- Pay Rate:
£24.56 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month
- CAMDEN,
NW5 3AP
Interim Repairs Supervisor
Job Ref: RQ592363
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Reporting directly to the Repairs & Operations Team Leader, the post holder will be a senior supervisor with good surveying capabilities who can prove that they have excellent technical knowledge and inter-personal skills including the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, whilst ensuring the responsive repairs are delivered to a high standard of quality
Key Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the management and development of operational trade staff delivering customer focused works in line with business objectives and ensuring effective performance management of the in-house delivery teams.
- To undertake inspections on building repairs/defects related to the building fabric, mechanical, plumbing and electrical repairs to the homes of tenants and residents including collection of information, measurements and tests. Specify, manage and control works and ensure solutions are provided in the form of clear and precise reports.
- Survey potential complaint work to find resolution. Provide accurate reports for case management, reporting on repairs and ensure solutions are provided.
- Conduct pre, during and post inspections of properties ensuring quality from trade staff, issuing remedial snag lists where required and manage delivery within agreed timescales and standards.
- Carry out inspections/surveys of repair instances that have been escalated from the trade staff or planners, producing scope of works to resolve the repair or refer to complex or major works where necessary.
- Provide support and guidance to housing management teams when technically challenging situations occur
- Daily monitor and update all IT work flow systems to ensure previous trades staff work updates are captured and recorded at the earliest opportunity. Checking trades staff have followed the No Access and Follow on Procedures. Identify works to be moved up in priority when required.
- Work closely with the planning team leaders to identify procedural discrepancies of PDA usage.
- Work closely with the repairs teams to coordinate work associated with the properties and recall works to minimise duplication of resource.
- Discharge the Division’s responsibilities under the Camden Safety Risk Management Model and manage all aspects of health and safety and compliance at all times
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a building trade
- Excellent technical knowledge and inter-personal skills including the ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Up to date understanding of health and safety responsibilities of a maintenance service, preferable IOSH Managing Safely
- Extensive experience supervising reactive repairs/void service for social housing
- Extensive experience supervising a direct delivery workforce
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Good IT skills and the use of Excel and MS Office
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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