building surveyor

Here at Somerset County Council we are looking for a Building Surveyor to join our corporate property team based in Taunton. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, we are offering a competitive salary of £34,984 - £39,336 per annum, plus benefits.

About the Building Surveyor role:

This is a new role in our expanding team and will offer a high level of autonomy in a flexible environment, delivering large scale projects and programmes across a diverse property portfolio.

The County Council is currently undertaking an extensive programme of schools and corporate asset capital maintenance programmes, decarbonisation schemes and refurbishment projects. You’ll play a key role in scoping, commissioning and delivering these programmes.

Here's what you can expect to be doing as our Building Surveyor:

• Managing a 3 year, £1.2m programme of condition and decarbonisation works across our Residential and Activity Centre assets. This is a programme of work across two listed estates to improve the overall condition and customer appeal of these assets, as well as undertaking a scheme of decarbonisation works to remove or reduce the use of fossil fuels as part of SCC’s Climate Emergency objective.
• Managing a £400k programme of condition works across our Heritage Trust assets. Working with the trust, you will manage a scheme of high priority maintenance works across the four historical sites, including the scheduled ancient monument of Taunton Castle.
• Taking a lead role as the client across a diverse property portfolio, undertaking a wide range of maintenance and improvement programmes, carrying out condition surveys and undertaking works inspections.

What are we looking for in our Building Surveyor?

• Experience of managing programmes of maintenance or construction works on operational premises (ideally as a Building Surveyor or property professional).
• The ability to work effectively in a challenging environment, successfully managing your own diverse workload whilst also being a key member of a wider team delivering an effective property management function.
• Excellent (or at least really, really good) knowledge in construction and building regulations, defect analysis and ability to carry out condition surveys using dedicated asset management software.
• Access to your own vehicle with business use purposes as you’ll need to carry out site visits and surveys across the country of Somerset.

Why choose Somerset County Council?

• A Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Discounted lease car via salary sacrifice scheme and options for discounts on petrol or diesel.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and so forth.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work, childcare vouchers, additional annual leave, computers, mobile phones and health screening.
• Generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance and support offering a variety of employee wellbeing services to support a healthy work/life balance and lifestyle.
• Optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.

Additional information:

The salary for the role is £34,984 to £39,336 per annum (this includes a £4,000 recruitment allowance per annum for up to 3 years).

Closing date: Wednesday24th August 2022

If you feel you have the skills and experience to join us as our Building Surveyor,then please click ‘apply’ now, we’d love to hear from you!

We recommend applying as soon as possible. Depending on the level of response, we anticipate conducting interviews and potentially making an offer, ahead of the closing date.