Head of Surveying and Technical Services (26777)

Circa £90,000 - £98,000 per annum, plus car allowance of £5055 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan. National role with regular travel and hybrid working. Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw). We can't offer a CoS for this role.

Home, a place where you belong. This is a unique opportunity for you to shape a brand-new Surveying and Technical Services function at Home Group, putting professional surveying expertise at the centre of how we protect customers, manage risk and invest in our homes. You'll lead our national 'Surveying House', a new specialist function you'll establish and develop to provide expert diagnostics, building pathology for complex repairs, root cause analysis, and robust technical specifications for Repairs & Maintenance works across our properties. You'll mobilise the service, lead a national team of internal surveyors, manage external partners, and set clear technical standards that drive consistency, quality and confidence.

What you’ll do

Lead our national technical and surveying service that triage, diagnose and fix complex repairs right first time. You'll provide expert technical leadership enabling timely and high-quality decisions.
Use technical insight to strengthen our understanding of building safety, asset condition, guide investments and repair decisions, ensuring everything we do is evidence-based.
Reduce repeat failures by improving diagnosis, root-cause analysis and resolving long-standing repairs.
Set national surveying standards, clear guidance and specifications that are used across all regions. You'll build expert technical capability across our teams for the long term.
Lead, motivate and supercharge strong operational performance across an internal national Surveying team as well as procure and manage external Surveying partners.

Qualifications

Extensive experience of managing complex technical surveys, defect diagnostics, and repair specifications. Managed internal teams, technical consultants and surveying partners.
A building surveying, construction, engineering or building pathology qualification (MRICS, MCIOB, FRICS or equivalent). Strong understanding of regulations, compliance, construction standards, and legislation.
Expert knowledge of building diagnostics, defects, complex repairs, building safety, damp and mould. Confident using BIM and Digital Surveying tools.
Excellent leadership skills, able to engage, influence and transform to drive service excellence across a national technical team.

Practical details

37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Core office hours are 9:00 am to 5:30 pm with flexibility built in.
Hybrid role based in one of our national offices (Newcastle, Durham, Leeds, Maryport, Welwyn Garden City, Reading or London), working from home and across our national portfolio. Travel to the North-East (where our Head Office is based) is also required.
A full current driving licence, as you'll work and travel on a national basis and will be provided with a car allowance as part of your remuneration package.
Basic DBS check (which we pay for).

What's in it for you?

34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a \"me day\"). The option to buy 5 more each year.
Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more.
Matching pension contribution (up to 7%) and life insurance of 3x basic salary.
800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more.
Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support.

Diversity and inclusion

We do our best work when we're ourselves. That's why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work! We welcome applications from everyone and are especially keen to hear from people who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. This includes people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people who identify as female, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people or those with a long-term health condition. As a disability confident employer, we are committed to making reasonable adjustments and supporting candidates throughout the recruitment process.

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Home Group Limited