Building Care and Maintenance Assistant

Trident Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused housing organization in Birmingham is seeking a Building Care and Maintenance Assistant. The role involves maintaining safety, cleanliness, and operational efficiency of housing estates while ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates should have experience in building safety inspections, emergency maintenance, and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability. Competitive benefits include 34 days of annual leave and flexible working options.

Benefits

34 days annual leave

Birthday leave

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Employee Assistance programme

Qualifications

• Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritize tasks.
• Strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
• Experience in emergency response and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct building safety inspections and ensure compliance.
• Audit contractors to uphold quality standards.
• Respond to emergency maintenance issues.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Building safety inspections

Contractor management

Emergency response

IT proficiency

Job description

About the role

We are currently recruiting a Building Care and Maintenance Assistant to join our team, focusing on maintaining the safety, cleanliness, and operational efficiency of our housing estates. This role is pivotal in ensuring the well‑being of our residents and upholding compliance with health and safety regulations. We are seeking a self‑motivated individual who can work to high standards and deliver services tailored to resident needs, emphasizing best practice and value.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct intensified building safety inspections and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Audit contractors regularly to uphold quality standards and project timelines.
• Provide proactive support and advocacy for vulnerable residents.
• Respond promptly to emergency maintenance issues to maintain a safe environment.
• Implement environmental sustainability initiatives and maintain estate cleanliness.
• Foster community engagement through regular events and feedback sessions.
• Ensure regulatory compliance through training and adherence to standards.
• Produce detailed reports on audits, inspections, and maintenance activities.
• Optimize resource management to minimize waste and reduce costs.
• Drive continuous improvement through quality assurance processes and resident feedback.

The benefits

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• Birthday leave
• New Home leave
• Life assurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance programme
• Employee Wellbeing programme
• Flexible Working options

About You

The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and a thorough understanding of building safety inspections, contractor management, and resident support. You should have experience in emergency response and maintenance, as well as a strong commitment to environmental sustainability. Additionally, you should be able to manage a varied workload effectively, prioritize tasks, and demonstrate proficiency in IT and housing management applications.

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovationfor up to8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.

The Group consists of

• Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
• Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering person‑centred care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person‑centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people