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Job Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Clerk of Works, to join our Property Services Surveying Team. Our team manages a significant portfolio of residential property, and our vision is for everyone to have the opportunity to live in a good quality sustainable home within in a lively and thriving neighbourhood. Were working hard to improve disadvantaged areas and enhance peoples lives across the Borough, including a carbon neutral strategy.

Job Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Clerk of Works, to join our Property Services Surveying Team. Our team manages a significant portfolio of residential property, and our vision is for everyone to have the opportunity to live in a good quality sustainable home within in a lively and thriving neighbourhood. Were working hard to improve disadvantaged areas and enhance peoples lives across the Borough, including a carbon neutral strategy.

This role will provide a comprehensive professional building repairs inspection service in respect of refurbishment projects and planned maintenance of properties, within the housing portfolio including Sheltered Accommodation, Temporary Accommodation, and new build properties.

We are open to flexible working patterns and can provide a hybrid working environment which utilises the best of both worlds with a mix of office working located off Junction 11 of the M4 and homeworking according to the needs of the Service.

About The Role

This job itself offers real variety and involvement in a wide range of exciting projects. Your day-to-day work could vary from inspecting a Victorian Terrace property suffering from structural movement to completing handover surveys of void dwellings; to assisting a project surveyor with inspecting their project to replace windows and cladding to a non-traditional block of flats or carrying out a site inspection for a new build scheme, built to Passivhaus standards. You may be working with our in-house trades teams to solve a mysterious roof leak or resolve a condensation issue

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Inspection, written specification and ordering of works in line with the specification.
• Supervision of small works with internal and external contractors
• Ensure that works are carried out to the right specification with the right materials and fit for purpose
• Supervise work on site, issuing instructions that could have financial consequences and stopping works if necessary
• Writing general specifications for contracted work
• Responsible for collating any issues and concerns in relation to work on site and provision of written reports for the Project Managers /Supervising officers
  
  

• Good understanding of building pathology
• Working knowledge of all forms construction, including M&E services.
• Practical understanding of standard forms of contract, how they are to be applied during a construction project.
• Working knowledge of contract management and administration.
• ONC/OND or higher in building construction
  
  

• Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays - rising to 33 days after 10 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Life Assurance - three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
• On-site day nursery (Kennet Day nursery) rated outstanding by Ofsted
• Season Ticket Loan - a loan to help with the cost of your rail or bus journey, to and from work
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand new, greener car for three years. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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