Building Fabric Specialist

Arcus Solutions; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities maintenance provider in the UK is seeking a Building Fabric Maintenance specialist to deliver high-quality repair works across various client sites. You will be responsible for ensuring maintenance of buildings, performing tasks like patch plastering, carpentry, and general repairs. Applicants should have experience in multiple trades, a valid UK driver's license, and strong communication skills. The role offers competitive salary, flexible benefits, and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Van and fuel card

Smartphone and tools provided

Group personal pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Qualifications

• Valid UK driver's license
• Time served experience in a building fabric role
• Experience with various trades such as carpentry, tiling, and general repairs

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventive and reactive maintenance services
• Ensure client sites are fully maintained and operating at full potential
• Perform various building fabric tasks as needed

Skills

Time served experience across multiple trades

Strong communication skills

Experience working within a customer facing environment

Confident using handheld IT Equipment

Knowledge of health & safety

Education

NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC in a building trade

Job description

Do you live in or around the Blackpool area?

Are you an experienced Building Fabric Maintenance specialist?

If so, we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting in our facilities maintenance team, where you will be delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our multi-site clients.

• Salary: £33,272 per annum
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Additional earnings available through enhanced overtime rates
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

If you have a full valid UK driver's license, time served experience of multiple trades, and want to progress your career with an award-winning FM provider then read on.

You will be responsible for ensuring clients sites within your area are fully maintained and operating at full potential.

As an Arcus Fabric Specialist, you'll enjoy working in a varied environment. You'll be out and about on the road traveling to client locations throughout your area, delivering a high level of repair works and rectifying any defects to ensure our clients receive a high-quality service.

You will assist in the delivery of excellent customer service resulting in professional results, asset uptime, first time fix and quality workmanship.

We need you to come with experience of working in a building fabric role previously, and with the skills and expertise to confidently and independently, carry out as many of the below tasks as possible:

• Patch Plastering/Rendering
• Protection where required
• Carpentry works
• Various floor coverings
• Wall Tiling
• General Repair work
• Changing lights and locks

Whilst we don't need you to know it all, we do need you to have varied experience across a mix of the above trades. At Arcus we are passionate about retaining our top talent and love to promote from within, giving you the opportunity to either gain qualifications and/or experience in other areas of the business if that's what you want.

To be successful you will have:

Essential:

• Time served experience across a mix of multiple trades, ideally in a building fabric role
• Valid UK driver's license
• Experience working within a customer facing environment
• Confident using handheld IT Equipment for managing works and documentation
• Strong communication skills and work ethic.
• Awareness and knowledge of health & safety.

Desirable:

• NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC in a building trade
• Experience working within a maintenance remit for a multi-site retail client.

Other benefits:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%.
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the‑art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

Other Information:

• The role will involve working 40 hrs per week, Monday to Friday
• The role will also involve working 1 in 4 weeks on call

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed, please submit your application by clicking on the 'apply' button.