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Title: Stock Condition Surveyor x 4
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £44,000 per annum (London weighted salary) or £40,000 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience
Grade: 8
Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford
Working Location: Hybrid
Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing Date: 24th November 2025 at 11pm
nterview Dates: 27th and 28th November 2025 at via Ms Teams
Role Profile - Stock Condition Surveyor X4.docx
Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
Join our Stock Condition Survey Team at L&Q:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Asset Strategy team as a Stock Condition Surveyor within our Property Services Assets Strategy division. You will play an instrumental part in helping us to better understand our stock and improve our stock intelligence, helping underpin our long-term asset strategy and shape our investment plans and expenditure of up to £200m per year in improving our existing homes.
In this role, you will be responsible for actively conducting stock condition surveys across our portfolio, ensuring any changes to stock are accurately and consistently recorded to update the organisation’s asset register. Also ensuring technical knowledge is applied to all stock condition related activities.
For an initial period you will be completing surveys within the following areas (with the exception of the Manchester surveyor role):-
Greenwich
Bexley
Bromley
Barking and Dagenham
Havering
Thurrock
Croydon
Lewisham
However, moving forward you will be assigned to work in one or more boroughs that make up L&Qs housing stock. When applying, please refer to the map attached – CLICK LINK London & SE Map.pdf; London & SE Map 2.pdf;NW Boroughs Map.pdf detailing the boroughs L&Q hold responsibility for, and specify the borough/s that would be preferential for covering, according to commute and living area.
As you will be required to travel as part of this role, we will require candidates to have a full driving license and access to a vehicle.
Your impact in the role:
· The job entails carrying out surveys for dwellings, communal areas, garages and other L&Q assets.
· You will work closely with all other staff within the Asset Strategy team providing technical advice and support on all aspects of asset management. Capturing data to ensure compliance with Decent Homes and the Housing Health & Safety Rating System (HHSRS) with knowledge of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.
· You will record all data collected on PDA or tablet for uploading into our main database. Gather information relating to previous and current planned programmes and use this data to update existing stock condition component information and updating and interpret information retained within the asset management databases.
· You will work closely with our Stock Condition Administrators, ensuring appointments are diarised and completed on time, with identified HHSRS hazards and decent home failures reported within the appropriate regulatory timescale.
· You will work well within your own team and be able to effectively engage with colleagues from other teams to solve problems and find the best solutions.
What you'll bring:
· Minimum HND/HNC in construction, or similar qualification
· Experience of undertaking stock condition surveys and developing asset investment programmes.
· Ability to identify property and customer needs and develop appropriate solutions.
· Excellent data handling and analysis skills.
·Decent Homes, HHSRS, Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act, Gas safety, Legionella and IEE regulations.
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk
About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.
Applications will be favourably received from those who live within, or close proximity to, their chosen borough/s.
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.
L&Q strongly believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important, and inclusion is part of our core values and everyday working practices. We make hiring decisions based on your experiences, skills and merits and we are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace. Click here to read more.
At L&Q, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.
Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!
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