Senior Building Surveyor (Disrepair)
| Posting date: | 13 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 0EJ |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75793143 |
Summary
Disrepair & DMC Team
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Building Surveyor to join our Repairs & Maintenance service. This is a specialist role where you will lead on the investigation, diagnosis and resolution of disrepair issues across our housing stock ensuring our homes are safe, decent, compliant and fit for human habitation.
If you’re passionate about building pathology, quality standards, problemsolving and improving customer experience, we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for the key requirements:
- A degree/diploma in Building Surveying, Construction or related field or equivalent experience.
- Professional membership such as RICS, MCIOB or similar (or working towards).
- Strong knowledge of building pathology, damp & mould diagnosis, construction methods and maintenance practices.
- Experience of surveying domestic properties ideally within social housing and disrepair contexts.
- Understanding of landlord legal obligations, Awaab’s Law requirements, HHSRS and building safety legislation.
- Excellent communication skills, report-writing ability and confidence using surveying and IT systems.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the borough.
You will be a proactive, solutionfocused professional who can work independently, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes for residents.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Mubarak Khanporia - M.Khanporia@bury.gov.uk
Supporting Documents
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