Supervisor

🏗️ Join Our Team – Repairs Supervisor (Lambeth)

We're looking for a proactive and experienced Repairs Supervisor to take ownership of a designated patch in Lambeth, overseeing responsive maintenance works across our housing stock. This role is ideal for someone with strong hands-on trade knowledge 🔨 and a passion for delivering high-quality repairs services.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment ⚡ and enjoy leading from the front, this could be your next great opportunity.

🔧 Your Role Will Include:

• 📍 Taking full responsibility for a designated geographical patch, ensuring all repairs are delivered efficiently and to high standards.
• 👷 Supervising operatives and subcontractors across various trades, driving productivity and quality of workmanship.
• 🛠️ Managing day-to-day responsive repairs works, ensuring jobs are completed on time and to customer satisfaction.
• ✅ Carrying out post-inspections and quality checks on completed works.
• ⚠️ Monitoring and enforcing health & safety compliance across all sites.
• 💬 Handling customer complaints through to resolution, ensuring a positive outcome where possible.
• 🤝 Liaising with tenants, planners, and internal teams to deliver an excellent repairs service.
• 📊 Supporting performance management, resource allocation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

📋 What We're Looking For:

• 🎓 SSSTS (Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme) – essential.
• 🔨 Strong trade background (e.g. carpentry, plumbing, or general building) with solid multi-trade knowledge.
• 📜 NVQ Level 2 in a relevant trade (desirable).
• 🏢 Proven experience supervising repairs/maintenance within social housing or a similar environment.
• 🧭 Ability to manage your own patch and workload independently.
• 💡 Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills.
• 🚗 Full UK driving licence.

🎁 What You'll Get:

• 🧑‍🔧 Ownership of your own patch with autonomy to manage workloads.
• 🤝 A supportive and collaborative team environment.
• 📈 Opportunities for career progression and further training.
• 💰 Competitive salary and benefits package, including company vehicle or allowance, pension scheme, and generous holiday entitlement.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. 

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting 

Our commitments:  

WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk