Housing Estates Manager

Job introduction

Love Brighton & Hove?

Would you like to work in a friendly, supportive team, earn a great salary and work to keep our estates and neighbourhoods safe and secure? Then we would like to hear from you.

For an informal discussion, please contact Chloe Mclaughlin - Housing Estates Manager on 01273 294769.

About the role

You may already have experience in providing a high quality, customer focussed and responsive service. You will be managing and continually improving the delivery of a high quality, value for money, cleaning, bulk removal, locksmith and repair service in the communal areas of council owned flats and estates in Brighton & Hove.

We take pride in the work we do making sure our buildings and surrounding areas meet a high standard. You will take an operational lead in the day to day management of teams to ensure standards are met.

You will have a substantial understanding of building services and building maintenance alongside the knowledge of the complexities of mortice, yale and profile locks, which can be used to be able to identify and report issues accurately and timely.

You will be authorising expenditure from the service's budget, taking balanced decisions about the use of additional resources to service pressures.

You must be able to recommend and implement changes to continually improve the service and manage the process of dealing with enquiries and complaints from the public.

To work with residents and other, internal and external partners to ensure all our services offer value for money.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).