Location: On site / Cardiff, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Housing | Housing Association
AnnualFixed salary:£ 48676.00
We're looking for a Maintenance Manager to lead our in-house repairs team and help deliver high-quality, safe and efficient maintenance services across all our homes. This is a key role within our Property Services Team. You'll be responsible for managing our responsive repairs, voids service, planned and cyclical maintenance programmes, fleet operations, and supplier relationships — ensuring we consistently provide great service and value for money for our tenants. You'll use data, customer insight and strong leadership to drive performance, productivity and continuous improvement.
What you’ll do…
Taff are committed to providing good quality, affordable, safe homes and this role is key to achieving that. You will lead and develop a high-performing, customer-focused responsive repairs and voids service, ensuring the delivery of safe, efficient and compliant repairs that meet the needs of our tenants and align with organisational priorities. You will have overall responsibility for managing the internal repairs operations, including responsive repairs, voids, planned and cyclical maintenance programmes and fleet management. Using performance data and customer insight, you will drive productivity, service improvement and value for money, ensuring resources are used effectively and operational targets are achieved.
What you'll bring to the role...
- An NVQ Level 3 in a building related qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Experience of managing and delivering high quality repairs services
- Experience of planning and scheduling complex workloads of a small team to create maximum productivity
- Knowledge of the Welsh Housing Quality Standard, including the Housing Health and Safety Rating System HHSRS, and WHQS Addendum
- Excellent knowledge of health and safety and other relevant legislation and regulations associated with the role
- Experience of budget planning and managing budgets effectively to deliver value for money services
- Ability to plan complex workloads in a range of trades effectively.
- Working knowledge of CDM Regulations or willing to work towards
- Full UK driving licence
Other useful information
We welcome any questions in advance of an application, or if there is something that matters to you and we haven't covered in the job pack, then please get in touch with Verity Mallett at verity.mallet@taffhousing.co.uk
Interview Date: Friday, 23rd October 2026.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the community we serve, and we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
To find out more about Taff and view all our current vacancies, please click here - Jobs - Taff Housing Association.
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The role you are applying for may be exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and therefore subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This may be at the Enhanced level, which means that both spent and unspent convictions could be disclosed. If this applies to you, you will have the opportunity to discuss with us any offences or matter that may be relevant to the post. Any disclosed information will only be considered if relevant to the role you're applying for.
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