Communal Repairs Technical Officer

Additional details

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

The Role

Maintaining communal spaces on estates is an important step in helping people feel more at home. It makes for safer, more pleasant places to live. Places that residents can be proud of. Managing 54,000 council homes, Southwark is a major player in social housing provision. We set the standard many other local authorities follow. You’ll be given specific responsibility for the maintenance and safety of building exteriors and communal areas within a specialist repairs team.

About You

Working closely with residents, you will identify and specify work to be done and manage delivery by in house teams and contractors. Working in a team within a progressive and improving council, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to make your mark. Your focus will be on customers and excellent value for money. You’re likely to have a background in housing and a good grounding in customer service or another public-facing role. An understanding of construction and maintenance contracts is essential.

About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Recruitment timetable

Advert Closing Date: 17/08/2025

Interview Date: Week commencing 1st September 2025

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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