Repairs Inspector
What you'll do
As a Repairs Inspector, you will provide support to ensure all our repairs adhere to the perfect journey, that our residents need only ask once, and we fix failure fast when exception cases occur. The role goes beyond reporting what has happened and puts our residents at the heart of what we do, maintain and caring for our homes and, collaborating with colleagues to achieve the best outcomes for our residents.
How you'll do it
- Ensuring our contractors and suppliers are providing a consistently high-quality repairs and disrepair service that delivers against the six customer priorities in the customer strategy.
- Delivering well cared for homes and places where residents feel safe and a sense of pride through top class contract management.
- Provide a simple and straightforward diagnosis for reactive repairs, preparing reports in clear, easy to understand terms, along with specifications and recommendations.
- Manage a post inspection regime for, ensuring that works are carried out to a good standard and taking ownership where works are not to a good standard and seen through to successful conclusion.
- Assist with the monitoring of agreed performance indicators across contractors and consultants, and initiate improvements as required.
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.
Essential:
- Experience of working within the repairs sector, carrying out pre, post audit and quality inspections
- Experience in formulating specifications, managing schedules of works and technical diagnosis
- Experience of contractor management
- Experience of writing and disseminating technical reports
- Good understanding of the relevant legislation, statutory and regulatory requirements
Desirable:
- DEA/FRA assessor trained
- Recognised HND technical qualification eg. building surveying or member CIOB
What's in it for you?
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, 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
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 13 November 2024.
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a Basic check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.