Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

Basic salary £40k to £42k, dependent upon experience, plus additional regular overtime and call out rota payments.

Van, Fuel card, uniform, IT equipment and test equipment will be provided.

Location- Havant and surrounding areas

Additional benefits include 23 days holiday + Bank holidays, pension scheme, and health care cover.

In this role you will supervise trade's operatives, ensuring that the right work is done at the right time to the agreed quality standards. This will include leading, co-ordinating, motivating and training team members to meet the required performance standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that repairs are undertaken in a structured and cost-effective manner, with efficient use of the team and in compliance with Health & Safety policies and statutory legislation.
• Raising quotes and estimates for the cost and time to undertake repairs.
• Daily supervision of the trade's team, including being responsible for communicating information via toolbox talks; undertaking absence return to works and monitoring the health, safety and welfare of your team; assisting with their training and development via coaching, 1:1s, performance management meetings etc
• Providing technical advice, support and guidance to operatives and escalating issues when necessary.
• Supporting operatives when they are on the evening/weekend call-out rota through the escalation process.
• Responsibility for the safety and welfare of employees and sub-contractors on site, including ensuring safe working practices & procedures are fully implemented and documented.
• Undertaking pre-work inspections and quality assessments, as well as providing instructions to rectify any snagging, defects and/or uncompleted works.
• Liaising with tenants regarding scope of service provision and to resolve issues/manage expectations.
• Liaising with the Clients and CDM Co-ordinator to provide works updates and resolve issues.
• Collecting and presenting data requests and implementing and driving actions for improvement gained from data analysis.

Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Hold a full driving licence with no more than 3 points.
• Previous experience of supervising trade teams in social housing maintenance, or a trades person confident in making the move upwards to supervision.
• Good technical knowledge regarding all aspects of building maintenance, in particular new bathroom fitting and kitchen design & installation.
• SMSTS/SSSTS qualified, with a good understanding of English language.
• Strong IT skills. Able to use PDAs and good practical experience of using MS Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Good Commercial awareness and understanding of the impact of costs
• Awareness of CDM regulations and H&S Training
• Strong decision-making/problem solving skills, together with excellent organisational and communication skills
• Self motivated