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Surveyor - Technical

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Posting date: 21 June 2024
Salary: £19.60 per hour
Additional salary information: per hour PAYE
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 July 2024
Location: HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 2NF
Company: Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: Kirklees 0009 02EC / 1

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What's involved with this role:

Temporary Surveyor - Technical

Reference no: Kirklees 0009 02EC / 1

Pay Rate: £19.60 per hour PAYE

37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 2 months

City: HUDDERSFIELD

Enhanced DBS disclosure required

Hybrid working

As a proactive Surveyor the post holder will support the Team Leader and deliver the operational duties of their service/business area. The post holder will work with colleagues across the organisation in line with the core behaviours and values and contribute to the delivery of the organisation’s purpose, vision and objectives, ensuring positive outcomes for the business and customers. A key component of the role will be to directly contribute to delivering high performance and continuous improvement within the service/business area in line with the Service Plans, Medium Term Financial Plan, the joint Delivery Plan and the Council’s key objectives to deliver a customer focused service.

The post holder will provide technical expertise on all aspects of building maintenance and surveying, including preparation of detailed specifications, planning and monitoring work, and contribute towards the Asset Management Plan. There are a number of areas within the Surveying function, including Mechanical, Electrical, Specialist Services, Quantity Surveying, and Estimating. Surveyors will work within a particular function, and will be required to deputise for their line manager and other Surveyors across the Directorate as required.

Key responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise on all aspects of building maintenance and surveying, acting as Supervising Officer, and through technical supervision achieve high quality standards in building works and associated services. Prepare detailed specifications for allocated projects, undertaking the preparatory, planning and monitoring work necessary to meet the individual requirements of each project or scheme.
Carry out stock condition surveys, and contribute to the development of the Asset Management Plan and Investment Strategy.
Carry out Professional Estimating and Quantity Surveying functions for a range of contractual agreements from initial receipt of the contract documentation to the submission and agreement of the final accounts.
Provide specialist expertise on domestic gas heating and / or electrical services and project management of rewiring programmes, other electrical schemes, gas servicing contracts, maintenance contracts, planned maintenance and commercial heating.
Provide specialist advice in relation to damp, timber infestations and structural defects and manage specialist works that are carried out in relation to this.
Deliver all operational aspects of your relevant service/business area.
Work collaboratively with your Team Leader and other Surveyors to monitor, analyse and deliver improvements across all relevant performance indicator areas in order to increase customer satisfaction.
Prepare professional and clearly written communications to colleagues, partners and customers.
Participate in team service reviews and service planning as required and ensure any arising individual actions are implemented.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

GCSE (or equivalent) Grade 4 (C) or above in English & Maths or equivalent.
ONC or Equivalent (Level 3 Btec in Construction and the Build Environment) or relevant City and Guilds in the Construction and the Built environment or working towards such qualification
HNC or Equivalent (Level 4 in the Construction and Built Environment) or equivalent experience in the Building Surveying environment or working towards qualification

Experience:

Experience of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
Previous experience of data input and maintenance of databases and/or Contact Management Systems
Demonstrate a proven track record of delivering targets and goals within operational plans

Skills & Abilities:

Good team working skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team coupled with the ability to work on one’s own to achieve results
Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to interact effectively and sensitively, in person, via the telephone and in writing with a range of stakeholders, internal and external
Able to work flexibly and be responsive to change in order to improve performance
Literacy and numeracy to a standard required to maintain accurate records and write high quality communications
A good level of computer literacy to interrogate various software packages

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Job Ref: Kirklees 0009 02EC / 1


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.

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