Supervisor

JR United Kingdom; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trades and construction company in Bracknell is seeking a qualified Supervisor to lead a team of skilled tradespeople. In this role, you will ensure high-quality repairs and customer satisfaction, requiring a trade qualification and strong leadership skills. Ideal candidates will have experience in social housing maintenance and a drive for excellence. Benefits include flexible working arrangements and comprehensive support for professional development.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension with matched contributions

Health cash plan scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of repairs and maintenance in a social housing environment.
• Ability to manage Health and Safety in a social housing repairs environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and supervise a team of tradespeople.
• Collaborate with supervisors and managers to plan repairs.
• Ensure repairs are completed on time within KPIs.

Skills

Trade/construction qualification

Experience in leadership

Patience

Commercial awareness

Team working approach

Education

Proven experience as a qualified tradesperson

SMSTS (Desirable)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Are you a highly skilled and experienced tradesperson looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for leadership and a track record of excellence in your trade? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled tradesperson to join our team as a Supervisor. In this role, you will step into a leadership position where you can utilise your expertise to oversee and guide a team of dedicated tradespeople. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills.

Because our customers are at the centre of everything we do, you should be people-centric and be able to demonstrate the ability to lead your team to deliver right first-time repairs with excellent customer service, liaising with our dedicated planning and customer service staff as well as maintaining relationships with surveying staff and repairs officers to help us all remain compliant.

What you'll need to succeed:

• A trade/construction qualification and a good knowledge of repairs and maintenance in a social housing environment, to deliver a quality repairs service in a partnership working environment.
• A flexible approach to work patterns & workloads
• Patience: The ability to remain composed and patient during challenging situations
• Experience in using multiple business IT applications databases, Microsoft office.
• Commercial awareness to deliver value for money business solutions.
• A team working approach in a diverse and complex environment

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and supervise a team of tradespeople, ensuring quality workmanship and productivity.
• Collaborate with supervisors & managers to plan and deliver effective repairs.
• Experience and ability to manage Health and Safety in a social housing repairs environment.
• High level of technical knowledge and diagnosis skills in a housing maintenance environment
• Able to manage problems and identify solutions.
• Ensure repairs are completed on time and within Key performance indicators.
• Handle administrative tasks related to the team,
• Able to stay calm under pressure
• Able to plan work for multiple trade operatives minimising down time
• Experience in complaints and collating information from all stake holders, to include CRM management

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a qualified/skilled tradesperson in e.g., carpentry, plumbing, gen-building, roofing, etc.
• SMSTS, Desirable not essential
• Driving Licence

What you need to do now

We encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if its the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, and give a short statement (max 250 words) that demonstrate why you believe you are the right candidate for the role.

Supervisor - Bracknell

£48,382 - £50,929

Are you a highly skilled and experienced tradesperson looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for leadership and a track record of excellence in your trade? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled tradesperson to join our team as a Supervisor. In this role, you will step into a leadership position where you can utilise your expertise to oversee and guide a team of dedicated tradespeople. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills.

Because our customers are at the centre of everything we do, you should be people-centric and be able to demonstrate the ability to lead your team to deliver right first-time repairs with excellent customer service, liaising with our dedicated planning and customer service staff as well as maintaining relationships with surveying staff and repairs officers to help us all remain compliant.

What you'll need to succeed:

• A trade/construction qualification and a good knowledge of repairs and maintenance in a social housing environment, to deliver a quality repairs service in a partnership working environment.
• A passion for delivering right first-time repairs.
• A flexible approach to work patterns & workloads
• Patience: The ability to remain composed and patient during challenging situations
• Experience in using multiple business IT applications databases, Microsoft office.
• Commercial awareness to deliver value for money business solutions.
• A team working approach in a diverse and complex environment

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and supervise a team of tradespeople, ensuring quality workmanship and productivity.
• Collaborate with supervisors & managers to plan and deliver effective repairs.
• Experience and ability to manage Health and Safety in a social housing repairs environment.
• High level of technical knowledge and diagnosis skills in a housing maintenance environment
• Able to manage problems and identify solutions.
• Ensure repairs are completed on time and within Key performance indicators.
• Handle administrative tasks related to the team,
• Able to stay calm under pressure
• Able to plan work for multiple trade operatives minimising down time
• Experience in complaints and collating information from all stake holders, to include CRM management

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a qualified/skilled tradesperson in e.g., carpentry, plumbing, gen-building, roofing, etc.
• SMSTS, Desirable not essential
• Driving Licence

What you need to do now

We encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if its the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, and give a short statement (max 250 words) that demonstrate why you believe you are the right candidate for the role.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers, this role requires a Basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Whats in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional Beliefs day once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively Serving people better every day to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and others wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what were doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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