Residential Real Estate Surveyor

at  Longhurst Group

Are you from a property inspection, trades or surveying background and looking for an exciting new role within an organisation committed to improving lives? Are you data driven, and keen to ensure that our customers have the quality homes they deserve? If so, our Residential Real Estate Surveyor role could be the perfect job for you…
Longhurst Group is a leading housing Group across the Midlands & East of England, committed to enhancing communities and improving the lives of both our colleagues and customers. With a mission to provide quality, safe, affordable housing that build great foundations for our customers, our Asset & Property Services team are critical to driving the reinvestment programme for our housing stock, enabling improvements to be made to the homes of our customers.

As a Residential Real Estate Surveyor at Longhurst Group, you will be undertaking surveys on our housing stock to complete stock condition reports, and subsequently reporting on performance, quality and safety. Always ensuring that our customers have confidence in the process of identifying risk and investment opportunities in their homes, you will also provide the business with the required data to efficiently. Further key responsibilities are listed below:

• Accurately & efficiently collect data which enables Longhurst Group to meet our regulatory and legislative asset requirements. This includes condition, performance, safety and energy data.
• Identify and report building defects (including regulatory and legislative concerns). Liaising with internal and external teams to ensure issues are resolved.
• Completing Decent Homes / HHSRS (Housing Health & Safety Rating System) as part of your surveys.
• Continuously improve the quality of our data.
• Schedule and plan your diary to ensure best use of time and optimise productivity.
• Deliver an effective, customer focused service reflecting the highest service standards, including ensuring all enquiries are dealt with in a professional and timely way.

In order to be successful in application for our Residential Real Estate Surveyor role, you will have a knowledge of building regulations and practices, with a previous background inspecting homes and being able to assess the lifespan and quality, and/or building control. Having a good core of IT skills is also a must.
Our Residential Real Estate Surveyor role operates in a hybrid capacity, contracted to 36.25 hours per week. To us, this means spending time with our customers across our West region, predominantly in Birmingham and Walsall, with some travel across other parts of the West Midlands and East Midlands as required with some time working from home (subject to business needs - we are open to discussion around how this is built into working weeks). A large portion of our Asset & Property Services team also work in a hybrid nature, meeting in the Peterborough office on a fortnightly basis for collaboration.

VETTING REQUIREMENTS

The important things - We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to live and work in the UK. All shortlisted candidates will need to verify eligibility to work in the UK at interview. If you are the successful candidate, original proof must then be provided before your first day.
Naturally working with our customers, we need to complete pre-employment checks before you join us. This role is conditional upon receipt of two satisfactory references (one from your current employer). We also need you to tell us what you have been up to over the past 5 years as a minimum in terms of employment history. This could include carer duties, travel, seeking work, education, employment, training, or volunteering.

• Accurately & efficiently collect data which enables Longhurst Group to meet our regulatory and legislative asset requirements. This includes condition, performance, safety and energy data.
• Identify and report building defects (including regulatory and legislative concerns). Liaising with internal and external teams to ensure issues are resolved.
• Completing Decent Homes / HHSRS (Housing Health & Safety Rating System) as part of your surveys.
• Continuously improve the quality of our data.
• Schedule and plan your diary to ensure best use of time and optimise productivity.
• Deliver an effective, customer focused service reflecting the highest service standards, including ensuring all enquiries are dealt with in a professional and timely way