Ground Worker/Fencer

Places for People; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

35 days annual leave (including bank-h

Overtime opportunities

Core working hours 08:00-16:30 Mon-Fri

Tools, uniform, iPad, mobile phone and

Job summary

Places for People is hiring a Maintenance Technician to carry out repairs in social housing and communal areas. You’ll work in occupied and void properties, supporting kitchens, bathrooms and boilers, while maintaining health and safety standards.

Role includes travelling in a company van, independent or team-based work, and maintaining high-quality, compliant workmanship. Successful candidates are home-based in the PE area with a valid UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Experience carrying out general repairs, ideally within social housing.
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and meet deadlines.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Based within the PE postcode area.

Responsibilities

• Carry out general repairs in properties and communal areas.
• Complete work in occupied and void properties including cleaning and maintenance.
• Support installation work such as kitchens, bathrooms, and boilers.
• Work to specifications and ensure health and safety compliance.
• Collaborate with supervisors, schedulers, and wider teams to meet deadlines.
• Record work activity and maintain accurate documentation.

Skills

General repairs

Time management

Customer interaction

Organisation

Job description

We're hiring a Maintenance Technician, offering a company van and consistent work within your Community. Places for People is one of the UK's largest housing providers and is proud to be recognised as one of the UK's Top 50 Best Workplaces. We are committed to creating inclusive Communities and improving Customers' lives. You'll be working locally, making a real difference to People's homes and the neighbourhoods we operate in.

What You'll Get

• Use of a company van with fuel card
• 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays) with options to buy and sell leave
• Overtime opportunities available
• Core working hours of 08:00-16:30 Monday-Friday
• Tools, uniform, iPad, mobile phone and PPE provided
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Permanent, secure employment
• Consistent workload within your dedicated area
• A bonus scheme for all Colleagues at up to 2%
• Death in Service benefit
• Sick pay

What You'll Be Doing

• Carrying out general repairs in properties and communal areas
• Completing work in both occupied and void properties including cleaning and maintenance
• Supporting installation work such as kitchens, bathrooms, and boilers
• Working to specifications and ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements
• Collaborating with supervisors, schedulers, and wider teams to meet deadlines
• Recording work activity and maintaining accurate documentation

What Your Day Looks Like

• A structured schedule covering repairs and maintenance work
• Travelling between jobs in your company van
• Working independently or with a team of other tradespeople
• Engaging directly with Customers in their homes
• Completing work efficiently while maintaining quality and compliance standards

Where you'll work

• Occupied homes
• Empty (void) properties
• Communal areas within housing schemes
• Environments involving vulnerable Customers

Essential Criteria (you need to meet all of these to be shortlisted)

• Experience carrying out general repairs, ideally within social housing
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and meet deadlines#
• Full UK driving licence
• Due to the area this patch covers, you will need to be based within the PE postcode

Nice To Have (not Essential)

• Experience supporting installations such as kitchens, bathrooms, or boilers
• Experience working within a social housing environment

Our hiring process

We're moving quickly and aim to interview as soon as possible for suitable candidates. If successful, when you join us you'll start an induction programme, which covers our systems, how we do things here and anything else you'll need to know.

Important information

This role will require a Basic DBS check

You may be required to work across surrounding areas

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.

We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

Armed Forces

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Disability Confident

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview. The Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for NI) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has sa substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do daily activities.

Neurodivergent

Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn’t allow them to self-advocate. Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.