Supervisor

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.
• 23 days holiday.
• Company sick pay scheme.
• Pension scheme.
• Bupa healthcare scheme after completion of probationary period.

To find out more about this role contact Stephen Blaymires at Blaymires Recruitment on 07498 987 851 or email: sb@blaymiresrecruitment.co.uk