Repairs Planner

Repairs Planner

Location: Tower Hamlets / White Chapel

Salary: £17.97ph Umbrella Pay

Looking to hire ASAP / Available Positions: 1

We are recruiting the above position (1x posts)

Description of role: Responsible for responding to resident repair requests by call and email, diagnosing the repair to allocate appointments to the in house and/or subcontracted workforce. Ensure both the customer and the client receives an excellent standard of customer service

Day to Day:

• Answer incoming calls with regards to repairs issues
• Effective use of their in house system to actively schedule available Operatives and Sub-Contractors to jobs.
• Deal with complex repairs, demanding customers and those who have suffered service failure, to contain issues and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Handling calls and emails from the client to log issues, deploy Operatives and monitor completion of the work, providing updates at regular intervals.
• Ensure that the system is updated in a timely manner so that the client and the Operations are in receipt of the most up to date information.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Operatives, clients, customers (internal and external) and suppliers
• Understanding and diagnosing repair requests. Take ownership and responsibility for identifying the customer's needs and use appropriate questioning, listening and diagnosis skills to identify the issues and offer appropriate solutions.
• Managing incoming repairs inbox and allocating repairs works appropriately
• Scheduling work for operatives to attend properties and undertake works

Essential Criteria

• Social Housing and Repair and Maintenance background.
• Experience in planning/scheduling jobs using planning system.
• Understanding of the various trades and jobs normally allocated to direct labour staff or subcontractors
• Understanding the importance of reducing Work-in-Progress - Jeopardy planning, Further Works management, applying of extension of times
• Experience of trade job durations
• Experience of health and safety considerations when planning e.g. asbestos
• No hybrid working, must be able to work from amin office located in Kent
• Good level of written English e.g. ability to rite responses to complaints
• Good computer skills
• Good communication skills e.g. ability to communicate with different stakeholders at different levels to conclude / close jobs
• Passionate about service delivery and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

• Generous holiday scheme with the option to buy a further 5 days
• family friend policies and awork/life approach
• Mentoring programmes and continuous learning support
• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual bonus scheme
• Recognition scheme and long service award

If you have experience as a Repairs Planner / scheduler, please apply today with your CV or contact Leah Seber at Build recruitment to discuss further information.

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