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Repairs and Maintenance Co-ordinator

companyNorth Northamptonshire Council
locationCorby, UK
PublishedPublished: Published 3 weeks ago
Repairs / Maintenance
About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Housing Property Services as a Repairs and Maintenance Co-ordinator working in the Capital Investment team. You will be required to carry out Stock Conditions surveys on our council housing stock, alongside supporting Repairs Officers with the day to day running of the department.
  • Ensure financial compliance with North Northamptonshire Council procedures.
  • Maintain work procedures and systems which ensure that an effective, efficient and accountable service is delivered.
  • Ensure your service area responsibilities are properly coordinated across work areas and fit for purpose in order to meet both the Councils and its customers. expectations.
  • Determine priority and program work.
  • Plan own workload and develop systems of work.
  • To create, review and update health and safety policies and procedures in conjunction with the Health and safety team.
  • To provide professional advice and recommendations to enable the council to maintain compliance with relevant health and safety, building and environmental legislation.
  • Ensure your service area has a strong and effective relationship with other partnering services within the organisation, in order to meet customer demands.
  • Ensure that standard management procedures and protocols are maintained, in line with good practice policies.
  • Ensure good relationships with partner organisations, Elected Members, Chief Officers and tenants are maintained and are appropriate.
What will you be doing?
Principal Responsibilities
  1. Undertake surveys, prepare tender documentation, specifications and technical information.
  2. Prepare reports under the direction of the Team Leader.
  3. Support the Team Leader in developing best value partnerships with contractors. Attending site meetings and liaising with Contractor management and supervisory staff.
  4. To manage pre and post inspection and ensure appropriate records and audit trail are kept,
  5. Provide technical support for NNC tradesmen and contractors.
  6. Audit van impress stock at regular intervals and keep records.
  7. Plan and monitor the performance of your area of responsibility, using agreed Performance Indicators to include all areas of works.
  8. Ensure effective systems of communication are established and managed to promote a high level of Services and their benefits to customers.
  9. To provide professional advice and recommendations to enable the council to maintain compliance with relevant health and safety, building and environmental legislation.


General responsibilities applicable to all jobs

  1. Demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
  2. Comply with the Council's policies and procedures including (but not limited to) safeguarding, financial regulations, promotion of equalities, customer care, agreed audit actions and health and safety (ensuring that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons).
  3. Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.
  4. Ongoing training essential to maintain qualification
  5. Post holder must be willing to attend evening meetings as and when required
  6. Post holder must be willing to travel
  7. Post holder must hold a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
  8. The post has been evaluated as a stressful role due to the nature of the work involved.

This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the post holder and identifies a level of responsibility at which they will be required to work. In the interests of effective working, the major tasks may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changing needs and circumstances. Such reviews and any consequential changes will be carried out in consultation with the post holder.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising that you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:
  • a competitive salary
  • a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
  • lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
  • generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
  • hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council's pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)