Compliance Surveyor

Compliance Surveyor

Location:         Home-based with travel to schemes across the portfolio
Contract:         Permanent | Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary:             £50,000 per annum
 

Help us keep residents safe and services performing at their best

Are you an experienced property professional with a strong understanding of compliance, building safety, and social housing? We're looking for a Compliance Surveyor to help ensure our homes and communities remain safe, compliant, and well maintained while delivering excellent outcomes for residents.

This role plays a key part in managing life safety contracts, supporting investment programmes, and driving service improvements across our property portfolio.

What you'll be doing

• Managing the delivery and performance of life safety, repairs and remedial contracts across a diverse property portfolio.
• Carrying out property inspections and site visits to monitor quality, compliance, health and safety, and contractor performance.
• Supporting planned investment works, complex repairs and insurance-related projects from scoping through to completion.
• Investigating and resolving resident concerns, complaints and property-related incidents while ensuring lessons learned drive continuous improvement.
• Working closely with operational, housing and property teams to ensure services are delivered efficiently, compliantly and with residents' needs at the centre.
• Monitoring contractor KPIs, managing work-in-progress levels and identifying opportunities for service improvements and cost efficiencies.
• Providing technical expertise on building safety, fire safety, regulatory compliance and asset investment activity.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience managing property, compliance, repairs or planned investment activities within social housing.
• Strong knowledge of housing and building regulations, health and safety legislation, fire safety standards and Building Safety Regulations.
• Experience managing contractors, monitoring performance and driving service improvements through KPIs and quality assurance processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build productive relationships with residents, contractors and colleagues.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose issues, assess risks and deliver practical solutions.
• Experience carrying out inspections, managing complex repairs and providing technical property advice.
• HNC/HND in Building, Construction or a related discipline, or equivalent experience (desirable).
• Membership of, or working towards, a professional qualification such as RICS or CIOB (desirable).
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference to residents' safety and wellbeing while working on a varied portfolio of properties. You'll play a key role in maintaining compliance, improving services and helping shape future investment programmes across our homes and communities.

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate their legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Note: This role is know as Surveyor - Life Safety internally.

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, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.