Maintenance Multi Skilled Carpenter - Luton, United Kingdom - Response Personnel

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Luton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are currently recruiting for a Permanent Maintenance Multi Skilled Carpenter.

You'll play an important role carrying out day-to-day, repairs, void works, cyclical and planned maintenance activities. You will provide support in analysing and improving the processes, and work to improve quality, productivity, and efficiency.

You willspecialise in providing with carpentry and joinery services and support the maintenance team in providing a quality maintenance service and an excellent customer service for our client's customers.

These are some of the things you will be responsible for in your role:

Perform all day-to-day maintenance activities as required.
Responsible for layout, installation, repairing, finishing, and maintaining various structures and fixtures working with building materials (most often wood).
Build/install window frames, doors, staircases and fences. Going to selected retailors and obtaining the materials you require for the works.
Where possible a company van may be provided to you for work purposes only.
Work unsupervised in occupied/unoccupied premises, alone or with maintenance team or external contractors, depending upon the nature of works required.
Communicate with maintenance team, customers and external contractors and advising on repair options and fault diagnosis.
Install kitchens and bathrooms including material preparation and handling.
Responsible for the maintenance of all tools/equipment and company vehicle.
Ensure all work is undertaken in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.
Attend emergency situations outside normal working hours, if necessary.
Ensure at the end of each day you contact the maintenance team to update.
Be responsible for works that you have undertaken in Voids and other properties.
Update knowledge by participating in training opportunities as required by the business.
Understand and follow policies and procedures always, including Health and Safety, Fairness and Lone Working.
Take responsibility for undertaking the appropriate level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check every 3 years, updating your manager of any changes in your status.

You may be asked to achieve additional objectives and tasks in order to respond to the needs of the developing service, as part of your own personal development or as the role evolves.

About you
You will play an important role and both now and as we develop and grow.

Our client is searching for innovative ways to enable as many people as possible to benefit from our limited housing resource.

We need a driven person to join our team of like-mindedindividuals who are committed to meeting the needs of our customers through delivery of a high-quality services.

You will be a rare individual who is capable of displaying team work yet capable of lone working when needed.

You'll be willing to go the extra mile to get the job done

The table below details the essential and desirable qualifications, knowledge, experience, and skills you will need to perform in the role successfully.

Our selection process will be based on assessing you against this criterion and how you fit with therequired behaviours and values.

The behaviour and values particularly relevant to this role are detailed in the following section _"About Your Journey With Us"_

Essential

Desirable / Added Value

Qualifications/certificates

Educated to 'O' Level/GCSE standard in English and Mathematics or equivalent.
NVQ Level 2, Advanced Construction Award or similar accreditation in building maintenance work e.g. joinery/carpentry, electrical, gas or plumbing
HNC/HND Building or equivalent
NVQ Level 3 in carpentry

Knowledge/ Experience

Knowledge of Building Regulations or other statutory authority regulations.
Experience of working as a multiskilled tradesperson with experience in Plumbing, patch repair, tiling, plastering repairs, light groundworks such as installing fence panels, flooring repairs, drylining, ironmongery repairs etc.
You will be expected to have substantial experience within domestic carpentry/joinery
Experience in installing Kitchen & bathroom fittings
Diagnosing damp and recommending repairs
Experience of working in a social housing environment
Any other secondary skills

Skills