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Capital Small Works Surveyor
Location: London, Hybrid
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £45,259 to £50,000
1st Interview (Face to Face) - w/c 10th Nov, 2025
About the Role
At Norwood, we’re proud to maintain and improve a diverse property portfolio that supports people with neurodevelopmental disabilities, children and families, and our dedicated staff across multiple sites.
As Capital Small Works Surveyor, you’ll play a vital role in delivering a wide range of small capital and refurbishment projects, ensuring our environments are safe, high-quality, and fit for purpose. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, hands-on professional ready to develop their expertise within a supportive and purpose-driven charity.
About our Property and Facilities
Norwood’s Property and Facilities team plays a central role in maintaining and improving the environments where our services take place, from residential homes and supported living services to, children & family centres and a head office based across London and Berkshire.
About Norwood
Founded in 1795, Norwood is the oldest Jewish charity in the UK. We support and empower neurodiverse children and their families and people with neurodevelopmental disabilities to live their best lives.
At Norwood, you’ll make a real difference every day. You’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive team, guided by values of kindness, respect, empowerment and belonging. We invest in your growth, care about your wellbeing, and give you the pride of knowing your work changes lives.
Your Day-to-Day
- Deliver and oversee improvement, refurbishment and maintenance projects typically up to £100k in value.
- Develop clear project scopes, obtain competitive quotes, and ensure compliance with procurement policy.
- Instruct, manage and monitor contractors to deliver projects to agreed specifications, budgets and timescales.
- Conduct regular site inspections, sign off completed works and maintain accurate property records.
- Ensure all projects meet health and safety and statutory compliance requirements (including CDM 2015).
- Provide weekly progress and budget reports to the Assistant Director of Property and Facilities.
- Build positive working relationships with site teams, service managers and internal stakeholders.
Qualification, Experience and Training
Essential:
- Degree in Building Surveying, or a related field.
- Experience delivering or supporting small works or refurbishment projects.
- Strong technical knowledge of building construction and compliance.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills with a keen eye for detail.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between North London and Berkshire sites.
Desirable:
- Working towards or newly qualified MRICS/MCIOB.
- Experience within the charity, public or social housing sectors.
- Knowledge of CDM 2015 Regulations and statutory compliance.
Reward & Benefits
We offer a supportive, purpose-driven environment with:
- Hybrid and flexible working
- 21 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Jewish Holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Blue Light Card scheme access
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free eye tests and eyewear allowance
- Opportunities for development and leadership coaching
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Maintenance Surveyor
We are looking for a Maintenance Surveyor with considerable experience in construction or maintenance project management.
Position: Maintenance Surveyor
Salary: £49,340 Per annum
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week Monday - Friday
Location: Hammersmith, West London, hybrid with 2 days in the office
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November
Shortlisted candidates will be required to participate in an assessment as part of the selection process. This will be held on the day of your interview, if you are invited to participate.
About the role:
In this role, you will support the Director of Property and Estate Services and contribute by providing technical advice and oversight to deliver high quality, resident-focused maintenance service. You will maintain external relationships with tenants and leaseholders, local authority Councillors, representatives from emergency, social and healthcare services, consultants and contractors.
Your main responsibilities will include
- The provision of technical advice to team members to enable repairs order to be raised appropriately.
- Manage a programme of work to comply with statutory and regulatory health and safety obligations.
- Manage a portfolio of major repair projects, and the process of specifying, implementing and completing void works.
- Engagement with residents to carry out pre and post repair inspections and statutory consultations
- Manage disrepair claims, damp and mould cases, and respond to complaints within given timescales.
About You:
As Maintenance Surveyor you will have a technical qualification in construction or maintenance related subject area. We are looking for a highly organised, self-motivated, collaborative and outcome-focused professional with a significant amount of knowledge of works ordering systems and obtaining competitive quotations.
If you are passionate about bringing excellence to your work, enjoy collaborating with others and can demonstrate commitment in all that you do, we would love to hear from you.
About the Organisation
This organisation is dedicated to making a positive impact through providing high-quality housing and services. With a strong community focus, they are committed to delivering safe, secure and affordable homes while ensuring residents have a voice in shaping the services they receive. This is an exciting time to join, with significant development projects and new office facilities in West London.
The organisation takes pride in being equitable, inclusive and respectful providing a safe environment in which residents come first. Staff live these values and applicants will need to demonstrate alignment with them in daily actions, interactions, decisions and priorities.
Pre-employment checks are carried out to ensure that successful applicants are suitable to work with adults at risk. These include basic DBS checks, obtaining references and verifying a candidate’s identity and Right to Work in the UK.
All qualified applicants already eligible to work in the UK will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status or pregnancy. If you need us to make any special accommodation in the recruitment and selection process because of a protected characteristic, please let us know.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Building Surveyor, Property Surveyor, Repairs Surveyor, Voids Surveyor, Maintenance Manager, Technical Officer, Asset Surveyor, Repairs and Maintenance Officer, Building Maintenance Coordinator, Project Surveyor, Property Services Manager. Etc. #INDNFP
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Electrical Services Surveyor
£42,500 up to £46,871 inclusive annual salary up to 19.7% employer pension contribution plus essential car user allowance
Permanent, 37 hours per week
Flexible working options including Hybrid working
P1223
About the role
In this post you will be responsible for the implementation, management, and delivery of all electrical, fire detection, door entry, lifts, CCTV and digital TV installation utilising the Council’s supply chain partners. This includes repair, maintenance, and major projects of existing and new installations to Council housing stock.
About you
You will take full responsibility for managing works and projects from the start to final delivery working on your own initiative and with minimal supervision. This will include budget management, preparing specifications, drawings, the procurement of contracts, supervision of electrical related programmes of works to the Council’s housing stock.
Ideally you should have a degree in Building Surveying (or equivalent work experience in a similar Mechanical and Electrical role with a HNC/HND in Building Surveying/Construction, or a specific qualification within the Electrical field). Detailed working knowledge on a wide range of areas including building defects and their remedies is essential for this post.
Working knowledge of housing related law and best practice related to repairs, maintenance and improvements e.g. CDM and Building Regulations are essential for this post.
St Albans is a unique English Cathedral City with a colourful history which can be seen in the Roman remains and variety of beautiful architecture, heritage sites and conservation areas. Set within green belt, off the M25, A1M and M1 the District includes a cathedral, vibrant city centre and thriving villages. Our centrally located offices in the city are near to the station (London St Pancras 20 minutes), shops and restaurants. In short it is a great place to live and work.
In addition to working within a great team and a comprehensive salary you will have access to:
• 28.5 days basic annual leave (increasing with service) bank holidays. Please note: annual leave will be pro-rated for anyone who does not have a standard full-time pattern of 37 hours over 5 days, e.g. part-timers
• Local Government Pension Scheme with current employer contribution up to 19.7 percent employer contributions
• Flexible working options Staff Parking Permit
• Reimbursement of professional fees
• Comprehensive development and training
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres
• Access to discounts and benefits via online platform
Additional Information
Disability Confident: We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets all the essential criteria for the post.
Safeguarding: This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Check.
English Fluency: The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Closing date for applications: 5th November 2025
Interviews scheduled for week commencing: 17th November 2025
NOTE: Interviews are conducted throughout the application process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy at an earlier date and we strongly encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
You may experience in the following: Electrical Engineer, Building Services Engineer (Electrical Bias), Electrical Design Engineer, Electrical Project Engineer, Electrical Services Engineer, M&E Engineer (Mechanical & Electrical Engineer), Electrical Systems Engineer, etc.
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Please apply using our Application Form which can be downloaded via Charity Job. Working days are to be agreed with the successful applicant for this part-tme, 21-hour position.
The West Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church is looking for an individual to provide technical expertise on buildings and property in support of Synod Officers, members of Synod Committees and local churches.
This post will involve some travel to properties around the West Midlands (Shropshire, Staffordshire (including the Black Country), Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Birmingham (including the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield and Solihull Metropolitan Borough) and all of Gloucestershire except that covered by the South Gloucestershire Local Authority)
The successful candidate will be working to a wide brief and is expected to undertake a range of duties including, but not limited to, advising and initiating action on property issues in local churches, overseeing quinquennial inspections and manse inspections, and providing advice on property-related matters to Synod Committees.
We are looking for someone who:
- has experience of property matters either through extensive operational management or through the practice of a relevant profession, while holding appropriate qualifications at higher or professional level
- has some knowledge of charity procedures
- is a team player and is used to working collaboratively
- possesses effective oral and written communication skills
- possesses sound IT skills
- has a willingness to work within the Christian ethos of the United Reformed Church
- can work flexibly with some evening and weekend work
- is a car driver (as many of our properties cannot be easily reached by public transport)
In return we can offer a friendly, supportive and flexible working environment, five weeks’ annual leave and a contributory pension scheme.
We do not accept CVs and require candidates to fill in an application form to ensure we consider each person on equal terms. We follow United Reformed Church Safer Recruitment Policy and Practice.
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Monday 20 October 2025.
Interviews will be held in the week beginning 17 November 2025.
Registered Charity
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