Estates Surveyor Contract Full Time

Estates Surveyor needed in Braintree Paying  £400 per day ref 17010

Full time hours on a temporary basis

Accountabilities: 

• Landlord and Tenant professional and estate management work including leasehold and rent review negotiations, using comparable market evidence for the investment portfolio and land to maximise value.
• Advise colleagues on the best course of estates action, supporting colleagues with their service objectives.
• Ensuring details are processed by the asset team so that records are accurate and rent is raised correctly, including business rates.
• Monitor debt on the allocated portfolio for monthly review with the Head of Service. Taking instructions in relation to enforcement action.
• Progress leases, licences, wayleaves, easements, from agreement of Heads of Terms through to a successful completion.
• Undertake agency work including viewings, support with valuation inspections.
• Conduct a programme of property and land inspections to check L&T obligations, documenting records and working with the wider team to plan remedial works.
• Deal with estates issues such as land management disputes, encroachment, unauthorised structures, and assist other services with remedial action.
• Ensuring H&S and EPC property compliance for areas the Landlord controls, with support from the Asset & Project Officer and the Building Surveyor, identify remedial works, support with tenant liaison.
• Support the Council’s annual asset valuation programme, responding promptly to queries from finance and audit.
• Assist the Building Surveyor and Asset & Project Officers with tenant liaison for minor works, ensuring relationships with occupiers are maintained to mitigate claims for loss of income.
• Support the service to identify surplus and underutilised properties.
• Support with the governance processes including ensuring property transaction processes are completed, assist the HOS with reports and committee requirements.

Ideal Experience:

• Ideally Membership of RICS, ARIC or working towards professional accreditation.
• Educated to degree level in property discipline.
• Several years’ experience of estates management on commercial and corporate property portfolios ideally some of this within the public sector.
• Extensive experience of conducting rent reviews, lease renews, including good understanding of the processes to follow.
• Extensive experience in transaction negotiations, utilising correct process to identify correct rental levels.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with staff, members, tenants, consultants and contractors.
• Ability to work in pressurised environment, to priorities work, to positively manage expectations.
• Good ability to utilise the Council’s property database, Microsoft offices, finance database for orders etc.
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to write structured professional reports.

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to verity@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

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