Repairs & Voids Inspector

Position: Repairs & Voids Inspector
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join bpha's In House Maintenance Service, who make a difference to our customer's lives everyday by delivering a high-quality repairs service designed around them.

We operate across Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas, and we utilise the latest technology to ensure that we not only deliver a great experience for our customers, but for our colleagues as well.

We are looking for a Repairs and Voids Inspector to join our newly formed Small Works Team, and to be responsible for the inspection, specification, and ordering of repairs identified requiring technical knowledge to ensure a long-lasting repair solution is provided.

The inspections you complete should consider the impact of the repairs required on our customers experience of living within their home, and you are expected to proactively communicate with customers, ensuring they are aware of the next steps following your inspection and what to expect.

What you will be doing:

Responsible for contributing to the IHMS's strong culture of health, safety, environment, and quality that can be evidenced, stands up to scrutiny and audit
Carrying out a range of different inspections, ensuring that the repairs service delivered achieves good quality value for money repairs.
Take responsibility for positively contributing to a highly motivated, empowered, and engaged team that work together to contribute towards delivering bpha's vision and mission
To ensure a customer-centric service is always delivered. Be responsible for contributing to a team who have a customer centric, right first-time culture.
Responsible for maintaining professional supplier relationships in conjunction with the IHMS management teams and Health & Safety.
Responsible for ensuring you and your team's adherence and compliance to bpha standing orders, financial regulations, policies, and procedures  

We'd love to meet someone with:

In depth knowledge and understanding of building construction, maintenance and legislation governing social housing providers.
Good experience driving contract performance.

Experience of fault diagnosis and works specification
Knowledge of schedule of rates and experience in using them to select the most appropriate codes Knowledge of health and safety legislation related to construction and/or landlord responsibilities
Building construction qualification to minimum ONC/OND or NVQ Level 3
Proven experience of delivering customer service excellence
Full UK Driving Licence  

Amongst what we offer you is:

A competitive salary
28 days holiday PLUS Bank Holidays (Rising with services to 33 days plus bank hols)
A generous contributory pension scheme
Private health care
Free life assurance
Enhanced family leave
Access to an extensive suite of well-being services and tools including a digital gym
Opportunities for learning and development
Discounted gym membership
Retail discount scheme  

Please note the successful candidate will need to complete a basic DBS application.

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible