Senior Building Surveyor

Job Introduction

Senior Building Surveyor

The Royal Borough of Greenwich Repairs and Investment Section is looking for a strong and highly motivated Senior Building Surveyor with excellent knowledge and passion for strategic asset management and stock condition survey. 

In this exciting new role, you will:

• Lead and manage a high-performing Building Surveying team, driving effective delivery, performance, and professional development.
• Lead the development and delivery of a Stock Condition Survey (SCS) programme, ensuring full asset coverage, high-quality data, and alignment with strategic asset management objectives.
• Oversee the planning and execution of surveys, managing internal teams and/or consultants, setting productivity targets, and ensuring robust quality assurance.
• Ensure stock condition data is accurate, validated, and integrated within asset systems to inform responsive repairs, compliance, cyclical maintenance, and long-term investment planning.
• Develop and maintain a five-year housing investment plan, using stock condition data, lifecycle modelling, and strategic priorities including energy efficiency and decarbonisation.
• Work collaboratively across Housing and Sustainability teams to deliver value for money and support wider strategic objectives.
• Lead on procurement and management of planned works and professional services contracts in line with public sector requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, survey methods, and use of technology.

What you’ll need

• Ability to lead on carrying out stock condition survey, updating the system with the condition of key components and validating stock condition survey data.
• Ability to work closely with the Housing Energy and Sustainability Manager and R&I teams to ensure accurate investment decisions, effective retrofitting programme, value for money and strong data management
• Liaise with colleagues in R&I section, other Housing and Council departments to ensure effective planning and delivery of capital works Programmes 
• Educated to degree level, professional qualification (RICS or CIOB) or equivalent relevant experience 
• Line management of Building Surveying team through excellent performance and team development.
• Ability to build effective, positive relationships with stakeholders (internal and external) including Members and be an active member of different teams.

For an informal discussion please contact Adnan Qureshi at adnan.qureshi@royalgreenwich.gov.uk 

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated. 

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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