At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage repair requests, coordinate inspections, and track progress in a busy housing environment.
- Company: Join a dedicated housing team in Stockport with a focus on repairs.
- Benefits: Opportunity for long-term career growth and potential permanent position.
- Other info: Ideal for those looking to gain experience in housing repairs and administration.
- Why this job: Be part of a vital team ensuring homes are safe and well-maintained.
- Qualifications: Organised, proactive, and confident in managing multiple tasks and deadlines.
We are currently recruiting for a Repairs Planner to join a Stockport-based housing team on an initial 12-week temporary contract. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and proactive individual looking to build a long-term career within a housing repairs environment.
You will manage incoming repair requests, arrange inspections and works, monitor progress and ensure outstanding actions are followed up within required timescales. This is a busy, process-driven role suited to someone who is highly organised, proactive and confident managing multiple repairs, cases and deadlines.
Key Responsibilities of a Repairs Planner:
- Manage the repairs inbox and coordinate incoming repair requests.
- Raise repair jobs and schedule inspections and appointments.
- Coordinate with inspectors, contractors, residents and internal housing teams.
- Monitor repairs from initial report through to completion.
- Support the team in ensuring cases are managed in line with Awaab’s Law requirements and statutory timescales.
- Track outstanding jobs and proactively chase overdue inspections, works and actions.
- Maintain accurate records and update systems to ensure cases are progressed and closed correctly.
- Identify delays or issues within the repairs process and escalate where appropriate.
- Ensure repairs are managed in line with relevant processes, service standards and statutory timescales.
- Provide general administrative and coordination support to the housing repairs team.
About You:
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Confident managing a busy workload and multiple deadlines.
- Proactive in monitoring cases and following up outstanding actions.
- Comfortable using databases, email inboxes and administrative systems.
- A clear and confident communicator.
- Reliable and able to work consistently from the office.
- Experienced in administration, repairs coordination, housing or a similar process-driven environment.
- Ideally experienced within a local authority or social housing environment, although this is not essential.
- Willing to learn about damp and mould, Awaab’s Law and housing repairs processes.
Contract & Working Hours:
- Initial 12-week temporary contract.
- Location: Stockport Office Based.
If you are an organised administrator with strong coordination skills and are looking for an opportunity that could lead to a permanent position within a housing repairs team, we would be keen to hear from you.
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