Job Introduction
Salary: £43601 per annum plus essential car allowance
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
Location: West Midlands (Pioneer Group, Birmingham / Bushbury, Wolverhampton / Telford)
Closing date: 25th March 2025
Interview date: 3rd April 2025
The Role:
We are looking for a suitably qualified, enthusiastic, motivated and reliable Maintenance Supervisor to join our team. This is a great position for a candidate looking to make an impact in a growing and dynamic organisation.
The main purpose of this position is to supervise a team of operatives and manage the delivery of an excellent repairs service to our clients and customers, balancing finances with performance against KPIs. You will therefore need to exhibit excellent leadership skills as well as a positive attitude, self-motivation, compassion, analytical expertise, organisational skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to monitor and improve performance.
In addition to having the passion and skills to motivate your team to be the best they can be, you will also have strong technical knowledge in the delivery of quality cost effective repairs in the home and be proficient with IT. Knowledge of health and safety practices and regulations is desirable.
Benefits and rewards:
- Competitive salary
- 223.2 hours annual leave (equivalent to 31 days) plus bank holidays along with the opportunity to buy and sell up to a weeks’ holiday
- Discretionary 3 days holidays at Christmas
- Employer pension contribution of up to 14%
- Professional body membership subscription
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental, adoption leave
- Career break policy
- Café facilities
- Free onsite parking at various locations
- Volunteering days
- Life Assurance at 2 x annual salary
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Long Service Awards
What we are looking for from you?
The successful applicant will need to have a flexible approach to work and a can-do attitude, to delivering the highest levels of customer service.
Given the environment you will be working in, you must be able to demonstrate effective communication, strong team working, organisational, analytical and interpersonal skills while maintaining high levels of confidentiality at all times. You will have sound experience and knowledge of repairs and maintenance and be expected to promote a positive, friendly and understanding attitude towards our customers, clients and colleagues in order to achieve consistency with the high levels of performance, efficiency and quality that is expected of our employees.
About us:
Wrekin Housing Group is part of the Housing Plus Group, a leading provider of homes across a range of tenures to meet identified housing needs and regulated care services to help people live independently.
Our dedicated and diverse colleagues are critical to our success. We value our people and offer them challenging and worthwhile careers, providing a sense of achievement in a vital sector. It is important that we offer opportunities to inspire our people to help us to make a positive difference to our customers’ homes, lives and communities.
The Wrekin Housing Group delivers responsive repairs contracts for external clients, currently including the Pioneer Group, a housing association with approximately 2,500 properties in the Castle Vale area and Bushbury Hill EMB a tenant management organisation with approximately 1000 properties.
Our Inclusive Culture:
The Wrekin Housing Group is an inclusive employer committed to supporting all employees. We know that people perform better when they can be themselves, so creating a culture which is inclusive isn’t only the right thing to do, but is crucial to the success of any organisation. All of our employee networks make a positive contribution to how we are able to support all of our staff and includes networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, heritage and culture and our allies’ network
The Recruitment Process:
In partnership with our trusted external providers we are committed to undertaking care and safeguarding checks with all colleagues. These checks may vary according to the role you have applied for.
We also ask for two references for everyone who is offered a position, one of which must be your current or most recent employer. All roles will also be offered subject to satisfactory right to live and work in the UK checks; if you need any further information on these checks please visit www.gov.uk
How to Apply:
If you would like to join our team, please click the apply now button and you will be transferred to our recruitment page where we would love to receive an application from you.
Once you have reached our recruitment page you will be able to read more about the role and who we are.
When applying we do ask that you check your CV to make sure it is your most up to date copy so that we have all your current information to hand.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our recruitment team who are on hand to help with your application. Please email them on the following email address: Recruitment@wrekin.com
Interviews will be held at our Head Offices in Telford.
