We are recruiting for a Director of Maintenance to lead maintenance operations across a national property portfolio within a housing property management environment. This role will focus on delivering planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring compliance, managing budgets and leading teams across multiple sites.
Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 (depending on experience)
Location: London (UK-wide portfolio)
Key Responsibilities
- Set and implement maintenance strategy across all sites, aligned to business objectives and asset lifecycle planning.
- Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive works across the portfolio.
- Ensure service delivery meets SLAs and KPIs.
- Manage contractors, suppliers and internal maintenance teams.
- Ensure compliance with UK regulations including gas, electrical and fire safety requirements.
- Lead audits and ensure adherence to health and safety standards.
- Manage risk relating to building systems and maintenance operations.
- Manage multi-million-pound maintenance budgets, including forecasting and cost control.
- Approve major repairs and capital expenditure projects.
- Lead regional managers, engineers and support staff, setting performance targets and supporting development.
- Oversee asset registers and maintenance systems (CAFM).
- Plan refurbishment, upgrades and long-term asset replacement programmes.
- Use data and reporting to support decision-making and improve asset performance.
Skills and Experience
- Significant experience within facilities management or maintenance at a senior level.
- Experience managing large, multi-site property portfolios.
- Strong knowledge of building systems including HVAC, M&E and compliance requirements.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets and delivering cost control.
- Degree in engineering, building services or similar (preferred).
- Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CIBSE, IMechE) desirable.
- Health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing contractors and supply chains.
- Ability to use data and systems to support performance and decision-making.