Position: Planner (2x positions available)
Location: Lambeth, SW2 
Hours: 8am-5pm
Salary: £16.50 umbrella rate

Temp to perm position / full time office based

Job Details:

• Planning approx. 10-11 operatives on a daily basis
• Answering inbound and outbound calls from residents, operatives and staff
• Handling a general enquiry inbox
• Working on WIP reports
• Answer incoming calls with regards to repairs issues
• Effective use of their in house system to actively schedule available Operatives and Sub-Contractors to jobs.
• Deal with complex repairs, demanding customers and those who have suffered service failure, to contain issues and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Handling calls and emails from the client to log issues, deploy Operatives and monitor completion of the work, providing updates at regular intervals.
• Ensure that the system is updated in a timely manner so that the client and the Operations are in receipt of the most up to date information.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Operatives, clients, customers (internal and external) and suppliers
• Understanding and diagnosing repair requests. Take ownership and responsibility for identifying the customer’s needs and use appropriate questioning, listening and diagnosis skills to identify the issues and offer appropriate solutions.
• Managing incoming repairs inbox and allocating repairs works appropriately
• Scheduling work for operatives to attend properties and undertake works

Experience:

• Experience within housing repairs 
• Experience scheduling engineer diaries 
• You will need to understand and take responsibility for the fact that this role is pivotal to the successful delivery of the duties of the contract.
• You will have strong organisational and time management skills and be able to multi task effectively.
• You will have excellent communication skills, a “can do” attitude with an eye for detail and be able to transmit and encourage that attitude.
• Advance Excel, Word & Time Management skills.
• Act as a conduit to continually improve first point of contact call management & Job creation.

 
If you are interested in this position please apply or call Leah Seber at Build Recruitment.

Build Recruitment Limited acts as an Employment Business for the supply of temporary workers and an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Build Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.