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About Us
With around 150 colleagues we're small enough to be friendly and large enough to give you scope to develop and progress your career. Our Head Office is in Sutton Town Centre with great transport links and we have hubs where colleagues work and engage with residents all over the borough.
At SHP our strength and depth lies primarily in the knowledge, experience and commitment of our colleagues and their ability to deliver really excellent services to residents. As a landlord organisation this means enabling families and households to be successful, sustain their tenancy and lead healthy and rewarding lives. All colleagues can access a bespoke personal development plan with a blend of on and off the job training provided.
About The Role And Our Ideal Candidate
Role: Planned Works Surveyor
Band: 5
Salary: Up to £51,201 per annum with pay award pending, market supplement of £3883 to be paid upon successful completion of probation, and retention payments.
Sutton Housing Partnership, (SHP) is an ALMO providing all housing services and works for Sutton Council’s c7,500 homes, (c6,000 tenanted, c1,500 leasehold).
SHP is in the process of procuring several high profile ECO energy delivery projects that will vastly improve the quality and benefit our residents' homes. The improvements need to be delivered to tight deadlines and to a high quality managing the appointed supply chain on-site and completed to high contract management outturns.
SHP is seeking to recruit a Planned Works Surveyor who will lead on delivery and implementation of planned/capital works.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver specific building capital projects and programmes from inception through to completion, ensuring delivery on time, to budget and to the defined quality.
- Maintain effective client relationships and appropriate communication with all stakeholders to ensure the client brief is adhered to.
- Provide advice throughout all stages of the project from initiation, brief compilation, on the appropriate procurement strategy for individual projects and undertake the procurement of both consultants and contractors.
- Lead, manage and motivate internal and external project teams through supporting, challenging and guiding the external project manager, to ensure project delivery on time, within budget and to the agreed brief.
- Ensure that regular progress and financial reports are provided by the external project manager and/or the project cost consultant and monitor anticipated and actual costs against the agreed budget.
- To adopt the latest construction materials and techniques when appropriate to ensure value for money throughout the construction phase.
- Ensure that completed projects are handed over with the necessary documentation in place and undertake post project and post occupancy reviews are carried out to ensure continuous improvement in future projects.
Experience
About You
- To be successful it is essential that you have experience of managing multiple projects, contractors and both internal and external stakeholders.
- You should have a demonstrable experience of dealing with residential-type properties, social housing or housing associations, and be able to demonstrate your experience in these areas.
- You will also need to have experience of managing internal teams and project managers.
- Working knowledge of JCT / NEC form of contracts will also be a big plus point.
- Understanding of construction stages such as RIBA stage 1 etc is also something the organisation will look for in the successful candidate.
- Experience of large scale complex construction projects.
- Experience of acting as a client project manager for construction projects.
Qualifications
- RICS, CIOB, Degree or HNC or relevant qualification and/or demonstrable experience in delivering capital investment projects
- Ideally experience of working in partnership or for Social Housing Provider, with experience of managing works
- Experience of managing JCT / NEC works contracts.
- Demonstrable experience in developing capital works’ specifications to be used in the procurement of works.
- Good understanding and experience of leasehold charging consultation, (Section 20) requirements for qualifying works.
- Experience of managing building consultants engaged to work on capital investment projects.
- A good understanding of traditional and modern construction practices, best practice, and associated Regulations.
- Technical expertise to understand complex issues in construction, engineering and maintenance in the delivery of projects
- Comprehensive knowledge of materials, trades, construction methods and legal/statutory requirements.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and managing contractors
Our offer
Colleagues at SHP take pride in delivering on our priorities and find working with us hugely rewarding. In turn, we strive to reward our colleagues fairly and roles are regularly reviewed to ensure pay reflects the responsibilities of the individual in line with our seven pay bands.
Colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly, a good work-life balance is key for us and our key benefits are:
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme – a career average scheme where employees contribute between 5.5% and 12% but more importantly we as the employer make a generous contribution.
- Annual leave of either 26 or 33 days per year plus paid time off on bank holidays.
- Simply Health Cash Plan which allows colleagues to claim cashback on dental, optical, consultations and scans.
- Confidential support from a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
Application process
Before applying please refer to the job profile and ensure you meet the essential criteria. You will then need to complete the online application form, adding a supporting statement addressing how you meet the criteria outlined in the job profile.
Sutton Housing Partnership is an accredited Disability Confident Employer. We are signed up to the government’s Disability Confident scheme and have been recognised as a Disability Confident Employer since 2017. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role and ensure that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
