Trent & Dove
Repairs Support Manager
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Repairs Support Team Leader
We have an exciting opportunity to lead and develop the Repairs Support Team, ensuring the efficient planning, scheduling, commercial administration, and customer support functions that underpin the delivery of a high-performing responsive repairs and voids service.
Role Overview
The postholder will be responsible for:
- Maximising workforce productivity through effective management of trade diaries, resource planning, and scheduling processes across directly employed operatives and external contractors.
- Providing commercial assurance across all repairs activities, ensuring accurate job costing, robust financial controls, and effective validation of subcontractor and materials expenditure.
- Providing oversight and support to the complaints and customer feedback function, ensuring complaints are investigated and managed within policy timescales, learning is embedded into service delivery, and customer satisfaction is proactively improved through insight-led service enhancements.
- Acting as a key link between operational delivery, commercial management, and customer experience, providing assurance that repairs services are delivered efficiently, cost effectively, and in line with organisational objectives.
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Essential Experience Required
- Relevant professional qualification or equivalent experience in housing, construction, business administration, commercial management, or operational management.
- Experience managing scheduling, planning, or workforce deployment functions within a repairs, maintenance, or construction environment.
- Experience of performance management, service improvement, and KPI reporting.
- Experience managing customer complaints and service recovery.
- Experience working with directly employed labour and subcontractor delivery models.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Excellent analytical and reporting capability.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and operational pressures.
- Full UK Driving Licence with ability to travel between office and operational sites as required.
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