Lead Maintenance and Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 11 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,000 to £65,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Salary £60,000 to £65,000 per annum plus great benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 September 2025 |
| Location: | Durham (Mercury House), DH1 1TW |
| Company: | Home Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 251291 |
Summary
Lead Maintenance and Contract Manager
Belmont, Durham with hybrid working, currently 2 days in the office and 3 days from home
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)
Salary £60,000 to £65,000 pa, depending on skills and experience plus car allowance and brilliant benefits!
Home, a place where you belong
If you like fixing problems, leading people and leaving things in a better place than you found them. And you want a role that gives you room to grow, shape change and do work that matters. Sound familiar? If so, this might be the move you’ve been waiting for!
As our new Lead Maintenance and Contract Manager, you’ll play a key role in our Maintenance team, helping us deliver repairs and services that really work for our customers. You’ll lead change with freedom and purpose, championing better ways of working and seeing ideas through from start to finish. It’s a big job, but a meaningful one. You’ll be part of a warm, motivated team where your voice is heard, and your work makes a visible difference.
What you’ll do
Lead a large, mobile team and contractors to deliver repairs, voids and servicing works
Build strong relationships with our maintenance partners and hold them to account
Drive improvements in cost, time, quality and customer experience
Take ownership of key contracts, resolving disputes and making sure work gets done right first time
Champion change across the team and lead on strategic projects
Keep a close eye on budgets, performance and safety, always putting customers first
Why chose us
Imagine finishing each day knowing you’ve made a real difference in our customers’ lives. That’s exactly what you’ll do here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK!
You’ll get flexibility, autonomy and support to shape your role. We’ll back your development and encourage your growth every step of the way.
What you bring
Been educated to degree level (or equivalent) with strong background of in-house and maintenance management/contract management
Membership of a professional body, CIOB, RICS or equivalent
Experience in leading dispersed teams in maintenance or contract management
Strong skills in building partnerships, solving problems and driving performance, with a clear, calm way of communicating
Confidence with data, budgets and contracts to make sound decisions
A strategic mind, with the drive to deliver lasting change
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review
Job details
Full time, 37.5 hpw Monday to Friday, flexible working hours (we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
Hybrid working, from home and our office in Belmont, Durham
Able to use technology, for monitoring progress of works and budget management
A full current UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle. We’ll pay your mileage.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy), the potential to buy 5 extra days leave (subject to criteria), and paid time off for volunteering
Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
Enjoy flexible pay with Wagestream, allowing instant access to earned wages whenever you need it, along with budgets, save, and you’re your financial well-being
Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
We’re a top 10 UK Wellbeing employer our tools and support are here when you need them! W
Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Lead Maintenance and Contract Manager Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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