Operative - Loughton, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Loughton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Maintaining the homes of your area, making a daily difference. Be a Multi Trade Operative with Kier & build a career you have control over.

Fire Safety Operative / Fire Stopping Operative - Carpentry bias

Location:
Mobile across London with office base location of Loughton

Business Area:
Kier Places - Housing Maintenance - Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) Works

Contract:
Permanent, full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Kier Places are recruiting today for a
Fire Safety Operative with Carpentry/Joinery bias, where your role will be key to supporting the delivery of a Housing Maintenance Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) works servicing solution for our prestigious client, One Housing Group.

You will be providing planned & reactive maintenance in social housing residential properties managed by the housing association to ensure properties meet all Kier, client & government statutory requirements and regulations to the highest of standards.

Key Responsibilities

As a
Fire Safety Operative, you will be responsible for undertaking all manner of installation, maintenance & repair work in domestic properties, to a high level "right first time" basis in a cost-effective manner.

Fire stopping works include, and are not limited to, installation, maintenance & repair of:

fire batt & mastic, firestop putty pads, fire & smoke curtains, firestop compound, fire penetration sealing, fire partitioning & compartmentation, fire doors & other building fabric, pipes, linear joints and openings.

Within the fire stopping works, you'll be expected to undertake making-good works to leave the residences in a condition of the highest standard, which will include general 'handyperson' tasks such plaster patching, plumbing, and other minor repairs & maintenance within your ability.

What do we need from you?

You'll bring with you a wealth of experience covering the variety of building maintenance & repair work to effectively conduct these works, and you should have experience in a similar role on social housing / housing maintenance / property maintenance contracts.

It would be an advantage in this role if you have BM Trada, Asbestos Awareness or other fire stopping & safety related certificates, and an appropriate CSCS card.

Due to the nature of this position, you should have a full driving licence, and be happy travelling across the region to different sites.

Who are we?

Kier Housing Maintenance (HM) have long standing partnership agreements with housing associations, local authorities and private landlords to conduct responsive repairs and planned maintenance across various sites.

Our commitment to our clients has resulted in us being shortlisted for Contractor of the Year at the UK Housing Awards 2020.

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a matched pension scheme up to 5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
Kier's Green Car Scheme
24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover
A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

**Be great in a company built on doing good. Join us today as a Fire Safety Operative.