Job Introduction
Notting Hill Genesis is seeking a Repairs Planner to join our dedicated team. This role is key to coordinating and managing repair and maintenance activities, ensuring high standards and efficiency across our portfolio of homes.
Main Responsibility
As a Repairs Planner, you will be pivotal in coordinating and streamlining repair activities. You will support your team in managing budgets effectively, ensuring all repair and maintenance work is completed efficiently and to the highest standard. Your exceptional organizational skills and strong communication abilities will be essential in handling a high volume of tasks and coordinating with contractors and suppliers to deliver a consistently high-quality repairs service. Your role will also involve managing repair escalations, undertaking specific research projects, and providing timely business information to support decision-making.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Mandatory
- Proven experience in property maintenance, repair planning, or a similar role.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in contract regulations and contractor management.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
- Customer-focused mindset with effective IT skills, including basic/intermediate MS Office skills.
Benefits
In return we offer:
· Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
· Generous pension scheme
· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
· Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
· Health cash plan
· Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
· Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
· Cycle to work scheme
· Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
Selection process
Step 1 If you are interested please send your application now
Step 2 Successful candidates will be selected for an interview
Closing Date: 9 February 2024 at 11:59pm
Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via jobs@nhg.org.uk to discuss your requirements.
About the Company
Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 67,000 homes and employ around 1,500 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://www.nhg.org.uk/about-us/
Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.
Our pledges
We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.
We have under-representation of ethnically diverse colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage ethnically diverse candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.
We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation
To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.
