Repairs Planner

A housing association is currently looking for a number Repairs Planners for about 6 months on a temporary basis.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver administrative support to the Regional Leads and Head of Repairs Delivery in budget monitoring, managing necessary databases and systems.
• Collaborate with our Repair Inspectors and contractors to schedule and coordinate post and audit inspections.
• Provide your manager and team important and timely business information on region specific repair spend.
• Assist in preparing and managing budgets for repair operations, ensuring cost effective practices and VFM.
• Monitor and manage repair escalations for your area, ensuring jeopardy cases as appropriate and prioritising cases for inspection.
• Support your team to put in place creative and new ways to address repairs overspend and alert the team to any areas of concern.
• Undertake specific repairs research and projects on behalf of the team.
• Feedback to managers on any issues identified as part of monitoring of repair related tasks and flag any issues for escalation as part of performance monitoring.
• Analyse repair cases and assess priorities and use strong problem solving skills to identify potential issues and propose practical solutions.
• Support the Inspectors, Officers and Senior Managers with repair strategies to meet targets. Assist managers with exporting necessary repairs reporting information from internal systems to present a comprehensive overview of team performance.
• Maintain and strengthen good working relationships with other departments across Operations and throughout.
• Work with all stakeholders and contractors to ensure all KPI’s are met and processes and procedure are adhered to.
• Raise the profile of performance across the directorate, supporting colleagues to engage with, and understand repair process.

PAYE £20.84, Umbrella £27.56.

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience in property maintenance, repair planning or similar role.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in contract regulations.
• Experience of contractor management.
• Good understanding of the relevant legislation, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Effective IT skills including basic/intermediate MS Office skills.

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