Roofing Supervisor

Location: Tottenham

Job Type: Trades and Labour

Contract: Full Time/Flexible Working

Application Deadline: 03 Oct 2024

The Vacancy

Wates have an opportunity for a Roofing Supervisor to join our Wates team within our Responsive Maintenance division. You will be working out of our Tottenham office on one of our social housing contracts, delivering reactive maintenance to our residents.

Key Accountabilities will include:


  • Undertake repair/renewal roofing works.
  • Communicate effectively with the scheduler, residents, and line manager.
  • Work safely and in compliance with Health & Safety and safeguarding requirements
  • Remain up to date with technical and legal requirements of skill area.
  • Work in partnership with other operatives to complete repairs when required.
  • Complete work sheets detailing work undertaken and materials used after each job undertaken, via a PDA.

You must have a full UK driving licence.

To be successful in the role you must also be an excellent communicator with the ability to problem solve, multi task and work to tight deadlines. Prior responsive maintenance experience is crucial to the role. You must also have your SSSTS qualification as a minimum.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

  • Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
  • Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
  • Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.