Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest. We believe our people should be proud of the work they do making a difference to society and our customers.

As an Anchor colleague working from home, you’ll have access to a wide range of great communications and networking technologies. You’ll find that working from home is no barrier to being part of a close knit team and our friendly collaborative culture.

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to have an LGBT+ resident group, and also BAME, LGBT+ and Disabled colleague networks. These work closely with the organisation to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We recruit, train and promote without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or other protected status. One of our values is ‘respect’, therefore we do not accept harassment or discrimination from any colleague, resident or third party.

As one of England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, we’re able to negotiate great deals and benefits for our people. Here are just a few of the things you’ll get when you work with Anchor.

• Exclusive discounts on high-street shopping

• 20% off mobile phone contracts

• Cashback on dental and medical expenses

• Discounted Private Medical rates

Click here to find out more about our full benefits and wellbeing package (the link is https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk  )

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