SHW is an independent multi-disciplined property real estate advisory business. With nine offices across London and the South East, we serve our clients across the UK, providing the right answers to their property needs and making property work for their benefit.
We recruiting for a Property Inspector who will be responsible for inspecting properties largely in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, although the successful candidate may be asked from time to time to inspect properties outside of the Borough. This role involves liaising with colleagues, organising inspections, undertaking inspections, and following up on actions from inspections. The Property Inspector will ensure that properties meet the required standards and regulations, and will provide detailed reports on their findings. The role will also involve using an online inspection app to streamline the inspection process and improve efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Inspect Properties: Conduct thorough inspections of properties to assess their condition and compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
- Liaise with Colleagues: Work closely with colleagues to coordinate inspection schedules and share findings.
- Organise Inspections: Plan diarise and schedule property inspections, ensuring all necessary preparations are made including writing to tenants and occupiers prior to the inspection.
- Undertake Inspections: Perform detailed inspections, documenting any issues or areas for improvement using the online inspection app.
- Follow Up on Actions: Ensure that any required actions from inspections are correctly assigned and notified to the relevant stakeholders (landlord, Tenant, contractors, property management). To follow up and close out the actions to ensure that they are completed and documented.
- Liaison: To collaborate with clients, property & facility managers, H&S compliance team and contractors to address the ongoing concerns.
Personal Specification, Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
- Good organisational skills.
- Previous experience in property inspection or a related field.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of property regulations and standards.
- Proficiency in using online inspection apps or similar digital tools.
- Experience of using property management systems to obtain information
SHW is committed to encouraging respect, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and eliminating discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be representative of all sections of society, and for each employee and client to feel respected in an equitable environment.
We would love to respond to each and every applicant, however, due to the high volume of applications we will only contact you if you meet the requirements for our roles at the time advertised.
We also want to ensure that your application can be considered for all relevant roles across the SHW partnership companies, including subsidiary and affiliate companies. We believe that this will ensure that talented people interested in developing their career with us, will be considered for the widest range of opportunities that we can provide and will also receive the best candidate experience.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that your personal data may be shared with other SHW Group subsidiary and affiliate companies in support of this objective. All data will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and our Privacy Policy, which can be found here: www.shw.co.uk/privacy/ .
Please be advised that CV’s will be held for a minimum of 3 months, therefore, if we consider your skills are more suited to other vacancies, we may contact you during the 3–6-month period to discuss your application further. If you do not wish for your data to be held on our systems for this period of time, please contact: [email protected] and ask for your data to be deleted from our systems.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience using online inspection apps or similar digital tools?
Experience:
- Property inspection : 2 years (required)
Work Location: In person
