Assets Officer in Manchester

Reporting into the Asset Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for delivering projects on the Great Places annual investment programme, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the appropriate quality standard. You will be required to liaise directly with the key stakeholders within Great Places as well as contractors and consultants to ensure the successful investment programme delivery.

What you will be doing:

• Delivering projects part of the annual investment programme
• Coordinating with customers and the CLO, for the investment programme delivery
• Managing external contractors and consultants
• Contract management including progress against programme, financial management and KPI’s
• Site inspections monitoring quality and progress
• Analysing data as part of investment programme delivery to ensure appropriate investment decisions
• Chair monthly meetings and draft progress reports
• Provide technical advice in terms of building design and building pathology
• Ensuring compliance with legislative and statutory obligations
• Positive customer engagement
• Represent Great Places at stakeholder meetings

What you will need:

• Experience working in property and construction with a strong technical knowledge
• Ideally, experience of working in a social housing / housing maintenance environment
• Understanding of building contracts, tendering, procurement and commercial management
• Experience of planning and project management and managing programme delivery
• Data analysis skills to prepare reports for senior management team
• A good knowledge of IT and systems
• Build and sustain working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple activities and priorities to a deadline
• Customer focused with a track record of high customer satisfaction
• Strong leadership and track record of people management
• Willingness to take on new responsibilities and a desire to develop new skills

What we need from you:

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity
• An ability to work in uncertainty

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment:

• Pension: DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)
• WPA: Healthcare scheme starts at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available per year (option to increase & add family members)
• Ways of Working: We offer some hybrid and flexible working
• Annual leave: Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holidays
• Reward & Recognition: You Count Rewards are individual rewards for going ‘above & beyond’
• Professional fees: The business pays the cost of one professional role related membership fee for each colleague
• The Market Place: high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
• Wage Stream: You can access savings opportunities and early access to wages
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives: Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver great services, all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.