Site Surveyor - Responsive Maintenance

Within the group, Wates Living Space is one of the UK's leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year.

Our leading position within the maintenance sector has enabled the business to realise ambitious strategic growth. In 2011 Wates Living Space acquired Linbrook Services, followed by the Purchase Group in 2014. This has further expanded our responsive maintenance capability into the Midlands, Wales, and North West, offering our clients a truly integrated national service for all of their maintenance requirements.

As a result of our success, we have an opportunity for a Site Surveyor to join a team of experienced surveyors working on repairs, maintenance and voids across Birmingham for Birmingham City Council.

Key accountabilities and deliverables include monthly contract cost reporting, supply chain tendering and management, direct labour management, and supporting the development and implementation of all pre and post contract strategies.

You will also have strong commercial skills to maximise value recovery, cost control and cash management along with the ability to use / understand financial reports and final accounts

To be successful in the role you will be able to demonstrate the ability to form and develop relationships with clients and supply chain.

A bit about us:

Wates is one of the largest and most successful family-owned private construction, development and property services companies in the UK. Our vision is to become the most trusted partner in the built environment with an ambition to become a GBP2bn turnover business.

As a progressive and rewarding business we offer our people the opportunity to grow their careers whilst working together to deliver the promises we make to our customers.

Our company values of integrity, intelligence, performance, teamwork and respect for people, communities and the environment run through our business at every level and are at the heart of everything we do.

The wellbeing and safety of our people is our priority, therefore creating a zero harm culture and encouraging a healthy work-life balance is important to us. Wates Group are a responsible and inclusive employer and are proud to have been recognized for this through accolades including C2E (Committed to Equality) and Investors in People (Gold).

We value each employee as an individual and offer flexible and competitive packages to support that.

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Salary: . Date posted: 02/06/2017