Metropolitan Thames Valley
Supervisor
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£45,124 - £47,499 p/a
Permanent - Full Time
Closing date - 21 August 2026
The Role
Do you have experience managing a working at height team and are looking to take the next step in your career? Metworks have an exciting opportunity to join our team looking after our working at height and project team. The team includes roofers, builder multis and groundworkers and therefore experience of managing a team is essential, alongside strong proven working at height technical experience. To be considered for the role you should have experience in site management and safety planning, including but not limited to working with a Health and Safety team to implement and monitoring RAMS. The ideal candidate should have experience with working at height equipment such as harnesses, scaffolding and ladders.
The role is based at our Beeston office near Nottingham but will be a mixture of out on site and in the office so it is perfect for someone looking for a mixture of in and out of office working. Sounds interesting? Apply now!!
Position Overview
We are seeking a technically minded individual to join our team as a working at height supervisor. In this role, you will step into a leadership position where you can utilise your expertise to oversee and guide a team of dedicated tradespeople. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your leadership skills.
Because our customers are at the centre of everything we do, you should be people-centric and be able to demonstrate the ability to lead your team to deliver right first-time repairs with excellent customer service, liaising with our dedicated planning and customer service staff as well as maintaining relationships with surveying staff and repairs officers to help us all remain compliant.
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What You'll Need To Succeed
- A trade/construction qualification and a good knowledge of repairs and maintenance in a social housing environment, to deliver a quality repairs service in a partnership working environment.
- A passion for delivering right first-time repairs.
- A flexible approach to work patterns & workloads.
- Patience: The ability to remain composed and patient during challenging situations.
- Experience in using multiple business IT applications databases such as Microsoft Office.
- Commercial awareness to deliver value for money business solutions.
- A team working approach in a diverse and complex environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and supervise a team of tradespeople, ensuring quality workmanship and productivity.
- Collaborate with supervisors, planners and managers to plan and deliver effective repairs.
- Experience and ability to manage Health and Safety in a social housing repairs environment.
- High level of technical knowledge and diagnosis skills in a housing maintenance environment.
- Able to manage problems and identify solutions.
- Ensure repairs are completed on time and within key performance indicators.
- Handle administrative tasks related to the team.
- Able to stay calm under pressure.
- Able to plan work for multiple trade operatives minimising down time.
- Experience in complaints and collating information from all stakeholders.
- Take part in an on-call rota (current rotation of 1 in 7, subject to change).
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Qualifications
- Proven experience as a qualified/skilled tradesperson ideally in roofing/working at height.
- SMSTS, Desirable not essential.
- An understanding of CDM regulations.
- PASMA.
- TETRA.
- IPAF.
- IOSH Managing Safely.
- CISRS.
- Manual Driving Licence.
What You Need To Do Now
We encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, and give a short statement (max 250 words) that demonstrate why you believe you are the right candidate for the role.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers, this role requires a Basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.
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Department: Property
Last updated: July 24, 2026
Job ref: NTX1221580
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