Building Surveyor

MMP Consultancy currently has an opportunity for an interim Head of M&E to join a housing association in North London.

Title: Interim Head of M&E
Client: Housing Association
Rate: £500 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 4-6 Months Interim
Reports into: Director of Compliance and Planned Works
Direct Reports: 4 (Electrical, Water, Planned and Gas)

Role Purpose:

* Lead the M&E Team to ensure statutory compliance in the areas of Gas Servicing, Lift Maintenance, Asbestos, Electrical Testing, Air conditioning and extraction, drainage plant security & door entry and rooftop / high level communal space safety.
* Lead on damp and water ingress management across the portfolio including works and tenant management
* Play a strategic role in the Customer Services Directorate, proactively contributing to business planning, managing other areas of service to cover staff absence, service improvement, and achieving of high level of customer satisfaction with services

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

* The management of a range of Planned Mechanical and Electrical Works Contacts undertaking works such as , Gas Servicing, Lift Replacements, Air conditioning, ventilation upgrades , door entry systems, communal wiring and lighting upgrades, asbestos removal, fire safety equipment testing.
* Lead manager responsible for statutory compliance through managing maintenance and inspection contracts for Mechanical & Electrical services including Lift Maintenance, Asbestos, Communal and domestic Electrical Services, Door Entry
* Liaise with Customer Services to ensure all planned M&E works are conducted across the relevant premises, and health and safety risk assessments are carried out.
* Oversee activity around dampness and major water ingress activity, ensuring that processes are maintained, reporting is accurate and high risk activity has appropriate mitigation in place and is effectively managed.
* Attend Resident and Committee meetings and present reports on operational areas of responsibility. Ensure the reporting mechanisms on key performance indicators are carried out in accordance with agreed requirements.
* Ensure contractors are providing value for money by maintaining effective cost evaluation and quality assurance processes within the team.
* Contribute to development of the service including new policies and procedures and systems to support continuous improvement with written reports and presentations to senior managers and members providing advice and recommendations.
* Ensuring auditable contract administration with effective systems developed and maintained for the timely and accurate payment of invoices and valuations subject to proper authorisation.
* Take responsibility for compliance with all, health and safety requirements and best practice to minimise risks to residents, contractors and staff.
* Management of a staff group including recruitment, training, performance management and absence management.
* Ensure effective record keeping and monitoring systems are in place and maintained to a high standard to facilitate responses to members, complaint handling, freedom of information

MMP Consultancy is seeking a Class 3/4 Building Control Team Manage on behalf of a North London based Local Authority, to manage and deliver a high-quality Building Control service. The successful candidate will serve as the principal technical adviser and be responsible for ensuring compliance with the Building Acts and Building Regulations.

This is initially a 3-month contract subject to extension. The successful candidate will be expected in the office 2 days per week, with site visits as and when required. The rate of pay is £550pd inside of IR35.

Key Responsibilities:
* Manage a team of up to 15 Building Control professionals, overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
* Serve as the Council's expert on Building Control matters, ensuring adherence to Building Acts and Regulations.
* Make critical decisions as a District Surveyor within an approved scheme of delegation.
* Manage budgets, monitor income and expenditure, and ensure financial efficiency.
* Develop and implement innovative procedures to improve service delivery, cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
* Recruit, train, and mentor staff, encouraging professional development within the team.
* Lead the development and expansion of partnership schemes, identifying business opportunities to generate income.
* Lead on enforcement actions, including dangerous structures, and represent the Council in court cases and public hearings.

Key Skills and Qualifications:
* In Building Control, with corporate membership of ABE, RICS (Building Control), or equivalent.
* Class 3 and 4 registration.
* Proven experience managing a team, monitoring workloads, and achieving performance targets.
* Strong knowledge of Building Regulations, Fire Safety, CDM, structural safety, and relevant legislation.
* Experience managing budgets, reviewing income, and forward planning.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to negotiate effectively and represent the Council in legal and technical matters.
* Ability to handle complaints and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.

MMP Consultancy currently has an opportunity for a Fully Remote Property Surveyor to join a housing association. My client is looking for a Property Surveyor to be based in ideally North Of London and is able to drive to North London & East Anglia with ease.

This position is paying £55,000 Benefits (inc £5,800 Car Allowance)

Job Purpose:

The role is responsible for leading and managing the delivery of property investment, service & inspection, and repairs services to parts of the property portfolio, approx. 20-40 locations. Working with housing/care operations you will ensure timely delivery of services, and ensure all properties are kept in a good condition within property strategy targets. You will ensure compliance with commercial and contract management arrangements, ensuring the contractual obligations are met. Manage project performance and working with the quantity surveying team ensure robust financial forecasting, processing of valuations and contract instructions. To be responsible for identifying cost saving through collaboration with contractor and quantity surveying team. The role will require strong interaction with housing/care operations teams to ensure works run smoothly and meets the needs of the business.

Key Accountabilities:

* This is an important role within Property which ensures maintenance of good quality homes through individual ownership of each location.
* The role has latitude within budgetary restrictions and portfolio strategy requirements to prioritise activity and spend to achieve these targets.
* As well as day to day activity, this role will have to respond quickly and effectively to ad hoc requests from the business, which may be complex, urgent, and business critical.
* The role will require effective engagement with colleagues in Housing and Care operations.
* Nature of impact:
* The role will work with others to effectively deliver repairs, investment and service & inspection activities to individual locations.
* Collaboratively with quantity surveying team, contractors and colleagues.

Key Tasks:

* Delivery of all property activities to a portfolio of properties
* Undertake regular inspections such as Stock Condition surveys, MOT surveys and Asbestos reinspections
* Working within the management arrangements ensure repairs and planned works are necessary and delivered in the most cost-effective manner.
* Analyse performance of properties to recommend future investment, and repair planning for you portfolio.

Title: Fully Remote Property Surveyor
Rate: £55,000 Benefits (rate inclusive of Car Allowance)
Location: North London / East Anglia
Contract: Permanent

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Senior Technical Officer (DFG) to join a local authority in the South West.

This will be a interim position on a 6-9 Month contract paying £49 P/H Umbrella.

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the role is to manage clients' applications for Disabled Facilities Grants, loans and repair grants, including designing and organising schemes ensuring the property meets the needs of individuals and the Decent Homes Standard.

Role Responsibilities:

• Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council's equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety, and wellbeing of self and other; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

• Arrange and undertake site visits, meeting with applicants, occupational therapists (OT's), architects and contractors to determine eligibility for financial assistance.

• Ensure project feasibility and scope of work, undertake measured surveys and to give technical advice. To liaise with other officers of the service and outside agencies.

• Produce practical specifications, detailed drawings and schedules of work for extensions and other adaptations which contractors can work from to carry out the construction work. Ensuring compliance with Building Regulations, Planning Permission, listed building consent and good practice.

• Obtain quotations and estimates from contractors and to scrutinise them and undertake a fair costings exercise for the proposed work.

• Carry out interim and final inspections and to appraise unforeseen works where technical problems have been encountered and to negotiate with applicants and contractors in matters of dispute, and to make decisions for approved grants and loans. Checking of final accounts, invoices and defects liability.

Title: Senior Technical Officer (DFG)

Salary: £49 P/H Umbrella

Location: Southwest

MMP Consultancy currently has an opportunity for a Building Surveyor to join a local authority based in Bedfordshire

This will be a permanent position paying £44,680 to £47,903 per annum Plus Benefits

The Role:

• In this role as a Housing Surveyor you will work as part of our busy Repairs, Voids and Maintenance team, creating the best place to live for our residents by overseeing the Maintenance of my clients 5000 Council owned homes.

Job purpose:

• This role is to inspect, and project manage the rectification of properties. You will carry out inspections of homes to prioritise repairs (major/minor), adaptation and improvement work.
• As part of this Housing Surveyor role, you will be responsible for; The health, safety, and condition of council owned dwellings by identification through inspection of void properties, and analysis of defects leading to project managing cost effective works to time, quality and budget.
• The planning, preparation, procurement, delivery and management of revenue and capital works programmes to time, budget and quality from inception to completion.
• Management, administration, procurement and supervision of contractors delivering inspection, risk assessment, renovation, servicing and maintenance to council owned property.
• Taking part as required in emergency planning. Carrying out surveys and inspections of council-owned property to diagnose repair defects and order effective remedial works.
• Prepare strategies, reports, and feasibility studies into specific related subjects. Occasional desktop diagnosis of customer repair enquiries offering effective remedial works to reduce the number of site inspections of council owned property completed by colleagues.
• Working with my clients Contractors, placing orders for remedial works to void properties, managing the works & monitoring from start to completion, revenue and capital budget monitoring, attending contractor meetings and occasionally supporting other teams with surveying tasks.
• The role will be to ensure that on site delivery standards are high; achieving value for money and customer satisfaction and will involve extensive liaison with external contractors including budget management, design, agreement of specifications, procurement, contract administration, financial monitoring, Stock Condition / HHSRS surveys, building pathology and interaction with tenants and leaseholders.
• You will be HND or degree qualified, or, alternatively have relevant experience in an appropriate profession.
• You will have some experience of manging capital and revenue works ideally in a social housing environment, with an understanding of housing, procurement, project management and budget management.
• The ideal person would be able to manage their own workloads, often to defined timescales, on a range of projects.

Title: Building Surveyor

Salary: £44,680 to £47,903 per annum Plus Benefits

Location: Bedfordshire

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Capital Programme Contract Manager to join a local authority based in Somerset.

This will be an Interim position 6-9 months paying £433.25 P/Day Umbrella.

The Role:

• Deliver Housing Capital Programme contracts ensuring the objectives, targets and priorities of the Council are achieved whilst remaining compliant within statutory regulations.
• Provide high quality Housing Capital Programme service expertise to assist in the delivery of the Council's aims, objectives and operational planning.

Job Purpose:

• Deliver Capital Programme contacts across the following areas of responsibility: 1. Provide effective contract management which delivers efficient Capital Programmes that are customer focused, deliver value for money and maintains properties to an appropriate standard.
• Manage external contractors to deliver excellent performance at all times for all workstreams allocated to them.
• Actively engage with residents in relation to projects and assist in continually improving resident satisfaction with service delivery.
• Assist in procurement activities for Capital Programmes to be allocated to them.
• Ensure accurate records are kept for all Capital Programmes allocated to them and that appropriate reporting systems are in place.
• Respond to emergencies, on occasion during unsocial hours, and participate in a rota to provide response cover.
• Contribute to operational risk management activities, within the remit of the post.
• Actively participate in both corporate and post specific learning and development activities and to continually develop skills and abilities within the role.
• Assist in setting clear standards and performance targets to all Capital Programmes allocated to them, and monitor and report on progress in meeting them.
• Assist in providing property related guidance and awareness training to service delivery teams.
• Ensure that subject service requests and complaints in relation to all workstreams allocated to them are promptly investigated and the finding(s) acted on in a timely and proportionate manner.
• Assist in identifying improvements to processes and systems to ensure the effective and efficient provision of the service in order to meet customer need. 13.Use information technology and digital transformation to deliver an effective, efficient, responsive and e-enabled service.
• Assist on internal and external audits for all workstreams allocated to them.
• Attend meetings with the Council and other organisations, including public groups as required, sometimes outside normal office hours.
• Be responsible for the effective management of budgets for all workstreams allocated to them, including monitoring and delivery of required works within budget.
• Deputise for the Housing Capital Programme Manager as and when required.
• Implement appropriate quality systems, including post inspections of work undertaken, to ensure standards are met for all workstreams allocated to them.
• To take responsibility for your own health and safety, and that of anybody else who may be affected by your acts or omissions.
• Assist in the integration of new services, functions, and staff into the team in line with corporate strategies and any future service change.
• Any other reasonable duties of a similar nature.

Title: Capital Programme Contract Manager

Salary: £433.25 P/Day Umbrella

Location: Somerset