A well-established and reputable construction company in Macclesfield is recruiting for a temporary Maintenance Manager to lead a seamless, proactive, and tenant-focused repairs service. You will be ensuring equipment and facilities are well-maintained to minimise downtime. In this Maintenance Manager role you will lead a team, schedule repairs, manage budgets, and ensure safety compliance. You also identify issues and implement improvements for efficiency.
Benefits of the Maintenance Manager role:
1. £55k a year with possible earnings of £60k
2. 6 month contract
3. Benefit of out-of-hours on call payments
Maintenance Manager duties:
4. Lead effective communication and coordination with tenants, colleagues, external contractors and suppliers to ensure repairs are delivered to required targets
5. Oversee internal electrical and gas works, ensuring full legal and regulatory compliance
6. Run day-to-day repair operations, including job creation, scheduling, task dispatch, appointment management, complaints handling and materials procurement
7. Control budgets and maintain accurate ordering and payment processes to support service delivery
8. Drive in-house team performance, ensuring KPIs are consistently met or exceeded
9. Act as a key point of contact for residents, handling queries, complaints and compliments professionally
10. Maintain and review operational risk registers, ensuring controls meet organisational requirements
11. Take responsibility for health and safety compliance, including task-specific risk assessments for relevant activities
12. Coordinate the Out-of-Hours emergency repairs service and oversee any disrepair claims and related works
13. Develop and refine processes, reporting tools and procedures to improve service delivery and support business development
14. Provide strong leadership to staff, ensuring effective recruitment, training, appraisal, wellbeing, and promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion
We would love to speak to anyone who has experience in:
15. Extensive knowledge of Capita, Total mobile & DRS technologies
16. Experience managing a trades team
17. Building Trades qualification City & Guilds Adv / NVQ Level III
18. Professional or management qualification
19. Full UK driving licence
20. Strong communication skills and willingness to find better ways and approaches.
21. Proven skills in managing budgets exceeding £1m and ability demonstrate logical commercial financial acumen
22. Good understanding of health and safety legislations
23. Experience in a social housing background
24. Good knowledge of Capita, TotalMobile and DRS systems.
25. Able to analyse information and produce clear reports.