Senior Property Surveyor WCC620598

Job Details:

All applications must apply via Goodman Masson. Please apply HERE. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.

Salary range: £54,700 - £57,700 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: 18 April 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM 

Housing and Commercial Partnerships in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations. 

Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it’s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today – a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet. 

Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.

The Role:

As a Senior Property Surveyor you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. You’ll join our high profile Housing Services, and oversee and ensure building and maintenance projects are delivered on time and to budget. This work will include repairs, planned works and programmes, the refurbishment of empty properties, dealing with dampness and condensation issues, leak detection, planned preventative maintenance and the pre and post inspection of works. In addition, we’ll expect you to oversee the property surveying functions required to manage a portfolio of approximately 5,000 homes, including the structure and fabric of the buildings, internal and communal areas and estate grounds.

Working with our Area Repairs Managers to implement and develop the systems necessary to regularly inspect the external and communal parts of properties, you’ll identify any requirements for repairs and maintenance, and ensure works are carried out according to urgency and priority. Committed to collaborating with your colleagues as you ensure a joint approach to improving quality and customer satisfaction for our residents, you’ll also highlight key investment needs and considerations to the Property Planning and Assets Team so that works can be planned appropriately.

You’ll have a wide range of additional responsibilities – these include ensuring that our health and safety management policy is fully implemented and documented, providing strategic leadership within the Housing portfolio, and contributing proactively to the leadership of the council as you work collaboratively to deliver our objectives and priorities. In addition, we’ll also expect you to manage the development and training of a number of Property Surveyors and Trainee Property Surveyors.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With substantial experience of leading and developing an organisational function or service in a multi-disciplined organisation of similar size to ours, and with excellent procurement and supplier relationship management skills, you’ll be capable of managing repair and maintenance services in residential buildings. Ready to make complex decisions relating to the specification of remedial works, we’ll also expect you to possess the skills to coordinate the response to major service failures and emergencies.

It's important that you have a successful track record of handling large budgets, business planning, quality and performance management, and well developed knowledge of the issues facing local government and the public sector. An inspirational and motivating leader with the passion and drive to take the services we provide to the next level, you should also have the ability to manage political and cultural issues and deliver innovative project, programme and change management programmes.

When it comes to qualifications you should have a degree in Building Surveying or a similar subject relating to the built environment, and evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal development, such as membership of a relevant professional organisation or a clear plan for achieving this. We’ll also look for superb financial and budget management skills, the ability to deliver economies through creative and efficient working practices, and a flexible approach to your tasks as you work in partnership with other departments and organisations to coordinate services.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority ( GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' ( formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. 

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

All applications must apply via Goodman Masson. Please apply HERE. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.