Would you like to work for a successful local housing association with a rich heritage and passion for providing quality housing and services for people in later life?

We are looking for a Property & Compliance Manager to join us with the primary responsibility of working with Contractors and staff to drive performance, quality of service and efficiencies.  This role ensures we continue to maintain compliance.  The successful candidate must be a people manager, with an eye for detail, bring new ideas and have a sound understanding of compliance and Health & Safety.  Normal working hours are Monday to Thursday, 9am-5pm and Friday, 9am-4.30pm, although we do offer agile working, with some requirement to attend emergency call outs.

Key responsibilities include:-

1. • Ensuring Health & Safety is regularly monitored and reviewed and in line with legislation and best practice both internally and by our contractors.
   • Managing a Property Services team of six people ensuring all building maintenance, associated mechanical and electrical service works and planned investment programmes are carried out in accordance with associated legislation and Pickering and Ferens business plan for our portfolio of circa 1400 properties.
   • Assist in the preparation, monitoring and expenditure of maintenance budgets including major repairs, cyclical maintenance, planned maintenance and miscellaneous works.
   • Monitoring and reviewing performance for all areas of the operational property services function, providing performance information and associated improvement plans.
   • Reviewing the risk register and proposing actions and control procedures to minimise risk.
   • Attending to out of hours emergencies as part of an emergency call out team on occasions. This is a fundamental part of the role so own transport and a clean driving license is required.

Our ideal candidate will have:

1. • IOSH and/or NEBOSH qualifications and a Building Studies/Construction related qualification and over three year’s relevant experience.
   • Experience of managing a property services team ideally within the housing sector, however, other sector experience will be considered.
   • Experience of managing and monitoring contractors within the building / construction industry.
   • Ability to drive continuous improvements within our working practices.
   • A track record of delivering cost effective maintenance programmes.
   • Excellent working knowledge and experience of both Microsoft 365 packages, including Microsoft Teams and a customer management information database particularly within a property services function.
   • The ability to relate well to people and manage expectations in a positive and calm manner, building good working relationships with staff, contractors and residents.