Estate Delivery Team Manager

Livewest

The Role

Overview

Lead estate services team delivering grounds maintenance and communal cleaning.

Key Responsibilities

  • stock audits
  • waste management
  • procurement
  • inspections
  • fleet management
  • budget management

Tasks

-Oversee stock audits, waste management, and procurement support to ensure smooth service delivery. -Resolve operational challenges collaboratively, promoting a 'one-team, one-purpose' ethos. -Provide visible leadership - coach, mentor, and develop your team to delivery excellent service and live our values. -Monitor standards through inspections and audits, and respond to complaints and feedback with technical expertise. -Manage vehicles, equipment, and resources effectively, supporting the Fleet Manager, and ensuring safe, professional operations at all times. -Lead and supervise a team of Estate Operatives, Lead Grounds Operatives, Grounds Operatives, and contractors to delivery high-quality estate services. -Drive improvements in Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) by ensuring your team is skilled, supported and well-led. -Manage budgets and contribute to strategic planning, ensuring value for money and long-term estate improvements.

Requirements

  • driving licence
  • project management
  • customer service
  • team leadership
  • horticultural
  • health safety

What You Bring

-Full, UK, manual driving licence. -Ability to manage multiple projects across dispersed locations. -Strong customer services skills, adaptable to different customer needs. -Experience leading and developing effective teams. -Good level of literacy and numeracy. -Horticultural knowledge (e.g. pruning cycles, pest awareness, seasonal planting). -Working towards, or holding, a leadership qualifications. -Health and Safety training (SSSTS, SMSTS, IOSH or equivalent).

Benefits

-Generous Annual Leave: Start with 26 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with length of service - and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days (pro rated for part time roles). -Health Benefits and Perks: Access to a health care cash plan (worth up to £1,100 annually), virtual GP services, discounted gym memberships, and retail discounts including access to a Blue Light Card. -Opportunities for professional development and career progression. -Smarter Travel: Save with our Cycle to Work and Car Benefit schemes. -Learning and Development: Invest in your future with ongoing personal and professional growth opportunities. -Wellbeing Matters: Prioritise your health with mental health support, enhanced sick pay, wellness campaigns, and free flu jabs. -Family Support: Policies designed to help you balance work and family life, including a new child payment. -Full Kit: Uniform and PPE supplied for your safety and convenience. -Pension Contributions: Enjoy up to 9% employer contributions with our Defined Contribution scheme. -Giving Back: Up to four paid volunteering days a year to support our communities. -Company Van: Includes a fuel card for work related travel. -A supportive and inclusive working culture. -The chance to work in a role that directly improves lives and communities.

The Company

About Livewest

-Born in March 2018 from the merger of Knightstone Housing and DCH, it carries over decades of housing heritage across Cornwall to Gloucestershire. -It blends affordable rent, shared ownership, and private sale to fuel future development. -Reinvests profits from private-sale homes into more affordable housing, sustaining thousands of construction and supply-chain jobs. -Projects span supported housing for vulnerable groups through to contemporary shared-ownership developments. -Specializes in residential development and management, maintaining an in-house property services team handling repairs, compliance, and upgrades. -A standout initiative is its InFocus customer-scrutiny group, empowering residents to shape repair and service standards from the ground up.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Affordable Housing

Community Support

Tenancy Sustainment

Customer Services

Property Management

Housing Development

Sustainability

Wellbeing Support

Visa Sponsorship

-not eligible for certificate of sponsorship; must already have right to work in the uk.

Security Clearance

-appointment subject to a satisfactory basic dbs check.