Asset Surveyor
Join Magna as an Asset Surveyor: inspect homes, shape maintenance programmes, and deliver great homes with a collaborative, customer‑focused team.
£43,047 per annum
37 hours per week
Permanent
Home-based with regular travel
Midday on the 4th June 2026
Please be aware that we are unable to provide Visa Sponsorship against this role. Applicants must already have the legal right to work and reside in the UK without the need for Employer Sponsorship.
At Magna, our vision is to create great homes together. We have ambitious plans, and are seeking creative, aspirational, and talented people to join our fast paced, adaptable, and highly collaborative environment.
What you'll take care of.
This is a key role in helping Magna deliver its purpose of creating great homes together. You will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating closely with our wider colleagues to achieve best practices. Your duties will involve surveying our homes in connection to future planned and cyclical works and response repairs, to deliver a service in a modern and efficient way to meet our customer’s needs and requirements. You will need to carry out inspection and surveys of homes from inception to completion, ensuring they meet the highest standards and achieve optimal levels of customer satisfaction.
• You will be part of a team, that completes capital and revenue works programmes, stock condition surveys, EPC and response repairs inspection. These tasks will include gathering information on asbestos, energy performance, legionella and the housing health and safety ratings systems, along with details of the building components.
• You will assist in the analyse the data for future investment programmes.
• You will play a key role in consulting and liaising with our customers directly to resolve issues and be an ambassador for Magna.
• Assist in resolving any customer complaints to a satisfactory resolve for all concerned.
What you need to be successful
• A comprehensive knowledge of the development of survey programmes, enabling you to assist with the interpretation and analysis of property data. This expertise will support the creation of major and cyclical maintenance programmes, ensuring that stock is maintained to meet required regulatory and statutory standards.
• The capacity to engage with all sectors of the business through a 'one team' approach, fostering and sustaining relationships with our customers and colleagues.
• You will have excellent customer facing skills with good technical knowledge.
Magna Benefits:
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
We offer:
Pension matched up to 8%.
Employee assistance & Health Care Cash Plan.
Learning and Development.
Company sick pay.
Wellbeing Portal and Colleague Voice.
Mileage and Agile working.
Paid day a year to volunteer.
Rental / Stamp Duty Loan and Credit Union.
Discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
Competitive annual leave entitlement, which increases progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.
Our full range of benefit details can be viewed on our website under each vacancy.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Matt Jones – Talent People Manager at: matt.jones@magna.org.uk or by mobile: 07484532274
To apply please visit our website www.magna.org.uk, select Careers Tab / Current Vacancies / Role, or follow the link attached to this advert.
Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.
Application Guidance Notes
You should only apply for this vacancy if you are legally entitled to work in the UK. The Job Profile lists the requirements for the job you are applying for. When shortlisting for interview, the selection panel will consider only the information contained in your application form and will assess this against the Job Profile. Certain jobs are subject to a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check which will be taken up on the offer of employment (please see vacancy advert to know if this relates to the job you are applying for). If the job requires a DBS check, you will be asked to declare all current or previous offences, whether spent or not, if you are short listed for an interview.
- Department
- Asset Investment & Delivery
- Role
- Asset Surveyor
- Locations
- Home-based with regular travel
- Yearly salary
- £43,048
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- 04 June, 2026
- Closing time
- Midday
- Job profile
- https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/magna2020/files/Asset-Surveyor-Role-Profile-V20125026.pdf
Benefits and perks
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Your annual leave entitlement starts at 5 weeks plus bank holidays and will increase progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.
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If you're unwell and not able to work due to ill health, you'll receive paid sick pay based on your length of service with us.
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You receive a Social Housing Pension Scheme defined contribution. You get to decide how much you want to contribute (between 4% and 8%) and we will match this.
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We invest in your development at #TeamMagna. Our dedicated People Talent Team can help support you with your career progression and learning to help you go further, learn new skills and gain new qualifications.
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If you need to use your own vehicle to do your job, we'll pay you 45p per mile and an extra 5p for any passengers.
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Depending on your role, we support colleagues to work flexibly, including where, when and how, to help you get your work-life balance right and for us to get the best from you.
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We're proud to support our local communities and encourage you to get involved by taking one paid day a year to volunteer.
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Depending on your length of service, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
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All colleagues have access to FUSE, a wellbeing portal which provides useful help and advice on a range of wellbeing topics, such as healthy eating, increasing your daily exercise, sleeping well and making healthier lifestyle choices. You can even ask questions directly to an expert.
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We have a group of dedicated colleagues who meet regularly to represent the views of all our colleagues.
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Following one year of working for us, you can apply for an interest free loan of up to £1,000 to help with house moving costs.
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We are partnered with Westcountry Savings & Loans to provide credit union facilities to colleagues and customers. You can apply to save with them or take out a loan from them.
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We provide an Employee Assistance service which offers up to 8 individual counselling sessions and support is available to our colleagues, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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All colleagues have access to Medicash, a health cash back scheme, where you can claim money back on your day to day medical and wellbeing costs (up to annual claim limits).
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Medicash can offer discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
Workplace and culture
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
Our values
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Always safe
This means the safety of our colleagues and our customers is always our main priority.
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All about customers
This is our mindset and our team approach to putting customers at the heart of all we do.
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Be kind
This is about how we treat each other and how we go about our business.
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Own it
This is about how we all take responsibility for all our actions every day.
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One team
This is how we come together as #teammagna, embracing our diversity and recognising that together we can achieve outstanding results.
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Be curious
This is about how we learn about each other, our customers and our business. Learning helps make sure we all do the right thing, how we challenge convention and look beyond existing boundaries.
About Magna Housing
We’re proud to be a community-based housing association, providing homes and services to people in the South-West. We’re here to understand our customers’ needs and create places where they feel safe, belong, and can build a future.