Maintenance Officer (NIHE)

Your new company The services of Hays have been retained by our client, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, to recruit a Maintenance Officer on an ongoing temporary contract basis to work from their offices in Belfast. Your new role Reporting to the Area Maintenance Manager, you will ensure that maintenance repairs to Housing Executive homes are carried out to exacting cost, quality and time standards in accordance with the terms of contracts. Your main duties will include:To carry out inspections of properties to a set timetable in order to authorise the Housing Executive''s Contractors to carry out necessary maintenance work;To conduct inspections of properties, again to a set timetable, in order that works done are of an acceptable standard and that payment for such work can be authorised;To advise tenants of maintenance policies and their responsibilities for the maintenance of some items in their homes or to provide information on the progress of works on their homes or the timeframes for such works to be done;To bring deficiencies in the delivery of an effective maintenance service to the attention of the Contractor in the first instance in order that remedial action can be taken;To liaise with other Housing Executive staff, particularly those involved in the allocation of homes, to ensure that houses vacated on changes of tenancy have the necessary work done so that they can be re-let as soon as possible.What you''ll need to succeed To be considered for this ..... full job details .....