Site Surveyor

Location: Redditch

Job Type: Commercial

Contract: Full Time/Flexible Working

Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2024

The Vacancy

Here at Wates, we have an opportunity for a Site Surveyor to join our Living Space Responsive team in the Redditch area. Working in our responsive maintenance team you will be working closely with one of our existing social housing providers, so we are ideally looking for candidates with experience of this.

The focus of this role will be to produce the commercial outputs and effectively monitor/exercise cost control, as well as to liaise with client representative/s to ensure compliance with contractual service standards ensuring the company operates efficiently and profitably.

Key Accountabilities will include:


  • Producing Applications, Accounts & Invoices in the appropriate format in a timely manner

  • To ensure all costs incurred in the delivery of the service are appropriately coded, recorded authorised and recovered

  • To assist in the production of management information and performance reports (internal and external) monthly in approved formats

  • To keep commercial WIP and debt to an absolute minimum and in line with targets set by management

  • To ensure the timely production of valuations leading to invoice production within 9 calendar days of works completion

  • To provide support and enhance communication between WPS and the client.


We are looking for someone with financial and commercial awareness with a clear commitment to a customer-centres service. Ideally you will already be in a similar position and have experience within the social housing sector.

To be successful in this role you will be an excellent written and verbal communicator with an understanding of legislation in maintenance and property management.

What we offer:


  • Competitive salary, plus performance related reviews, opportunities for growth and advancement within the team

  • Extensive corporate benefits including, Pension, Health and Wellness programme,

  • Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.

  • Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity and up to 12 weeks fully paid paternity.



A bit about us:

Wates Group is one of the largest and most successful family-owned private construction, development and property services companies in the UK.

Within the Group, Wates Living Space is one of the UK’s leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year. Our leading position within the maintenance sector has enabled the business to realise ambitious strategic growth, offering our clients a truly integrated national service for all of their maintenance requirements.

As a progressive and rewarding business we offer our people the opportunity to grow their careers whilst working together to deliver the promises we make to our customers.

Our company values of integrity, intelligence, performance, teamwork and respect for people, communities and the environment run through our business at every level and are at the heart of everything we do.

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Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

  • Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
  • Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
  • Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.