Repairs Planner

Repairs Planner / Scheduler
- Social Housing Repairs & Maintenance

Full-Time, temporary (3 months with the potential to extend)

Based in Kingston-upon-Thames

£13.46 per hour, 40 hour week

Are you an experienced Planner and Customer Service Provider? If so, we may be able to help you!

Here at Howells, we are working with a leading, UK contractor to find an experienced and proactive Repairs Planner / Scheduler to join their team, working on repairs and maintenance within social housing. This roles is a full time, ongoing temporary position (around 3 months with the potential to extend), based in Kingston-upon-Thames.

For this role, you must have experience as a Planner / Scheduler working on a Social Housing contract, either for a main contractor or RSL (Social Landlord), along with excellent time management and communication skills. You will also have experience of using a repairs and maintenance software.

• Managing calls on system
• Managing operatives diaries
• General administration
• Planning repairs and maintenance requests to the relevant operative
• Ensure trade skill sets and location parameters are working effectively
• Liaising with operatives, tenants and the Client
• Document Control
  - Ensure worksheets are received and checked
• Work towards individual and client KPI's
• Deal with council and private housing contracts, planning and scheduling routine, essential and emergency property maintenance works
• Tracking and monitoring to completion
• Liaison with in-house and 3rd party engineers and tradesmen and council operatives to plan appointments, materials and logistics and reorganising of schedules
• Organisation of external supply companies
• Ensuring all trades are readied and present on-site and works completed in-line with committed client completion dates
• Be able to work in a fast paced demanding role with constant collaboration with key stakeholders, clients, councils, housing agents, suppliers and trades
  
  You will be working for a modern, forward thinking business; that believes the strengths, skills and personalities of their people are the key to the groups success.