Planner - Complex Works
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, London |
| Company: | Riverside |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4753 |
Summary
Job Title: Planner -Complex Works
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £30,972.90 per annum
Working Hours: Full time 40 hours
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday
Location: Arlington, London
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
The difference you will make as a Planner -Complex Works
Riverside Property Services manages the repairs and maintenance service to over 24,000 properties across London, the Southeast and Home Counties.
Riverside Property Services undertakes repairs, damp and mould works, Planned and Complex repair work, servicing and voids work to our customers’ homes via our in-house team and a variety of contractors and service providers who are employed on our behalf. This includes repairs to general needs, leasehold, market rent and our specialist Care and Support schemes. Our work also includes statutory and regulatory compliance checks.
You will be responsible for planning the schedule of operatives within the relevant work stream. You will ensure the provision of effective and efficient administration surrounding the works and other technical projects. Supporting your technical team, managers and operational teams to achieve KPI’s. Although you may predominantly cover one area, you may be asked to support/cover other areas as the business needs.
About you
We are looking for someone with
- Good level IT skills and literacy
- Good communication skills, both oral and written
- Self-motivated, resilient, assertive and confident
- Proven experience of excellent customer service skills
- Excellent time management, planning & organisational skills .
Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy:
- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
- A wide range of benefits
Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Role Profile
- Responsible for an effective administration contribution to enable work to be carried out in a timely and compliant manner.
- Work as part of a high performing team and ensure your actions are supportive of the team being successful.
- Answers phones, emails, CRM cases and schedules and confirms appointments and inputs data into the system.
- Maintaining all tasks, including raising jobs, requisitions, follow on works, sub-contractor works; ensure all records are always kept up to date including job details, appointments, job statuses, relevant time & dates, costs.
- Ensuring that operatives are working efficiently, and operative workload is maintained in line with the WIPs (Works in progress).
- Contacting residents to ensure access is gained for works.
- Work with emergency appointments and resolve scheduling conflicts.
- Ensuring that subcontractors are completing jobs on time, and they submit completed documents and photographic evidence correctly ready for supervisor’ review and contractor payment
- Escalate any operatives/ contractors’ issues to the relevant surveyor/manager
- Ensuring you have the “first time fix” approach.
- Assisting operatives/ supervisors / surveyors / complaints officers
- Assisting in the investigation and resolution of complaints (informal and formal) and expressions of dissatisfaction with the service
- Maintaining the team inbox and the CRM cases and answering queries.
- Updating the system with relevant information
- Other administrative duties to support Property Services and liaising with other departments where necessary.
- Any other reasonable duties to support service delivery.
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Good level IT skills and literacy
- Good communication skills, both oral and written
- Self-motivated, resilient, assertive and confident
- Proven experience of excellent customer service skills
- Excellent time management, planning & organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- A passion for delivering excellent customer service
- Strong customer experience ethos
- Able to work alone or as part of team, demonstrates company values e.g. customer first.
Desirable
- Experience of working in the Housing/Property sector
- Experience using Dynamic Scheduling system
- Experience using Job Management Software
- Awareness of Damp and Mould