Estates Supervisor

We’re looking for a proactive and experienced Estate Supervisor to join our Environmental Services team on a fixed-term basis until May 2027.

This is a hands-on supervisory role, helping coordinate the delivery of grounds maintenance, mobile cleaning, arboriculture and wider environmental services. You’ll support and motivate frontline teams, make effective use of resources and help ensure our estates and neighbourhoods are maintained to a high standard.

What you’ll be doing

• Supervising and coordinating Grounds Maintenance and Mobile Estate Operatives, providing additional management cover when required.
• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of grounds maintenance, cleaning, arboriculture, fencing, flagging and waste removal services.
• Planning workloads and making effective use of colleagues, plant, materials and other resources to maintain productivity and value for money.
• Monitoring performance, attendance and service standards, while coaching colleagues and supporting their development.
• Working with customers, colleagues, contractors and partners to maintain high standards and address service issues.
• Promoting safe working practices, ensuring risk assessments, method statements and relevant health and safety requirements are followed.

What we’re looking for

• Experience working within Environmental Services, including areas such as grounds maintenance, cleaning, arboriculture, fencing, flagging or waste removal.
• Experience supervising operational teams and supporting colleagues to achieve productivity, performance and customer service standards.
• Strong knowledge of environmental services equipment, working practices and health and safety, including COSHH, risk assessments and method statements.
• Good organisational and communication skills, with the ability to prioritise changing workloads and build positive relationships with customers, contractors and colleagues.
• Confidence using IT systems, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, to support monitoring and reporting.
• A flexible, practical and customer-focused approach, with a commitment to continuous improvement and delivering value for money.

• An ILM Award, either completed or currently being undertaken, would be desirable.

Additional information

• A full driving licence is required.
• The successful candidate will be required to complete a basic DBS check.
• Some flexibility to work outside normal working hours may be required to meet service needs.

Why this role matters

You’ll play an important part in keeping our estates clean, safe and well maintained while supporting frontline colleagues to deliver consistently high standards.

Through strong supervision, practical problem-solving and a collaborative approach, you’ll help ensure our Environmental Services continue to provide an efficient, reliable and customer-focused service.

Closing Date: Wednesday 4th November

Please note the above date is subject to change, and the advert may be closed early dependent on applications received. If you are interested in applying, don't wait!

Why join us?

As an Investors in People Health & Wellbeing recognised employer we offer a wide range of benefits such as;

• 25 days Annual Leave, rising to 30 with length of service and subject to approval the option to buy and sell additional annual leave*
• Enhanced leave options for Maternity, Paternity, Adoption & Shared Parental Leave*
• Enhanced Pension scheme contributions
• Our Health Care Plan gives you money back for dental, optical, therapy costs and more
• Subsidised Healthy Living benefits i.e. gym membership or yoga classes
• Subsidised Leisure Learning benefits i.e. finance towards driving lessons or learning a new language
• Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme*
• Volunteering days in the local community
• We offer a Salary Sacrifice Pension option*

*Subject to eligibility criteria

About Us

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) manages almost 14,000 properties, providing homes for more than 29,000 people in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

We are committed to investing in the health, wellbeing and development of colleagues, who we will reward fairly and empower and trust to deliver their best work for the benefit of WCHG, our customers and stakeholders. WCHG is an inclusive employer of choice where differences are recognised as strengths in delivering our purpose. A disability confident employer WCHG will work to make reasonable adjustments where possible throughout its employment processes.

Our purpose is to provide good quality homes and services to our customers and leaseholders and to play a leading role in creating safer, healthier communities. WCHG boasts an impressive development portfolio which aims to deliver on average 1,100 new homes over the next five years with £195m estimated investment, leaving a lasting legacy in our communities.