Job Role: RCA Manager/ Building Surveyor
Salary: From £60,000 per annum plus £5,500 car allowance
Location: Midlands
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
At Innovus, we are committed to delivering market leading solutions and professional services. As an RCA Manager, you will be contributing to our vision to recognised as the market leading provider of services to the UK’s property sector.
We are proud to employ highly skilled, experienced and innovative people who deliver business expertise and services across the property industry.
Main Purpose of the role:
- Manage a national team of Reinstatement Cost Assessment (RCA) Surveyors.
- Undertaking surveying and insurance activities that significantly contribute to the success of the team.
- Imparting technical knowledge and experience across the team, that positively benefits our clients and customers alike.
- Acting as a critical support to the Director of Surveying, being able to assist and engage on projects of a highly technical or process intensive nature.
Main Responsibilities
- Surveying properties and preparing RCA reports.
- Preparing documentation in accordance with all RICS regulations and best practice.
- Ensuring that all instructions are carried out in line with Company procedures and legal requirements.
- Supervising the team to ensure excellent customer care, exemplary performance, and technically superb completed work.
- Contributing to excellent performance management; building constructive working relationships with partners to improve customer service, value for money and quality of workmanship.
- Undertaking CPD in accordance with the requirements of your professional body, including receiving and delivering CPD within the surveying team.
- Identifying potential business opportunities outside of core client and assisting the Director of Surveying in obtaining new business with external clients.
- Linking with the core client team to ensure good communications between the client and the surveying team.
- Support and develop the team direction in both capability and product offering.
- Carrying out any other duties in relation to the efficient operation of the team and assist the Director of Surveying as required.
Key Interfaces
- Property Managers, Regional Managers and Heads of Operations.
- Business to Business Interfaces through business growth.
- External businesses and organisations, in particular key customers and clients
Qualifications
Experience
- Substantial technical building surveying experience in the Insurance and Property Management environment with a wide range of building types.
- Demonstrable successful project delivery experience managing contractors and consultants as required.
- Sound commercial understanding of a surveying ‘practice’ and ability to clearly articulate commercial performance with senior managers
- Experience and willingness to build relationships with the team to identify and drive improvement opportunities.
- An in depth understanding of the H&S issues and regulations that apply to surveying, contractor management and project delivery.
- Significant understanding of the RCA process and procedure as well as Residential Property Sector and Regulatory knowledge including Section 20 process, CDM.
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stake holders, at all levels within the business.
- Experience with AOV’s, Emergency Call Systems and Fire Panels would be an advantage.
Skills
- RCA and Insurance industry experience would be helpful
- People management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Project management and delivery skills.
- Experience of Insurance Remediation works e.g. Fire and Flood damage is desirable.
- IT Skills, Windows, report writing etc. (BCIS, databases)
The Benefits
Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We’ll support you with all of the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages. In addition to the core benefits, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health.
Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to promoting diversity at Innovus and recruit on merit. We will consider applications from job share applicants.
Innovus is an inclusive employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. If you have an additional need at any stage of our recruitment and selection process do speak to one of our team to let us know how we can accommodate you.
Ready to apply?
Click the below apply button to start your application for this role. We will ask you to upload your CV and answer a few questions. You may also be asked to complete verbal and numerical reasoning tests online.
Please note, due to our sector all roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS.
If you meet the criteria for the role, we’ll be in touch to arrange a short telephone interview and our shortlist of candidates will be invited to attend a first interview with the hiring manager and another member of our team.