Senior Maintenance Operative

Senior Maintenance Operative
Location: Leatherhead
Salary: £42,840 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 27th June 2026
We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Maintenance Operative to join our Maintenance Services team within Mount Green, based in Leatherhead, Surrey. This is a hands-on role where you’ll deliver high-quality repairs and maintenance while also stepping up as a lead operative on site.
You’ll play a key role in ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and right first time - supporting colleagues, mentoring apprentices, and helping drive service quality across the team.
What you’ll be doing
* Delivering a wide range of responsive repairs, void works and planned maintenance
* Diagnosing issues and completing high-quality repairs right first time
* Acting as a senior point of contact on site, supporting operatives and apprentices
* Carrying out quality checks and identifying improvements to services
* Supporting supervisors with job updates, risks and resource needs
* Ensuring full compliance with health & safety, safeguarding and company standards
* Providing a great customer experience — clear communication and professional service at all times
* Using mobile systems to manage jobs, materials and updates in real time
What we’re looking for
* Strong multi-trade experience in housing or building maintenance
* Relevant trade qualification (NVQ Level 2/3, City & Guilds or equivalent) or significant experience
* A commitment to quality, safety and customer service
* Confidence working independently and supporting others on site
* Good communication skills and a collaborative approach
* Comfortable using mobile technology or job management systems
It’s a bonus if you’ve:
* Supported or mentored apprentices or junior operatives
* Worked within social housing, repairs or voids
* Experience identifying quality or compliance issues
Discover Stonewater:
Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.
To Apply
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