Asbestos Building Surveyor x 2 - Property Services

What's involved with this role: Interim Asbestos Building Surveyor x 2 - Property Services Job Ref: Portsmouth Pay Rate: £28.08 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 monthsCity: Portsmouth, HampshireBasic DBS disclosure required for this roleHybrid working We are looking for a Building Surveyors (Asbestos) to assist our repairs and maintenance teams with good building surveying knowledge and relevant surveying experience of managing Asbestos.An experienced Asbestos Surveyor is required with extensive experience combined with specialist qualifications related to asbestos (S301, P402).Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out asbestos surveys across our varied 15,000 housing stock, together with our asset portfolio of corporate operational, commercial and community assets including schools.
• Supporting us to maintain and improve our properties, ensure the right repair at the right time and help us provide suitable homes when needed.
• Surveying assets, updating stock data and condition, evaluating and diagnosing what work is required, assessing the best options to carry out the work and issuing response repairs.
• Assisting with the management of asbestos on behalf of Portsmouth City Council in accordance with its asbestos management policy. This will include ad hoc sampling and inspection of assets, and a rolling programme of management surveys & re-inspections, including sampling in accordance with the approved code of practice L127 ensuring that all site asbestos registers are correct and updated at regular intervals and the asbestos register is maintained.
• Arrange managed asbestos removal work using specialist contractors.

Qualification:

1. HNC level qualification in an appropriate building or construction related subject or alternatively demonstrate sufficient relevant experience of surveying properties in a repairs and maintenance environment.
2. A full driving licence and provide a car for work, as you will be visiting sites across Portsmouth and will need to travel effectively between them. You may also be required to occasionally attend evening meetings as appropriate.

Skills & Experience:

1. Be able to conduct management asbestos surveys, including sampling and record the presence of asbestos.
2. An awareness of building related legislation as appropriate and be able to apply as necessary with the ability to advise others.
3. Knowledge and experience of construction related health & safety legislation knowledge generally and be able to apply specifically the working at height regulations, CDM Regulations and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
4. Planning skills and demonstrate the ability to be organised and methodical when undertaking surveys, preparing and managing projects to ensure effective time management.
5. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.SPlease note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please