Apprentice Surveying Technician (Level 3)
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO1 2AL |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 3563 |
Summary
We are looking for a Surveying Technician to join our Building Maintenance team to undertake essential tasks relating to compliance and property data collection.
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is considering embarking on a career in building surveying at an entry level, or someone that is contemplating a career change. There may be further opportunities to develop your career with Portsmouth City Council following successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Candidates must be resilient, enthusiastic, good communicators, have excellent attention to detail and be keen to develop their building surveying knowledge and skills.
What can we offer?
We will support you by providing opportunities to undertake additional training, develop your current abilities to enable you to effectively carry out accurate surveys. Our Senior Building Surveyors will provide guidance and advice at all stages while you work alongside our existing apprentice team.
You will have opportunities within the team to gain building surveying experience whilst studying part time towards a level 3 Diploma in Surveying and following a successful end point assessment you will become an associate member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS).
As well as competitive pay you will receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, including flexible working hours, extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme and a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return. We wish to support all our staff's development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement with continual personal development, we will work together to drive your career. For those with families we have childcare benefits as well as discounts with local businesses which can be enjoyed by all.
What is the role?
Based at one of our area housing offices and reporting directly to a Senior Building Surveyor, you will be working as part of a team of apprentices and experienced Building Surveyors. You will assist the team to manage our assets by undertaking a range of property surveys and essential compliance tasks. These will include:
- Energy Performance Certificates
- Vacant property surveys
- Stock condition & data surveys
- General compliance surveys
- Repair quality surveys
You will be supporting our Building Surveyors who carry out a wide range of repairs surveys across our varied asset portfolio of over 17,000 council owned or leasehold properties in Portsmouth and Havant, together with corporate operational, commercial and community assets. You will be supporting the team to maintain and improve our properties while ensuring the right repairs are carried out at the right time.
You will undertake stock condition surveys followed by timely updates to the stock database. Your input will help to ensure that we have up to date, accurate information for our properties to enable us to run precise measures and identify areas needing improvement.
As a Surveying Technician, you will also be responsible for ensuring our homes have compliant and up to date energy performance certificates to ensure that our potential customers have all the information they need to make an informed choice about the energy efficiency of a building before committing to signing a lease agreement.
To learn more about our Surveying Apprentice programme and hear from existing apprentices, we have created a video with the University of Portsmouth that can be watched here.
Who is the person?
Your application needs to demonstrate that you:
- Have an ambition to work in the built environment and have a strong desire to work toward becoming a Building Surveyor.
- Can work independently, are well organised and able to prioritise and manage multiple demands as appropriate.
- Have an interest in buildings and demonstrate some knowledge or experience that can be related the service we provide.
- You will need to have 5 GCSE Grade A-C or higher including Maths and English
- Have excellent communication skills, including:
- The ability to effectively communicate with customers to arrange appointments and site visits
- Speaking to customers and stakeholders face to face while summarising the purpose of your visit.
- Being assertive while dealing professionally with colleagues, service users, third parties and contractors.
6. Be organised, methodical and have an eye for detail when undertaking detailed surveys. Have the ability to prioritise work tasks as appropriate.
7. Able to work as part of a team to ensure a smooth delivery of the service and be flexible in being able to adapt to the needs of the team.
8. Have a positive attitude towards work, be resilient, embrace change and actively work with your colleagues to improve the service offered to customers.
9. Be able to use information to problem solve, risk assess, ensuring customers and colleagues health and safety.
10. You will be inspecting a variety of buildings with different access arrangements and will need to physically fit
11. You will need a full driving licence and use of a car as the role will cover all the PCC housing areas. You will be required to carry equipment to undertake surveys and provide proof of vehicle insurance that covers business usage.
Please also answer the following questions in your application for this apprenticeship:
- Do you have an education, health or care plan provided by the local authority or have you been in the care of the local authority?
- Are you a citizen of the United Kingdom or another country within the European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA)?
- Will you have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or another country within the EU or EEA for at least 3 years from current date?
- Do you depend on a visa or other permission to reside in the United Kingdom?
- If you have answered 'Yes' to the previous question, please describe what type of visa/permission you have. You will need to bring in your passport and visa or evidence of immigration permission when you enrol so that we assess your eligibility to receive Government funding for the Apprenticeship programme.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE to see the full job profile!
Closing date: 4th June 2024
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- A generous pension scheme
- 26 days annual leave per year + bank holidays
- Flexible / hybrid working
- A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
- Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
- Potential to purchase additional annual leave
- Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans
Please click here for all of the benefits of working with us!
Thank you for your interest!
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk