Careers

At Oaklee, our people are our greatest asset.
They form our culture and make us stand apart from our competitors. We have an abundance of talented people across the company, which makes for a high-performing and friendly environment.
Benefits & Culture Open Roles

Benefits & Culture

At Oaklee, we offer stimulating, challenging, and rewarding careers, within a supportive work environment. Oaklee has an exceptional team culture which is underpinned by our core values of creativity, bravery, equality, focus, teamwork, and empathy.

We provide excellent training and professional development opportunities including mentoring for all employees, leading to defined career progression.

Open Roles

We are always looking to grow the Oaklee team, and successful candidates are ambitious, pioneering, fair, precise, and passionate about the future of Ireland’s Housing sector and placemaking.

Open Roles

Hours per week: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent, Full‑Time
Salary: €66,138 – €75,231 (commensurate with experience)
Location: Dublin 8 / Hybrid (nationwide travel required)

Oaklee is an Approved Housing Body (AHB) established in 2001 to deliver high-quality modern homes for older people, families, mature single people, and people with complex needs. Continually collaborating with our statutory and voluntary partners, we have rapidly grown our presence across Ireland to become one of Ireland’s most ambitious providers of customer-focused housing and support services.

Oaklee is building internal capacity to support growth, strengthen governance and improve service delivery. Oaklee plans to significantly expand its housing portfolio in the coming years, supported by investment in people, systems and data.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Lead and manage Property Services delivery

  • Line-manage a team of Property Services Officers, setting clear priorities, expectations and service standards

  • Promote consistent working practices across the team and support staff development

  • Foster a culture of ownership, proactive problem-solving and resident focus

Oversee repairs, voids and contractor performance

  • Support delivery of responsive repairs, voids and day-to-day maintenance services across Oaklee’s homes

  • Monitor contractor performance, service quality and case progression using performance data

  • Identify trends, repeat issues and service risks, and take corrective action

  • Support post-inspections, quality checks and case reviews

Provide technical oversight and escalation

  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex repairs and inspection queries

  • Support accurate diagnosis of common residential issues such as damp and mould, water ingress and ventilation

  • Ensure adherence to agreed technical standards and repair specifications

  • Escalate structural, systemic or compliance-related issues to Asset Management where required

Support new homes and operational readiness

  • Work with Development, Asset Management and Housing to prepare for new homes entering management

  • Attend inspections, snagging reviews and handover meetings

  • Ensure handover documentation (e.g. Safety Files, O&M manuals, warranties) is complete and usable

  • Identify and escalate risks or gaps prior to ownership transfer

Use data and support cross-functional working

  • Monitor performance through reports and dashboards and provide clear operational insights

  • Ensure accurate system updates (including ActiveH and related systems)

  • Work collaboratively with Asset Management, Housing, Development and other teams

  • Support a proactive, “no surprises” approach to service delivery and risk management

Key Skills and Competencies

  • Significant experience in property services, housing maintenance, repairs, voids or a related field

  • Experience managing or supervising teams, including performance management and staff development

  • Strong understanding of responsive repairs, contractor management and resident-facing service delivery

  • Practical knowledge of building defects, inspection standards and repair specifications

  • Ability to identify risks and escalate technical or operational issues appropriately

  • Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and decision-making skills

  • Ability to analyse performance data and drive service improvement

  • Good IT skills, including housing or asset management systems

  • Full driving licence and willingness to travel nationally

  • Fluent English, written and spoken

Desirable

  • Experience working within an Approved Housing Body, local authority or housing association

  • Relevant technical, construction, surveying or property qualification

  • Knowledge of Irish housing standards and regulatory requirements

  • Experience with damp and mould, defects management, contractor performance or new home handover

  • Experience using housing management systems such as ActiveH

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