Project Surveyor

Number of Vacancies

4

Time Type

Full time

Worker Type

Regular

Proposed Interview Date

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Hours of Work

37

Hiring Manager

Leanne Kendall

Contact Number

01482 614232

Job Description Summary

This is a Full Time Permanent Position x 4

Interviews will take place on 25 26 August

About Us

Hull City Council established its Building Safety Team in 2024 in response to major legislative changes, including the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act, and Fire Safety (England) Regulations, introduced following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Our team is dedicated to ensuring the safety of multi-occupancy dwellings across the city.

This includes oversight of

• 19 high-rise buildings
• 7 medium-rise buildings
• 4 sheltered blocks
• 445 low-rise blocks

We work in close partnership with the Housing Investment Team, which manages responsive and cyclical maintenance, specialist compliance works, planned improvement projects, and refurbishment schemes for a stock of 24,000 domestic properties. In addition, we collaborate with the High-Rise Tenancy and Facilities Management teams to deliver a comprehensive approach to building safety.

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for four full-time, permanent Project Surveyors to join the Building Safety Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Review fire risk assessments and implement necessary compliance works.
• Conduct routine communal inspections across high-rise, sheltered, and low-rise blocks, identifying repairs to meet fire safety and health safety standards.
• Oversee delivery of fire safety improvement projects, including:

o Fire door replacements

o Installation of dry risers

o Fire compartmentation upgrades

o Installation of sprinkler systems

o Installation of fire detection systems

• Ensuring compliance with ‘The Big 6’ (Fire, Gas, Electrical, Water Hygiene, Asbestos, and Lifts).
• Produce detailed specifications and prepare Building Control applications.
• Provide technical fire safety knowledge to other council departments.

What We’re Looking For

The successful candidates will be professional, empathetic, and able to handle sensitive issues appropriately, referring to relevant services when necessary.

To maintain high standards of competence within the Building Safety Team, ongoing training and development will be provided. Candidates must demonstrate essential skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours aligned with the role.

Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

Working Arrangements

The role offers flexibility, with work based across offices, home, and site locations, depending on team needs and daily requirements.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Leanne Kendall, Programme Manager 01482 614 232 Leanne.Kendall@hullcc.gov.uk or Wayne Kendall, Programme Manager 01482 615 585 Wayne.Kendall@hullcc.gov.uk

ROLE

PURPOSE OF JOB

To provide professional technical expertise for the purpose of delivering a full Corporate Surveying Service within a legal framework. This is to be achieved by conducting a range of surveys to prescribed schedules, auditing of works completed against prescribed standards, and preparing relevant documentation and specifications to support tender processes and contract delivery.

The post holder will also be responsible for delegated contract management and budget control for capital revenue maintenance schemes to the Council’s housing stock of approximately 29,000 properties, garages sites and communal areas. This involves the performance management of a number of concurrent maintenance contracts to ensure works are completed to plan and to exacting levels of quality and compliance. This will require attendance on site and at meetings with a range of stakeholders to assure regular communication and to resolve issues/complaints.

Progress and cabinet reports must also be provided according to prescribed governance arrangements.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults.

2. Customer Focus – To be customer focused to ensure communication regarding programmes and projects is effective at all levels with stakeholders to ensure requirements are identified and evaluated to ensure needs are being met.

To manage demanding, abusive, upsetting, and difficult situations appropriately with customers in their homes.

3. Performance Management – To undertake site visits and meetings with clients, contractors, other interested parties and statutory undertakings to ascertain their requirements and whether their needs are being met. In addition, provide professional and technical advice, both verbally and written, as required.

Produce detailed reports outlining performance against contractual targets and national performance indicators with recommendations regarding non-compliance actions.

Responsible for the performance management of budgets by proposing solutions and implementing agreed actions for any potential over or under spend.

4. Statutory Obligations – To ensure that all works to properties within their area of responsibility are repaired and maintained to a Decent Homes Home standard, and to any statutory legal or adopted standards.

5. To undertake various types of surveys to council housing stock, including dilapidation, home standard, Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), Asset Surveys, Fire Safety Audits, Energy and Condition surveys to inform work programmes and content using relevant IT systems.

6. To be responsible for compiling detailed specifications and contractual documentation, including business cases, to deliver revenue and capital contracts.

7. Responsible for providing technical and specialist advice, either verbally or written to customers, Housing Managers, Elected Members, Senior Managers, Emergency Services and Utility Providers.

8. To support the recovery and complaints procedures, including gathering evidence, photographing recording damage and providing witness statements. Attend court, liaise, and give advice to the appointed legal personnel on recoverable order issues and insurance claims as well as supporting the witness statement.

9. Plan, organise, conduct and attend meetings as required, including contractual meetings and liaising with all stakeholders. Deputising for the Programme Manager as required.

10. Responsible for ensuring robust audit trails are in place to allow for the authorising and approving of orders and invoices by ensuring an appropriate separation of duties and compliance with internal contract procedure rules.

11. Will be required to produce detailed technical drawings, specifications and plans which comply with all relevant legislation, regulations, policies, and procedures.

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Compensation Grades

GRADES 8.

Pay Ranges

£36,363.00 - £39,152.00

Job Classifications

3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), Essential 3A - It is essential for the postholder to have a current driving licence and to provide a car for work. (i.e. someone who did not meet these requirements could not be appointed to the post, since it would be impossible for the postholder to do the job without using a private car). These requirements would be essential criteria on the person specification for the post. (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement), No - (Statutory Post)

Benefits of

Working of Hull City Council

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.