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Supervisor
Social Housing Maintenance & Repairs
Salary up to £42,000 + Van + 23 Days Holiday + Pension + Sick Pay
Portsmouth
Blaymires Recruitment is working with a leading reactive and planned maintenance contractor based near Portsmouth who is looking to recruit a Supervisor.
The company provides social housing repairs and maintenance services as well as planned maintenance projects for social housing clients in the area surrounding Portsmouth.
They are looking for a Supervisor who has the ability to oversee the day to day management of a team of trade operatives to ensure that the right repair is undertaken first time within the specified timescales.
The ideal candidate would be from a trade background with experience of dealing with direct employees and dealing with employee performance and management. You will have strong communication and IT skills.
The working hours are 8:00am - 5:00pm (60-minute lunch) and as part of the role you will also be expected to take part in the escalation rota.
Accountabilities
- Ensuring that repairs are undertaken in an efficient and cost effective manner, enabling efficient use of the team and in compliance with Health & Safety policies and statutory legislation.
- Responsibility for the safety and welfare of direct labour and sub-contractors on site, including ensuring safe working practices & procedures are fully implemented and documented.
- Daily team management and assisting with training and development of your team via tool box talks, coaching etc.
- Undertaking pre-work inspections as and when required.
- Providing technical advice, support and guidance to operatives and escalating issues when necessary.
- Undertaking quality assessments and 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.
- Liaison with the Clients and CDM Co-ordinator to provide works updates and resolve issues.
Skills Required
- Trade background.
- Awareness of CDM regulations and H&S Training.
- SSSTS desirable although, not essential.
- Good technical knowledge.
- Strong decision-making/problem solving skills.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to implement fully company policies and processes.
- Previous supervisory experience.
- Excel/Outlook skills - ability to extract data and use it.
- Good commercial awareness and understanding of the impact of costs.
- Clean driving licence.
On Offer
- Salary £42,000 + Van with fuel card.
- Bupa healthcare scheme after completion of probationary period.
- Holidays - 31 days (Inc. bank Hols), which increase with service
- Holiday Purchase scheme (up to additional 3 days per year)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company pension Scheme
- Pension Rewards Portal
- Discounted gym membership
- Christmas Savings Club
- Company funded annual Family Summer Fun Day & Christmas Party
- Access to Well-being Scheme
- Free Coffee/Tea
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Access to lighthouse charity assistance programme
To find out more about this role contact Stephen Blaymires at Blaymires Recruitment Ltd
