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Date Added: Fri 15/08/2025

Disrepair Surveyor

London, UK
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Company: ACKERMAN PIERCE

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: £380 - £400 per day

About the role
  • Management of Disrepair cases from inception to completion, creating detailed reports which are usable in court if required.
  • Undertake expert witness reports / scott schedules as required.
  • Managing a high volume of work across a designated geographical patch.
  • Take full control of the surveying duties, ensuring the completion of works.
  • Autonomy on decisions which are required to ensure quality work.
  • Manage tenant engagement and ensure high-calibre customer service along with the Disrepair Case Officer.
  • Receives support from Solicitors within the Legal Team with the strategy on how to approach certain cases if court orders are involved.
  • Deliver a high-quality customer-focused repairs and maintenance service to act as essential technical support to the Repairs and Operations
  • Pre and post-condition inspections of works, with a focus on quality and cost, including but not limited to checks on asbestos management, CDM regulations and void specification brief(s).
  • Undertake and monitor proactively the client’s responsibilities for all contracts within the posts remit.
  • Provide specialist and professional reports, write specifications, manage disrepair cases, and insurance cases, and undertake estate inspections and quality assurance inspections.
  • Overseer the delegated Revenue and Capital budgets for the Repair and Maintenance and one-off projects. To support the Repairs & Operations Service and across Property Management to reduce compensation costs associated with legal disrepair
Essential:
  • MRICS, MCIOB or Expert Witness qualified.
  • Extensive experience in delivering complex/disrepair service for social housing.
  • Understanding of disrepair legislation, Including a sound knowledge of:
  • The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
  • Defective Premises Act 1972
  • Detailed Knowledge and understanding of pre and post-inspection processes, building pathology and repairs techniques.
  • Detailed Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities in relation to construction and Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations.
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