Property Surveyor

Property Surveyor
Location: Remote working covering west of London and north west London (including Chelsea, Slough, Watford and Harrow)
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Contracted Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £47,000 per annum, plus £5,800 car allowance

As a Property Services Surveyor, you’ll play a key role in keeping our homes safe, secure and well-maintained so residents can continue living independently. Managing a portfolio of properties, you’ll balance inspections, compliance and repairs delivery to ensure our homes meet the highest standards.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver high-quality responsive repairs across a defined region, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
• Carry out site visits, pre- and post-inspections, and quality checks to ensure works meet required standards.
• Manage contractors to deliver repairs, void works, adaptations, and minor planned works effectively.
• Oversee complex repairs, variations, and orders, ensuring cost control and timely delivery.
• Monitor and manage WIP levels, ensuring performance targets and service levels are achieved.
• Identify and resolve damp, mould and condensation (DMC) issues in line with regulatory requirements.
• Support resolution of complaints, ensuring learning drives service improvement.
• Provide technical support for incidents including fires and Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs).
• Ensure compliance with Building Safety Regulations, fire safety standards and HHSRS.
• Work collaboratively with residents, contractors and housing colleagues to maintain safe, high-quality homes.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong knowledge of building pathology within a housing environment.
• Experience in responsive repairs, voids, planned works and contractor management.
• Good understanding of health and safety legislation, Building Safety Regulations and fire safety.
• Ability to manage WIP, performance data and service delivery effectively.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills across complex repair issues.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to engage residents and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple sites.
• HNC/HND equivalent experience in building/construction (essential).
• Degree or Working towards MRICS or MCIOB (desirable).
• Able to complete a standard DBS check

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.