Responsive Repairs Delivery Lead

We are looking for an experienced Responsive Repairs Delivery Lead to join our team! This is a key role within the organisation, leading and delivering a safe, efficient, and high-quality responsive repairs service, ensuring teams have the skills and resources to meet objectives and maintain high customer satisfaction. You'll bring a strong track record in service improvement, delivery and people management.

This role is predominantly office / site based.

We are a social housing landlord and one of the largest housing providers in the region with over 22,000 social and affordable homes, mainly in the Bradford district. We employ a talented workforce of nearly 1,000 people.

In 2024 we launched our five-year Corporate Strategy, which runs to 2029. Our purpose is to provide high quality homes, services, and support to our customers, so we've worked with colleagues and customers to find out what's important to them. Our customers sit at the heart of what we do, and our colleagues are the people who'll help us achieve our vision, which is to create the best customer experience to improve everyday lives.

• Lead the delivery of responsive repairs service (including out of hours service) ensuring that the service is efficient, effective and safe and the team have the right skills and resources to achieve objectives.
• Positively lead and rigorously manage office and field based colleagues taking responsibility for delivery of high quality, efficient response maintenance services, driving performance to achieve a high-quality value for money service with high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Putting the customer at forefront of what we do by learning from their feedback, prioritising service improvements and resolving and reducing customer complaints.
• Maintain momentum towards an exciting long-term vision, while fixing the basics
• Lead and support service transformation and delivery of the three-year service improvement plan.
• Management and utilisation of data systems to monitor, report and drive performance against response maintenance KPI's.
• Identify, plan, tender, manage and execute improvement plans, including preparation of reports and analysis.
• Prepare and deliver performance reports to Teams and Senior Managers.
• Undertake project work, researching best practice and developing new initiatives to drive and deliver the viability of the business.
• Provide strong motivational leadership consistently delivering high performance levels and maintaining high levels of colleague engagement.
• Develop and manage positive and constructive relationships with external stakeholders and customer groups.

• Strong track record for delivering an excellent customer experience in relation to responsive maintenanceservices.
• Experience of managing and reporting on performance measures and budgets.
• Ability to lead a team in a high challenge environment through continuous improvement and achieve high levels of colleague engagement
• A relevant management qualificationi.e.ILM Level 3, HNC, CMI and an appropriate construction background and SMSTS
  - Construction Site Managers Safety Certificate, or other relevant Health and Safety Certificate.
• An understanding and awareness of the housing and social needs of a multicultural society and of the sensitive complex issues that mayarise.
• A knowledge of housing policy, practice and current legislation and how these impact the delivery of a quality housing management service.
• A full driving license is required as you will be required to travel to sites and offices around the district.
• Right to Work in the UK
  - Visa sponsorship is not available.
• A basic DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check will be required for the successful candidate as part of the pre-employment process
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