Job Ref: 215804897

Date: 2022-02-14 10:22:09

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The Vacancy

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone with passion and drive to join our new role of Technical Quality Surveyor bringing adding value to a business that has a strong social purpose to help people find the right homes in the right places.

About the role

If you are passionate about our built environment and want to make a change to the housing landscape, then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for as there has never been a more exciting time to join a recently formed technical and quality team for a leading social housing provider. Paradigm Housing Group aim to build good quality, affordable homes for people mostly across the South-East of England. We are a financially strong Values driven organisation with friendly, hardworking people and ambitious plans for the future.

Our ideal candidate has a recognised degree level of qualification or equivalent preferably in a Built Environment related discipline along with a working knowledge of quality control and technical process to ensure compliance with the latest and current legislation and quality standards, Health & Safety legislation, Building Regulations, the Building Safety Act and Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.

This is a pivotal role within the organisation to help us move forward with our ambitious build programme whilst supporting the delivery team to ensure all our new homes meet our stringent design and quality standards and our construction sites and new homes are safe and complaint.

There are five key positions within the Design & Quality Team and the Technical Quality Surveyor is one of two roles reporting to the D&Q Manager (Post-Contract). There is plenty of scope for collaboration as the Development directorate is made up of around 40 people in various professional disciplines.

About you

We are looking for someone with good working knowledge of the quality control and technical process and a passion for excellent service who has experience in the Built Environment. Working via a mixture of hybrid working from home, on site and at our office in High Wycombe.

Our ideal candidate will have:  

on-site experience and knowledge of the latest legislation and quality standards, Health & Safety legislation, Building Regulations, the Building Safety Act and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.

a proven track record and experience in social residential housing, understand the NHBC (National Housing Building Confederation) and other warranty provider’s function and requirements.

the ability to work through complex issues and inspect works on site against construction drawings, design guides, specifications, legislation standards and regulations etc

While we are looking for someone with a degree or equivalent preferably in a Built Environment related discipline, we do have a comprehensive personal and professional development suite available to all of our employees. So not only is this a great opportunity to join a high performing and specialist team at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the future success of our business, you can continue to grow and develop yourself, building a rewarding career with a growing business.

About us

We are a values’ driven, ambitious organisation. We’re Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. We are clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions
Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
Annual Bonus potential
Professional Sponsorship Scheme (subject to conditions) and professional subscriptions paid
Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
Remote / hybrid working
Up to 3 paid Volunteer days a year
Newly created modern offices collaborative offices, with free parking and charging points for electric vehicles
Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
Rewards platform
Opportunities for career advancement –
Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.

Further information

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (url removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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