Principal Building Surveyor

Job title: Principal Building Surveyor

Salary: PO2 £ 41,177 - £44,253

Hours: 37

Contract: Permanent

Location: Merrion House/hybrid

As a Principal Building Surveyor you’ll thrive on ensuring best value for our customers through effective contract management and will enjoy contributing to technical problem-solving for the team.

This is great opportunity for you to join a knowledgeable and supportive team, who take immense pride in ensuring high quality and best value outputs are delivered from our two Housing PFI (Private Finance Initiative) Contracts, along with embedding and driving a positive performance management framework across Housing to help shape and inform data and intelligence-led decisions and strategies.

It’s not about the contractual theory of the PFI Contracts and paper-based outcomes, but about living the contracts and outputs in the real world and making an impact on our residents and communities.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

As a Principal Building Surveyor, you will bring to the role:

• Possession of a relevant qualification in building surveying and a minimum of 12-month employment working in construction / PFI maintenance industry, including a sound knowledge of Building Pathology.
• An ability to analyse technical problems, both on site and contractual, and develop effective solutions.
• An ability to develop and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, communicating effectively at all levels.
• An ability to identify service improvements and support a culture that drives up standards and performance - both project-specific and for the wider team.
• Ability to dynamically achieve the delivery of quality outputs, ensuring that the relevant technical, contractual and statutory standards are met and maintained.

As our next Principal Building Surveyor, you’ll provide frontline contract management and technical oversight to Leeds City Council’s two housing PFI projects. You’ll deliver best possible outcomes for our residents by ensuring quality, best value and effective service performance through the contracts. You will ensure residents’ safety by working closely with contractors, colleagues and external agencies to ensure building compliance with relevant statutory obligations.

This role offers the opportunity for someone to use their strong technical and contractual knowledge, in a proactive and self‑motivated team, to drive performance on the ground for our residents and communities. You will have the opportunity to work autonomously, whilst being part of a supportive team, picking up issues and steering them towards satisfactory outcomes using contractual mechanisms, partnership working and your negotiation skills.

The role is integral to our Contracts and Performance team, who play a critical part in ensuring that we meet our statutory compliance for the Housing PFI contracts, and that we conduct ourselves in line with regulation & best practice.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

The PFI Team are seeking a self‑motivated, versatile, delivery focused individual with relevant knowledge,…