Housing Standards Mid Level Surveyor

Salary: £34,484-£38,220 per annum

Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Selby, North Yorkshire.

Selby area with the expectation to visit sites across the county.

Our Service

The purpose of our Service is to provide quality, affordable, healthy, and sustainable homes that meet the present and future needs of all our tenants.

The Housing Standards team is made up of five closely linked areas of housing expertise i.e., construction, repairs, improvements, contract management, and safety. Each team consists of suitably qualified, skilled, and experienced trade operatives, surveyors, or contract supervisors.

The role

As a member of the Housing Safety Team, you will contribute to the overall success of the Housing Standards Team through a combination of reactive and planned surveys/risk assessments. Those surveys/risk assessments will inform the Housing Improvement, De-carbonisation and compliance programs of work.

The team are responsible for ensuring the council’s housing assets are maintained to meet all current statutory, regularity and legislative standards.

You will complete onsite compliance inspections such as fire alarm testing, emergency lighting testing and legionella controls in housing assets, conduct surveys and produce schedules of works for void properties to meet the lettable standard, advising the income officer of works that may be recharged to the tenant, conduct energy performance assessments and support senior surveyors as required

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For more details, please see the attached job description.

What you will bring.

You will have knowledge of health and safety relating to built assets, knowledge of legislation in respect of building compliance, knowledge of data protection regulations and knowledge of housing construction.

Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and oral with the ability to problem solve and find pragmatic solutions and excellent customer service skills.

Working for us

When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and well-being plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. Plus, lots more…

Contact and apply.

If you would like to learn more about our role, please contact [email protected] for an informal conversation.

Key Documents

Job Description

Total Rewards Brochure

Key dates

Closing date: 17th August 2025

Interview dates 26th and 28th August 2025

NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.