Housing à Grande-Bretagne

Repairs and Maintenance Manager
Spennymoor, County Durham
Circa £60,000 per annum dependent upon skills and experience + Local Govt. Pension Scheme + other competitive benefits

Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time (37 Hours per week)

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for delivering high-quality housing services? Do you thrive on leading teams, driving performance, and making a real difference to communities?

We have an excellent opportunity for a Repairs & Maintenance Manager to lead our responsive repairs and voids service, ensuring it is delivered efficiently, fully compliant, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring our homes are safe, well-maintained, and ready for new tenants, while delivering excellent customer service and value for money.

We are an award-winning not for profit housing association that currently owns nearly 9,000 homes across County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our places. We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, sustainable and adaptable, while meeting tenants’ current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into work and training and increase their financial confidence and stability.

Our Plan A sets out our strategy for a realistic path to success. It's flexible. It can cope with the things we do not yet know. Importantly it’s cohesive, ensuring we are working together with our teams, partners, tenants and residents to maximise the impact we can make by improving lives through the provision of sustainable homes and places.

At a time when Awaab’s law places much needed focus on prioritising and acting with urgency to meet specific customer needs, our Repairs and Maintenance Manager will oversee a skilled team of surveyors and inspectors, leading by example to foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and high performance.

Your ability to manage complex budgets and contracts (circa £9m annually), while maintaining strong financial control and achieving value for money, will be central to your success. You will use your insight and experience to design and deliver innovative approaches to service delivery, ensuring that building maintenance and repairs are carried out to the highest standard while meeting the needs of customers.

Putting our tenants at the heart of all you do comes naturally. You will be a confident leader with excellent people management skills and the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop multi-disciplinary teams.

You will combine a strong technical background in building maintenance with a proven track record in strategic planning, business growth, and performance management. By working closely with colleagues, contractors, and partners, you will ensure that services not only meet regulatory requirements but also deliver real improvements for our customers and communities.

With a Degree in Surveying, Building Studies, or Construction (or HNC/HND with a willingness to undertake further funded study), you will be able to demonstrate your success in delivering service improvements and managing change.

In return, we offer a comprehensive package of rewards and opportunities designed to recognise your contribution and support your ongoing development.

• An engaging office environment that encourages collaboration, creativity, and growth
• A competitive salary fairly evaluated under a nationally recognised job evaluation scheme
• Additional car allowance payment of £1,850 per annum
• Up to 31.5 days annual leave per year
• Flexitime and associated option to take additional leave days for credited hours up to an agreed maximum
• Life assurance (3 x times salary) for LGPS members
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) membership with option for additional voluntary contributions

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of repairs and maintenance services here at Livin. If you are passionate about driving service excellence, have the technical expertise and commercial insight to deliver outstanding results, and thrive in a leadership role where people are at the heart of success, we want to hear from you.