Senior Surveyor
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £45,091 to £49,282 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Morecambe, Lancashire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Lancaster City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 116_25 |
Summary
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Surveyor within the Repairs and Maintenance Service (RMS) based at the White Lund Depot, Morecambe.This exciting role will support our improvement journey to provide our tenants, leaseholders and stakeholders with a 1st class repairs and maintenance service.
We are seeking a suitably qualified and competent person who thrives on working in a challenging, varied and performance driven culture. You must enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues within RMS, Council Housing Neighbourhood Service, Choice Based Lettings team and our Property, Asset & Compliance team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for arranging and undertaking a wide range of technical inspections to Council Housing stock (tenanted/void dwellings, acquired properties, garages, estate/land & commercial properties and mutual exchanges) within prescribed timescales. The role will also include being the lead for managing our response to dealing with reports of damp/mould (or any other hazard under the HHSRS) ensuring our response to reports of damp and mould are within prescribed timescales. You will also be responsible for ensuring accurate performance monitoring data is kept up to date on the damp/mould tracker.
Managing a small team of Surveyors’, you will have a varied role that will range from inspecting repair requests from our customers through to undertaking and validating existing stock condition surveys. You will also be involved in responding to disrepair claims, complaints, and responding to customer requests to undertake improvements. More complex issues (eg structural) will require you to appoint and manage external consultants and specialists.
You will have overall responsibility for undertaking a range of functions relating to the repair and maintenance of our stock and will develop strong working relationships with our Customer Services team and Property, Asset and Compliance team. It is essential you have excellent communication and time management skills. If you enjoy undertaking a range of challenging tasks this is the role for you.
Working collaboratively with other RMS managers ensuring that you and your team are available to support the inspection process relating to voids, supported moves, mutual exchanges and stock acquisitions. You will also be working with our tenant groups/representatives and being used to scrutiny to improve overall service delivery.
In addition to the above you will support the transition of the current service delivery model as it evolves from being less responsive to a more planned approach to undertaking repair works.
To undertake this role successfully it is essential that you have customer 1st skills and the drive to deliver a high performing repairs and maintenance service.
The successful candidate must be able to evidence the requirements detailed in the person specification.
Your normal working hours will be 37 per week, and flexitime working applies to this role. You may also be required to support our response to emergency repair requests by being “on-call” for the Out of Hours emergency repair service.
About You
You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.
Our Benefits
A Local Government Pension Scheme (the Council makes a 15.5% contribution). Discounted gym membership and discount on days out, activities and retail.
Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:
Generous annual leave allowance
Local Government Pension Scheme
A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.
Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.
We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.
At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.
Interview date: 17th December 2025
An opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Surveyor within the Repairs and Maintenance Service (RMS) based at the White Lund Depot, Morecambe.This exciting role will support our improvement journey to provide our tenants, leaseholders and stakeholders with a 1st class repairs and maintenance service.
We are seeking a suitably qualified and competent person who thrives on working in a challenging, varied and performance driven culture. You must enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues within RMS, Council Housing Neighbourhood Service, Choice Based Lettings team and our Property, Asset & Compliance team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for arranging and undertaking a wide range of technical inspections to Council Housing stock (tenanted/void dwellings, acquired properties, garages, estate/land & commercial properties and mutual exchanges) within prescribed timescales. The role will also include being the lead for managing our response to dealing with reports of damp/mould (or any other hazard under the HHSRS) ensuring our response to reports of damp and mould are within prescribed timescales. You will also be responsible for ensuring accurate performance monitoring data is kept up to date on the damp/mould tracker.
Managing a small team of Surveyors’, you will have a varied role that will range from inspecting repair requests from our customers through to undertaking and validating existing stock condition surveys. You will also be involved in responding to disrepair claims, complaints, and responding to customer requests to undertake improvements. More complex issues (eg structural) will require you to appoint and manage external consultants and specialists.
You will have overall responsibility for undertaking a range of functions relating to the repair and maintenance of our stock and will develop strong working relationships with our Customer Services team and Property, Asset and Compliance team. It is essential you have excellent communication and time management skills. If you enjoy undertaking a range of challenging tasks this is the role for you.
Working collaboratively with other RMS managers ensuring that you and your team are available to support the inspection process relating to voids, supported moves, mutual exchanges and stock acquisitions. You will also be working with our tenant groups/representatives and being used to scrutiny to improve overall service delivery.
In addition to the above you will support the transition of the current service delivery model as it evolves from being less responsive to a more planned approach to undertaking repair works.
To undertake this role successfully it is essential that you have customer 1st skills and the drive to deliver a high performing repairs and maintenance service.
The successful candidate must be able to evidence the requirements detailed in the person specification.
Your normal working hours will be 37 per week, and flexitime working applies to this role. You may also be required to support our response to emergency repair requests by being “on-call” for the Out of Hours emergency repair service.
About You
You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.
Our Benefits
A Local Government Pension Scheme (the Council makes a 15.5% contribution). Discounted gym membership and discount on days out, activities and retail.
Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:
Generous annual leave allowance
Local Government Pension Scheme
A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.
Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.
We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.
At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.
Interview date: 17th December 2025
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