North Yorkshire Councils Housing Standards team are responsible for ensuring the Council’s social housing portfolio of circa 8,400 dwellings is maintained to meet all current statutory, regulatory, and legislative and good practice standards. The team will concentrate on the effective and efficient delivery of a vast array of contractor delivered works including but not limited to – Adaptation works such as the provision of Level access showers, ramps and stairlifts and the retrofit of properties to improve their energy efficiency for instance improving insulation and the installation of ASHPs. The Role The Housing Standards Team are looking for Contract Supervisors to carry out service procurement and contract management of contracts for the Compliance and Capital Contracts team from our Base in Selby. As a Contract Supervisor Mid-level, you will: Take responsibility for own area of work, ensuring behavioural, quality and safety standards are adhered to. Liaise regularly with tenants and a variety of providers, suppliers, and contractors. Maintaining constructive relationships to resolve any issues promptly, escalating when outside of decision-making delegations, acting as the main point of contact for tenants, addressing concerns, resolving disputes, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Seek to always deliver best value ensure that work is carried out safely, to the required specification and that it complies with all current service standards, codes of practice and legislation. Carry out all aspects of day-to-day contract management, ensuring all contracted obligations are effectively met. Chair and minute contract liaison meetings, ensuring actions are fully documented. Manage decent homes standard work. Manage the delivery of contracted out planned improvement and compliance works including retrofit works. Carry out Site inspections to verify the quality of workmanship / service delivery and that safe working practices are maintained on our sites. Interpret technical recommendations and progress works to ensure compliance continuity. Interpret performance data / management information, effectively managing any issues and ensuring any beyond their level of authority are escalated quickly. Review risk assessments and method statements to ensure suitable, sufficient and site specific. Work with external framework providers on standard contracts Contribute to the development of new contracts, incorporating lessons learned from previous contracts. Draft simple specifications, liaising with procurement on these requirements. Post holders must keep up to date with all compliance, health, and safety related guidance and actively engage in the development of the service through continuous improvement initiatives. The role involves spoken and written communication, so a confident use of the English language is required. Post holders must have the ability to travel across the housing stock localities when required. Professional Qualifications Post holders must be working towards / or be willing to train to obtain the Qualifications below - IWFM Level 4 IOSH Managing Safely Prince 2 Fundamentals Other qualifications will be considered, to be discussed during an informal conversation. Additional building or construction related qualifications appropriate to the contracts being managed would be an advantage. What you will bring Knowledge of building regulations and building maintenance or construction Knowledge of procurement and contract management Ability to work in a team. Ability to work under pressure to achieve targets and meet deadlines. Excellent organisational and time management skills Good numeracy skills, ability to interpret data. Excellent standard of oral and written communication skills Ability to use initiative. Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality. What can we offer you? In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier. These include: A local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution Salary sacrifice schemes Employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more! Travel loans Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits. Contact and apply. If you would like to learn more about a role within our new service area, please contact Suzanne Cooley Suzanne.Cooley@northyorks.gov.uk or Charles Ingham Charles.Ingham@northyorks.gov.uk Key dates: Closing date: 8th March 2026.