Jobs, fresher vacancy - Repairs & Maintenance Surveyor • Oxford

Company: GreenSquareAccord

Oxford

Repairs & Maintenance Surveyor Oxford Salary - £41,800(+ £750 Car Allowance) per annum - depending on skills and experience. Contract type - Permanent Working hours - Full Time About the role You will provide technical solutions and programmes of work to address responsive repairs, void property repairs and projects across a defined geographical area. It involves understanding the business requirements and resident`s requests and ensuring works are properly specified and delivered. You will be completing property repairs and maintenance forms a key part of our contract with residents, the post holder must provide the right level of property maintenance to protect a buildings asset value and ensure repairs are undertaken right first time. A high level of resident satisfaction has been built up in the business and the role includes maintaining and improving on it. You will be part of a key asset management role, crosscutting with colleagues in Planned Maintenance and Housing, with responsibility for the work managed hitting KPI targets. There are specific overall requirements to meet the regulatory and health and safety requirements around the service, including the Decent Homes Standard and most recently Housing health and safety rating system. About you You will have a professional qualification or equivalent experience in a maintenance, construction field. You will have a fundamental knowledge of the construction industry in general, and field of Quantity Surveying/Project Management/ Building Surveying in particular. You must have knowledge and application of Decent Homes standard and Housing health and safety rating. You must have experience of procurement best practice and of procuring contracts and managing external contractors and suppliers. You will have experience of delivering servicing works programmes, tendering, and using schedule of rates. You will have BTEC, HND/HNC or equivalent ability or vocabulary, verbal reasoning, and numerical skills to the equivalent ability level. You must have innovative, creative, and able to demonstrate drive and determination. You will have experience of procurement best practice and of procuring contracts and managing external contractors and suppliers. You must have the ability to work in a cross-cutting role collaborating with other services and teams. You will be diplomatic and persuasive, ability to resolve conflict and influence people. About us GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England. We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most. We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system. Our purpose We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently. Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that`s providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life. Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen. Working for GreenSquareAccord gives you the chance to bring your skills and expertise and make a real difference. It doesn`t matter which role you are considering applying for, your work will help thousands of people build a better life. The GSA Way We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way. A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is. Our five core commitments are: We believe our customer is everything We are one team We are supportive and caring We are business-minded for social purpose We are curious and ambitious. You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack. Benefits In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). GreenSquareAccord also offer a non-contractual performance-related bonus scheme. Further details will be made available upon joining, along with supporting documentation which can be found on the GreenSquareAccord intranet site. All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy. GreenSquareAccord are a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the `essential eligibility criteria` for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview. If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.