Repairs Supervisor

United Living; Loughton; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure and property services company in the UK is seeking a repairs supervisor to oversee maintenance operations and manage a team. This role involves ensuring compliance with safety standards, coordinating projects, and liaising with clients and residents to maintain high-quality service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience dealing with multi trade operatives and sub-contractors.
• Experience within the housing sector preferred.
• Valid driving license.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing day-to-day activities for the specific contract area.
• Managing a team of 10+ PAYE operatives.
• Conducting post-inspections and attending client meetings.

Skills

Strong IT knowledge

Asbestos awareness

Team management

Job description

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Tasks

As a repairs supervisor, you will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day activities for the specific contract area. Your role involves ensuring that work progresses according to plans, schedules, and safety standards. Additionally, you will manage a team of 10+ PAYE operatives, covering reactive maintenance repairs. Your tasks will include:

- Assisting with Health and Safety standards and practice

- Overseeing complex works and projects via site visits and correspondence with client counterparts

- Supporting schedulers to coordinate any large projects

- Providing Quotes to clients utilising Schedule of Rate

- Liaising with residents

- Overseeing complaint work

- Attending client meetings on a regular basis to provide updates on works

- Conducting post-inspections

- Working alongside planners to prioritise jobs

Your ability to motivate the team to ensure work completion is crucial, and you will play a key role in maintaining efficiency, quality, and safety on the contract.

Requirements

• Strong IT knowledge
• Asbestos awareness certificate
• In date DBS check
• Must have experience of dealing with multi trade operatives and sub-contractors
• Experience within the housing sector preferred
• Valid driving license