Multi Skilled Operative

Multi Skilled Operative

Leicester

Full Time, Permanent, 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary up to £32,025 per annum, plus, company van & fuel card

Our housing teams provide rapid response and planned maintenance services for local authorities and registered providers and deliver in excess of 5,000 repairs every day to a growing portfolio of around 1,000,000 homes across the UK. We also provide a range of services to cover all areas of the housing sector, including regeneration, contact centre solutions, housing management, home improvement, facilities management, estate services, grounds maintenance, student accommodation and new build.

About the Role:

As a Multi Skilled Operative within our branch you will predominately work within our void and some occupied properties. The successful candidate will be part of a local team undertaking high standard Multi Trade repairs and refurbishment activities to Housing properties delivering best in class customer service and satisfying all safety, quality and cost control standards. The main duties will fire door installation, carpentry joinery, plastering, floor laying, tiling and decorating the properties.

Role Criteria:

Multi Skilled Operative with a main Trade as an experienced Carpenter & Joiner, for this position we will be looking to recruit a candidate with experience in fire door and fire safety installations and a basic skill set of other trades such as void refurbishment, painting and decorating and plumbing.
We are looking for a passionate Multi Skilled Operative to join our rapidly expanding team to work within a busy repairs / voids team environment. Reporting individual job actions from site to ensure our clients receive high levels of service and high satisfaction levels as well.

• Experience in Carpentry
• NVQ level 3 in Plumber, plastering, Joinery or Carpentry
• Experience in another 2 trades
• Must hold a Full UK Driving License
• Be a great team player as well an ability to work on your own initiative
• Excellent communication and Customer service skills

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• Company Van, Fuel Card and Uniform

To apply, follow the link below or to discuss your application further please contact Beth Dunford on beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.