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Fortus Recruitment Group Limited are a recruitment company that specialise in placing people within the repairs & maintenance industry.
We are currently working on behalf of a Housing association. My client is currently looking for Maintenance Helpdesk Supervisor based in West Byfleet.
You will be working in a call center environment with Administrators and a Scheduler. Your primary responsibility ensuring the right information is being recorded onto the job management systems and issuing the right job information to the Tradesman and to assist with Training, coaching and developing the small team of Administrators.
To succeed in this role, it is essential you have a positive, professional, and versatile attitude always and can remain level-headed, demonstrating leadership for your team and making rational and proactive decisions in a constantly changing and dynamic environment. Our purpose is to deliver “the right work at the right time” for the customer and you will need to use your skills, knowledge, experience, and training to ensure this achieved.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure you understand the end-to-end process of delivering the perfect repair for the customer and the key responsibilities in achieving this for all the roles involved in this process.
- Assist with Training, coaching and developing Administrators to follow the correct process highlighting trends or issues as they occur so that improvements can be made to the process by everyone.
- Use manual measures and demand sheets to understand the performance of the service, identifying trends or issues to feed back to the team.
- Assist with Coaching and training the team to treat customers as they would expect to be treated if they were the customer themselves and be the escalation for tenant issues and queries if the tenant requests escalation themselves.
- Assist with Recruiting and inducting Administrators
- Manage conflict, issues, and poor performance of your team to achieve a positive outcome for the company and contract.
- Support the contract team in ensuring all office staff are acting in a professional manner always providing excellent customer service.
- Highlighting issues and trends to the Supervisors / Contract Manager in relation to quality of workmanship, or task productivity where the expected demonstrated time for the trade and task has been exceeded.
- Ensure the Job Management Systems, and any other system(s) used to deliver the service, are updated in a timely and accurate way.
- Collect and collate client/resident satisfaction feedback and report on trends and improvement ideas.
- Lead improvement projects to improve the service delivery to our clients.
- To be willing and able to participate occasionally in the out-of-hours escalation.
Skills required:
- Be proficient and confident in your use and adaptability to a range of IT systems to include, but not limited to MS Office and our own bespoke job management system.
- Comfortable in a changing and evolving environment demonstrating a level head to the team and enjoy the challenge.
- Possess good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels in a professional manner being able to challenge and be challenged.
- Be able to self-manage and be self-motivated, prioritising work and have a desire to solve problems and eliminate waste.
Knowledge Required:
- Basic knowledge of building maintenance trades and the tasks/activities that can be undertaken be each trade group (Desirable)
- Good geographical understanding of the area including main highways, the best routes, and travel times between different locations.
This role is essential for maintaining efficient operations in social housing, ensuring that repairs are scheduled and completed promptly while maintaining high standards of communication and organization.
Fortus Recruitment Group Limited acts as an Employment Business for the supply of temporary workers and an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Fortus Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.
