District Estates Maintenance Manager

Why Work for us: Employee benefits

Are you looking to develop an interesting and rewarding career where you get to make a significant difference to local communities? Southampton City Council are looking for an experienced individual to join us as a District Estates Maintenance Manager – Voids.

Reporting to the Housing Operations Service Lead you will be directly responsible for a team of 4 managers and 45 trade staff leading on turning around approximately 2,000 empty Council homes annually.

As a Senior Manager, you will be overseeing the development, procurement and delivery of a range of planned maintenance schemes and programmes of works, co-ordinating significant budgets of circa £6m per annum. Projects will typically include voids, repairs, refurbishments of buy back properties, fire and flood damage.

In order to succeed within the role, you will have significant experience within an operational property maintenance service. You will also have strong relevant experience in overseeing the procurement and management of multiple construction works, desirably within a housing refurbishment or social housing environment. This should include experience of directly managing commercial and operational teams, along with resource and budget management experience from a performance management perspective.

Additional working knowledge and experience of CDM and Health and Safety policies are essential for this role, along with being educated in a relevant construction qualification such as HND/HNC/CIOB.

In addition to your technical experience you will hold high levels of commercial acumen, excellent interpersonal skills, along with the ability to maximise business opportunities.

About Us

We are committed to being a Child and Resident Friendly City where people are proud to live and work and where you can make a significant difference to our local communities. We want Southampton to be a modern city, amongst the best places to grow up, live and work in and we are committed to tackling inequality and to creating a city that is greener, fairer and healthier.

About Southampton

• Our city is easy to travel around on foot, bike and public transport
• We have a fantastic range of retail outlets, restaurants, bars, cinemas and theatres.
• Our City has award-winning parks and open spaces with the New Forest National   Park and beautiful beaches on our doorstep
• We have one of the major ports in the UK operating 364 days a year.

Why work for us?

You can be confident of a rewarding career, with a competitive salary, job security and a wide range of employee benefits including generous annual leave and career progression opportunities in return for your dedication to bettering the lives of Southampton’s residents.

We’ll provide

• Access to the Hampshire Local Government Pension Scheme
• Interest free travel loans and discounts.
• Employee Support Services.
• Employer pension contributions
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave

You will work 37-hour week. Southampton City Council operates a Flexible working scheme in addition to your basic entitlement of 28 days annual leave per year (not including bank holidays). This leave increases to 31 days after you have completed 5 years of continuous service. Other employee benefits range from childcare vouchers and discounted travel to money off at selected restaurants, shops and salons.

Southampton is a city of opportunity. Our staff are instrumental in delivering our strategies and maintaining effective relationships with our partners in the city. We are therefore searching for people who can help deliver the vision for the entire city, ensuring we leave a positive legacy for future generations.  If you feel this is you, apply today.

Additional information

• Please note the salary quoted is based on full time hours (37 hours per week)
• This is a permanent position. 
• Please note that appointments are usually made at the bottom of the salary scale.
• This post requires a DBS check.

For any posts that require a DBS check, if you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.

How to apply

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