Building Surveying Technician

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Please apply online via the link provided.

Please note, we do not accept CVs submitted without a fully completed online application form.

Building Surveying Technician

Grade 6 - £32,061 to £37,280 per annum plus Level 3 Benefit Allowance of £2,278.

37 Hours per week Monday – Friday

Permanent Role

Hastings Borough Council is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Building Surveying Technician to join its Building Surveying Team and make a positive impact on the Council’s property portfolio.

In this role you can enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working, allowing you to work from home or at our seafront Hastings Office, or a combination of both. It should be noted that the position entails travel to our office and throughout the borough for regular site visits and meetings, that on occasion may be at short notice.

Purpose of the Job:

As a Building Surveying Technician with us, you'll play an important role in assisting the Principal Building Surveyor and Building Surveyor in delivering the Council's in-house building surveying function.

Your prime responsibility will be to effectively deliver a range of facilities management orientated cyclical maintenance activities, along with a variety of other small improvement and alteration works on a broad range of buildings, built assets, and civil engineering infrastructure in the Council’s diverse non-housing, operational, amenity, commercial and public realm portfolio.

Examples of Key Responsibilities:

• Arrange structural consultant’s annual health and safety inspections of the Council’s concrete promenade structures and produce schedule of works and obtain costings for any resulting repairs under the council’s annual repairs programme. Monitor the works to completion ensuring they are within budget and to the agreed timescales.
• Assist in arranging geotechnical consultants’ two and six yearly cliff inspection reports. Assist with the production of work schedules and obtain quotations for the resulting cliff remedial works. Assist with monitoring the work to completion ensuring they are within the allocated budget and to the agreed timescale.
• Manage the council’s public realm bus shelter and street nameplate reactive repair and replacement programmes, ensuring that they are undertaken within the allocated budget and timescales.
• Subject to the postholder’s skill set, provide CAD plans of existing properties and for small, planned alteration works where required for both the Building Surveying Team and colleagues in other teams.

Some Essential Requirements:

• ONC or HNC in building construction, building surveying or civil engineering studies or a similar allied subjects at an equivalent level.
• Demonstrable experience in property maintenance, improvement, and alteration environment.
• Experience in obtaining quotations, job administration and completion of minor repair works projects including negotiation and agreement of final accounts.

• Good verbal communication and contract negotiation skills
• Current clean full UK Driver’s License and access to own vehicle for business use.

For a full list of responsibilities and a complete person specification please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document.

Benefits:

• 27 days Annual Leave (pro-rated for part time staff) rising to 32 days after 5 years’ service, 35 days after 10 years and 37 days after 15 years.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your Health & Wellbeing.
• E-Learning Development Hub.
• A generous local government pension provided by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Fully supported Hybrid Working arrangements.
• Flexible working scheme to support you in achieving a good work/life balance.

Deadline for Applications : 06/04/2026 @ 12:00pm

Interviews will take place in person at our Muriel Matters House Office, TN34 3UY.