🏠 Scheduler – Damp & Mould Team

📍 Location: Birmingham
🕒 Full Time | Permanent
🏢 Wates Property Services (WPS)

 

Be the Engine Behind Safer, Healthier Homes

 

Due to continued growth in our Damp & Mould programme, we're looking for an organised, customer-focused Scheduler to join our team in Birmingham.

This is more than just scheduling appointments. You'll play a vital role in helping vulnerable residents receive the support they need by ensuring inspections, remediation works, and follow-on repairs are planned efficiently and delivered on time.

You'll be at the heart of operations, coordinating damp and mould surveys, repairs, specialist treatments, and maintenance activities, helping us improve homes and create healthier living environments for our residents.

If you're a natural problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys balancing customer service with operational planning, we'd love to hear from you.

 

🌟 What You'll Be Doing

📅 Managing operative and surveyor diaries to ensure damp & mould inspections and remedial works are scheduled efficiently.

🏠 Coordinating appointments for residents, ensuring all parties are informed and works are completed within agreed timescales.

📞 Acting as a key point of contact for residents, operatives, supervisors, and clients.

⚡ Responding quickly to changing priorities, emergency cases, and vulnerable resident requirements.

📊 Monitoring work in progress (WIP) and helping to drive performance against service targets and KPIs.

📈 Producing productivity reports, performance data, and management information to support operational teams.

🤝 Working closely with Supervisors, Surveyors, Resident Liaison Officers, and Contractors to maximise productivity and customer satisfaction.

✅ Supporting the smooth delivery of damp & mould programmes from initial inspection through to completion.

📧 Communicating with customers via telephone, email, and digital systems to keep them informed throughout the process.

🔍 Identifying scheduling challenges, recommending improvements, and supporting continuous service enhancement.

⚠️ Ensuring all planned works are scheduled in line with company Health & Safety procedures and compliance requirements.

 

🎯 What We're Looking For

Essential

✅ Experience in a scheduling, planning, coordination, customer service, or administration role

✅ Excellent diary management and organisational skills

✅ Strong customer service and communication skills

✅ Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

✅ Experience using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, and Word

✅ Strong attention to detail and data accuracy

✅ Ability to build positive relationships with customers, operatives, and stakeholders

✅ Confident working with performance targets and service KPIs

✅ Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable

⭐ Experience within social housing, property maintenance, repairs, or construction

⭐ Understanding of damp & mould processes and housing maintenance works

⭐ Experience scheduling multi-trade operatives or contractors

⭐ Knowledge of planned maintenance or responsive repairs environments

⭐ Experience producing performance reports and management information

⭐ Understanding of health & safety requirements within property services

 

💡 What Success Looks Like

You'll help us deliver:

✔ Faster damp & mould response times

✔ Improved customer satisfaction

✔ Efficient use of operational resources

✔ Reduced work in progress

✔ Enhanced communication with residents

✔ Safer, healthier homes for our customers

 

🙌 What You'll Bring

We're looking for someone who is:

💬 A great communicator

🤝 Customer-focused and empathetic

⚡ Proactive and solutions-driven

📊 Organised and detail-oriented

📅 Skilled at planning and prioritising workloads

🧠 Calm under pressure

🚀 Passionate about continuous improvement

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🎁 What You'll Get

✅ Competitive salary and benefits package

✅ Opportunities for training and career development

✅ Supportive and collaborative team culture

✅ Company pension scheme

✅ Generous holiday entitlement

✅ The opportunity to make a genuine difference to residents' lives

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🏠 Join us in tackling damp and mould, improving living conditions, and helping residents feel safe, supported, and proud of their homes.

Apply today and become part of a team making a real impact across the Birmingham community and beyond. 💙