Estates Surveyor

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for an Estates Surveyor (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract. This is a hybrid working role (three days per week office based - Norwich, Nottingham, Leicester & York).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

* Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation

* Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now

* Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society

* Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

Job Purpose:

Supporting the Asset Manager (LCW/Surveying) with delivery of the Life Cycle Works (LCW) strategy, you will manage the process of carrying out asset surveys across the estate and specifying the scope of works for LCW programmes.

The role will include supporting the Estate's strategy portfolio appraisal and continued investment or disposal across a wide and varied portfolio, through the application or alignment to ISO 55001 with the aim of optimising the asset portfolio for DWP employees, customers and other stakeholders whilst at the same time maintaining the critical requirement of asset compliance.

You will play a key role in our department's goal of improving the estate to provide a safer, more productive environment for staff and customers, whilst reducing the Department's carbon footprint. You will support the delivery of the Department's asset strategy commitments, working closely with the Service Delivery team and the national Facilities Management (FM) supply chain to optimise asset performance.

As an Estates Surveyor, your main responsibilities will be to:

* Support the Asset Manager (LCW/Surveying) in the delivery of the Asset Management Strategy for the Estates property portfolio.

* Shadow third party surveyors conducting asset collection surveys across the estate to ensure defined protocols for surveying are being followed.

* Review and validate third party asset validation reports and provide technical feedback including submitting asset change requests where applicable.

* Review applications for maintenance / upgrading works providing technical advice where applicable.

* Deliver the end-to-end asset surveying process from planning of asset surveys through to issue of a scope of works for a proposed project and initial cost estimate.

* Maintain the progress of the asset survey programme for the area of responsibility, ensuring the program is delivered in accordance with the schedule.

* Compile the asset survey results in a formal report with CIBSE condition ratings and photographic/documentary evidence and ensures that they are incorporated in the forward maintenance requirements.

Essential:

* Significant experience of asset condition surveying within a large commercial property portfolio.

* Extensive and detailed technical knowledge of building asset types and asset lifecycle management within diverse range of portfolios (Corporate, multi occupied, public facing)

* MRICS

* Has surveyed and planned lifecycle programs on large property portfolios.

* Up to date knowledge of the legislation, best practice and industry standards in relation to providing a safe, sustainable and compliant Estate.

* In depth knowledge of building asset types, their significance on legal compliance and improvements needed to support the Department's commitment to Net Zero Carbon and Greening Government Commitments.

* Understanding of end-to-end commercial construction project delivery process.

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