The Opportunity Client: Ipswich BC Contract: Initial 6 months Rate: (£53,051 - £55,224 per annum) Principal Manager (Maintenance) (salary up to £ 55,224) A senior post at Ipswich Borough Council; in one of its largest front line services. The Maintenance and Contracts service spends circa. £25 million annually repairing, maintaining and improving a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties including 15 sheltered schemes and 4 Homeless Families Units to our local "Ipswich Standard". The Council takes a holistic approach to stock management and has one seamless service that is responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of our homes; to ensure they remain safe and decent at all times. Housing is a flagship service of Ipswich Borough Council, and it is a service that is vital for our tenants and very much in the public eye - as you would expect with such a range of work The Principal Manager will be one of six senior management posts within the Maintenance and Contracts service (part of the Housing directorate) dedicated to continuous improvement, efficient services and improving housing standards for our tenants. You will be expected to head up a safety and compliance team responsible for ensuring Council homes meet all regulatory standards and tenants remain safe in their homes at all times, adopting a zero-tolerance (of failure). approach. This will include responsibility for the landlord''s ''big 9'' compliance safety items; namely ..... full job details .....