Job Title: Repairs Planner
Location: Sittingbourne, ME10
Salary: 30,000 PER ANNUM
Sector: Social Housing
8-5 Monday-Friday FULL TIME OFFICE BASED. MUST HAVE SOCIAL HOUSING EXPERIENCE
The Role
We're looking for a highly organised and customer-focused Scheduler to join our Repairs and Maintenance team.
Working in a fast-paced environment, you'll play a key role in planning and scheduling repairs and maintenance works, ensuring operatives' time is used productively while delivering a high-quality service to residents and clients. You'll act as a central point of communication between residents, operatives, supervisors and client teams, helping to keep works moving smoothly from start to finish.
What You'll Do
- Provide excellent customer service to residents, handling enquiries, bookings and appointment changes.
- Plan, schedule and manage repairs and maintenance works efficiently, maximising operative productivity.
- Allocate and update jobs using scheduling and job management systems (e.g. ROCC, DRS, Opti-time).
- Work closely with supervisors and operatives to coordinate daily workloads and optimise routes.
- Manage emergency and priority works appropriately, escalating to out-of-hours services only when required.
- Monitor work in progress, ensuring jobs are progressed and closed within target timescales.
- Ensure operatives are correctly using and updating PDAs and digital systems.
- Act as the key communication link between residents, operatives and client teams.
- Maintain accurate records, notes and job updates across all systems.
- Support the wider scheduling team, providing cover during absences where required.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- IT literate, with confidence using scheduling and job management systems.
- Excellent telephone manner and communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines in a busy environment.
- Experience in scheduling, planning, administration or high-volume customer service/call handling.
Desirable
- Experience within social housing, repairs or maintenance environments.
- Knowledge of repairs and maintenance terminology and KPIs.
- Experience using systems such as ROCC, Opti-time or DRS.
If you feel as so this REPAIRS PLANNER role is suitable to yourself, please email your CV to: