Maintenance Manager

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Maintenance Manager (Repairs & Voids)

Salary: £46, 800 per annum plus benefits

Location: Leatherhead, Surrey

Full Time: 39 hours per week

About us:

Each year, we provide housing and support for more than 1,800 socially excluded and vulnerable people across Surrey, parts of Berkshire, West Sussex, and South-West London.

We make a difference to clients by enabling them to feel valued and supported. We have a strong sense of social responsibility and believe everyone should be able to live independent and fulfilling lives. Our values - respect, empowerment, responsibility, and excellence - guide everything we do.

The role:

We have been transforming lives for more than half a century, over this time we have successfully grown our services and developed strong relationships with our stakeholders, partners, and suppliers. We have ambitious plans, and we aim to continue to strengthen our activity and grow to support more clients in the future.

We currently manage just over 900 units (living accommodation) where we are responsible for repairs and maintenance. For this role we are looking for someone to manage our reactive repairs service and voids. This will include managing our In house Repairs Team and external contractors to ensure repairs and void works are completed to the required standards and timescales, along with ensuring our properties are safe, secure, and inspected at the required frequencies. There will be regular contact and liaison with our In-House Repairs Team, Transform staff, external contractors, and residents, so good communication skills are required.

The role will involve frequent travel across our stock portfolio, so you will need to have suitable transportation. This is also a hybrid role, but there will be a need to be in our various offices as and when required.

A basic DBS will be required for this role.

We are ideally looking for:

• Experience in delivering repairs, maintenance, and void management within the sector.
• Management of trade operatives or direct labour, and management of external contractors
• Delivery of works against agreed performance indicators, contractual and statutory requirements and within agreed budgets.
• Can produce specifications and ensure works are carried out to the required standard.
• Aware of property legislation and standards relating to social and supported housing
• Can organise their own workload and provide regular updates on progress.
• Good IT skills as this is a key part of the role.
• Good communication skills, especially dealing with staff and residents face to face.

Tick most but not all the boxes?

The best candidate rarely does! If you are excited by this role, share our values and feel you have most of what we are looking for, go ahead and apply - you could be exactly who we need.

Our benefits are great too, they include:

• 28 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays and one wellbeing day each year.
• The opportunity to buy or sell up to five days annual leave per holiday year.
• A defined contribution pension scheme and life assurance.
• A comprehensive range of discounts and wellbeing resources through our benefits platform.