Apprentice Surveying Technician (Level 3)

Summary

We are looking for a Surveying Technician to join our Building Maintenance team to undertake essential tasks relating to compliance and property data collection.

Annual wage

£24,362 a year

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Salary: Band 5: £24,362 - £26,073 p.a.

Training course

Surveying technician (level 3)

Hours

Days and shifts are to be confirmed.

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 2 December

Duration

2 Years 3 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

What can we offer?

We will support you by providing opportunities to undertake additional training, develop your current abilities to enable you to effectively carry out accurate surveys. Our Senior Building Surveyors will provide guidance and advice at all stages while you work alongside our existing apprentice team.

You will have opportunities within the team to gain building surveying experience whilst studying part time towards a level 3 Diploma in Surveying and following a successful end point assessment you will become an associate member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS).

As well as competitive pay you will receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, including flexible working hours, extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme and a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return. We wish to support all our staff's development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement with continual personal development, we will work together to drive your career. For those with families we have childcare benefits as well as discounts with local businesses which can be enjoyed by all.

What is the role?

Based at one of our area housing offices and reporting directly to a Senior Building Surveyor, you will be working as part of a team of apprentices and experienced Building Surveyors. You will assist the team to manage our assets by undertaking a range of property surveys and essential compliance tasks. These will include:

Energy Performance Certificates
Vacant property surveys
Stock condition & data surveys
General compliance surveys
Repair quality surveys

You will be supporting our Building Surveyors who carry out a wide range of repairs surveys across our varied asset portfolio of over 17,000 council owned or leasehold properties in Portsmouth and Havant, together with corporate operational, commercial and community assets. You will be supporting the team to maintain and improve our properties while ensuring the right repairs are carried out at the right time.

You will undertake stock condition surveys followed by timely updates to the stock database. Your input will help to ensure that we have up to date, accurate information for our properties to enable us to run precise measures and identify areas needing improvement.

As a Surveying Technician, you will also be responsible for ensuring our homes have compliant and up to date energy performance certificates to ensure that our potential customers have all the information they need to make an informed choice about the energy efficiency of a building before committing to signing a lease agreement.

Where you’ll work

Civic Offices

Guildhall Square

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO1 2AL

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

LEARNING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP LTD

Your training course

Surveying technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Your training plan

We will support you by providing opportunities to undertake additional training, develop your current abilities to enable you to effectively carry out accurate surveys. Our Senior Building Surveyors will provide guidance and advice at all stages while you work alongside our existing apprentice team.

You will have opportunities within the team to gain building surveying experience whilst studying part time towards a level 3 Diploma in Surveying and following a successful end point assessment you will become an associate member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4/C and above)
Math's (grade 4/C and above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative

Other requirements

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards: A generous pension scheme 26 days annual leave per year + bank holidays Flexible / hybrid working A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships Potential to purchase additional annual leave Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

About this company

Portsmouth City Council is the local authority of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined.

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Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

As well as competitive pay you will receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, including flexible working hours, extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme and a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.

We wish to support all our staff's development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement with continual personal development, we will work together to drive your career. For those with families we have childcare benefits as well as discounts with local businesses which can be enjoyed by all.

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