Make a real difference to homes, safety and resident wellbeing.

We’re looking for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Building Surveyor to join our Repairs & Maintenance service. This is a specialist role where you will lead on the investigation, diagnosis and resolution of disrepair issues across our housing stock ensuring our homes are safe, decent, compliant and fit for human habitation.

If you’re passionate about building pathology, quality standards, problemsolving and improving customer experience, we’d love to hear from you.

You must have the following:

A degree/diploma in Building Surveying, Construction or related field or equivalent experience.
A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the borough.

Benefits of the role include

Flexible/agile working arrangements
Opportunities for professional development and progression
The chance to shape service improvements and influence policies
A supportive team culture committed to resident safety, quality and continuous improvement

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council
To hear about the benefits for working with Bury Council, please visit Bury - Home | greater.jobs
We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

Next steps

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Mubs Disrepair Manager on 07973731585
Interviews will be held on beginning of September 2026.

Supporting Documents

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