Area Repairs Manager

Area Repairs Manager

Salary:������ �59,000

Location: � Hybrid (with one day a week in the office)

The role

Reporting to the�Property Director, you will be required to effectively oversee contracts for responsive repairs and void works, ensuring that services delivered are customer focussed and delivered to agreed budgets.

• Effectively manage and develop the team, ensuring that services are delivered in a customer focussed way including engaging with customers about our services.


• Ensure responsive repair contracts are meeting contractual KPIs and poor performance is challenged and addressed.


• Develop and set the regional responsive repairs and voids budgets and deliver the service within agreed budgets.


• Plan and oversee procurement of long-term contracts, instructing external expertise as required.


• Write and review policies and procedures for planned, responsive and void management services.


• Effectively manage void properties to ensure repair works are planned and undertaken swiftly and the properties are re-let.

About you

The successful candidate will have:

• Excellent people management skills with proven experience of managing a team.


• Experience of overseeing contracts in a repairs or planned maintenance environment.


• Experience in surveying and diagnosing complex building defects.


• Excellent IT skills with the ability to analyse data and communicate findings.


• Knowledge and experience of the social housing sector specifically property services.