A well-established and reputable construction company in Macclesfield is recruiting for a temporary Maintenance Manager to lead a seamless, proactive, and tenant-focused repairs service. You will be ensuring equipment and facilities are well-maintained to minimise downtime. In this Maintenance Manager role you will lead a team, schedule repairs, manage budgets, and ensure safety compliance. You also identify issues and implement improvements for efficiency.Benefits of the Maintenance Manager role:

• £55k a year with possible earnings of £60k
• 6 month contract
• Benefit of out-of-hours on call payments

Maintenance Manager duties:

• Lead effective communication and coordination with tenants, colleagues, external contractors and suppliers to ensure repairs are delivered to required targets.
• Oversee internal electrical and gas works, ensuring full legal and regulatory compliance.
• Run day-to-day repair operations, including job creation, scheduling, task dispatch, appointment management, complaints handling and materials procurement.
• Control budgets and maintain accurate ordering and payment processes to support service delivery.
• Drive in-house team performance, ensuring KPIs are consistently met or exceeded.
• Act as a key point of contact for residents, handling queries, complaints and compliments professionally.
• Maintain and review operational risk registers, ensuring controls meet organisational requirements.
• Take responsibility for health and safety compliance, including task-specific risk assessments for relevant activities.
• Coordinate the Out-of-Hours emergency repairs service and oversee any disrepair claims and related works.
• Develop and refine processes, reporting tools and procedures to improve service delivery and support business development.
• Provide strong leadership to staff, ensuring effective recruitment, training, appraisal, wellbeing, and promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion

We would love to speak to anyone who has experience in:

• Extensive knowledge of Capita, Total mobile & DRS technologies
• Experience managing a trades team
• Building Trades qualification e.g. City & Guilds Adv / NVQ Level III
• Professional or management qualification
• Full UK driving licence
• Strong communication skills and willingness to find better ways and approaches.
• Proven skills in managing budgets exceeding £1m and ability demonstrate logical commercial financial acumen
• Good understanding of health and safety legislations
• Experience in a social housing background
• Good knowledge of Capita, TotalMobile and DRS systems.
• Able to analyse information and produce clear reports.

If you are interested in Maintenance Manager position, apply online now or contact Paris on or email for a confidential chat.