Planner (Damp & Mould) in Royal Tunbridge Wells

Our Vacancy We're looking for an organised and customer-focused Planner to join our Damp & Mould team. In this vital role, you'll help ensure repairs and maintenance work is scheduled efficiently, supporting our operatives, supervisors and managers to deliver an excellent service to residents. You'll play a key part in coordinating resources, managing appointments, and helping us achieve our performance targets while maintaining a strong focus on customer satisfaction. What You Will Do As a Planner, you'll be responsible for scheduling and coordinating repairs and maintenance works, ensuring the right operatives and contractors are allocated to the right jobs at the right time. You'll manage appointments, monitor work progress, maintain accurate records across multiple systems, and help maximise first-time fixes. Working closely with supervisors, managers, operatives, contractors and clients, you'll ensure works are delivered efficiently, performance targets are achieved, and residents receive a high-quality service. You'll also support complaint resolution, monitor workflows, report trends, and assist in driving continuous service improvement. What You Will Need To be successful in this role, you'll have previous planning or scheduling experience and excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. You'll be confident using Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook and possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal. You'll be a proactive team player who can also work independently, using your problem-solving skills to help keep services running smoothly. Experience within social housing repairs and maintenance would be an advantage but is not essential. This is a full time permanent position, working on site 8am-5pm Monday-Friday in our head office in Tunbridge Wells. Why Choose Us * Annual salary £29,648 * 25 days, increasing to 28 days at 5-years service and 30 days at 10-years service * Up to £3,000 colleague referral fee * Contributory pension scheme with 4% to 10% matched contributions * Life insurance * 24/7 digital GP service and counselling helpline (including face-to-face sessions) * Free annual eye test voucher and contribution towards glasses * Free annual flu jab * Flexible annual benefits (for dental, healthcare, shopping vouchers, technology etc.) * Access to an extensive range of corporate discounts on shopping travel, & days out. * Travel loan Why join us? When you join Town and Country Housing, you’re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered. Please read before applying: * You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. * We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we'd love to hear from you. Click 'Apply Now' to complete our online application process and provide details of your skills, experience, and achievements. We look forward to learning more about what you can bring to Town & Country Housing. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. We will make reasonable adjustments where required throughout the recruitment process. Applicants who require reasonable adjustments to the application process, assessment methods, interview arrangements or other recruitment activities are encouraged to let us know of how we can offer support to enable them to participate fully