Property & Maintenance Manager

  • Exact Sourcing Ltd
  • Newmarket, Suffolk
  • Feb 09, 2026
Full time Real Estate

Job Description

We're partnering with a values-led organisation to appoint an experienced Property & Maintenance Manager to take ownership of Health & Safety compliance, contractor performance, and the long-term condition of a diverse residential portfolio.

This is a role for someone who enjoys real accountability, ensuring properties are safe, compliant, well-maintained, and future-ready while also playing a key role in shaping sustainability.

You'll work closely with senior leadership, influence strategic decisions, and see the direct impact of your work on residents and communities.

As the Property & Maintenance Manager, you will be:

Leading Health & Safety & Compliance

  • Taking full responsibility for delivering 100% Health & Safety compliance across the portfolio.
  • Managing statutory and non-statutory compliance, contractor controls, and robust documentation and monitoring processes.
  • Acting as a trusted technical partner to senior leadership on all H&S and property matters.

Managing Contracts & Value for Money

  • Specifying, tendering, and procuring maintenance and servicing contracts in line with procurement policy.
  • Managing frameworks and service agreements to ensure quality, compliance, and strong value for money.
  • Verifying completed works, variations, and invoices to ensure accuracy and transparency.
  • Ensuring effective out-of-hours and emergency repair arrangements are always in place.

Overseeing Property Condition & Asset Performance

  • Inspecting properties to assess condition, maintenance needs, and design standards.
  • Identifying planned works, improvement programmes, handovers, and defect sign-offs.
  • Supporting development, acquisition, and disposal activity with technical inspections and defect management.

Driving Service Improvement

  • Investigating and resolving maintenance-related complaints.
  • Turning lessons learned into practical service improvements that raise standards and resident satisfaction.

Shaping Sustainability & Decarbonisation

  • Helping to shape and deliver the organisation's decarbonisation strategy across homes, blocks, and estates.
  • Identifying funding opportunities and supporting the delivery of energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives.

What This Role Offers you as the Property & Maintenance Manager

  • A genuine opportunity to own and influence property and compliance services
  • Close working relationships with senior decision-makers
  • Exposure to strategic sustainability and decarbonisation projects
  • A role where your technical expertise directly improves homes and resident outcomes
  • A values-driven organisation that takes safety, quality, and accountability seriously

This role will appeal to an experienced Property, Asset, or Maintenance Manager with a strong Health & Safety and compliance background, who enjoys balancing hands-on technical oversight with strategic input.

By applying for this Property & Contracts Manager post, you are agreeing to your CV being held on our database, stored confidentially and securely. Your CV details will be used and kept only to provide recruitment services from us. We will only send your details to clients once discussed with you and your data will not be shared with any other third party. You can ask for the deletion or correction of your data, or to opt out of this service at any point by informing Exact Sourcing.

We very much look forward to hearing from you and will be reviewing all applications over the next 2 to 3 weeks. If you are selected, we will be in contact and if not, we will be keeping your details on file for any future vacancies. Please follow us on Twitter or 'like' us on Facebook to keep updated with any future opportunities.

Exact Sourcing is an equal opportunities employment agency.