Joiner

Together Housing; Aberford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

27 days annual leave rising to 32

Bank holidays

Job summary

Together Housing is seeking a Joiner to join our Repairs and Maintenance team to cover the Calderdale area. You will provide all types of joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties, delivering a customer service driven repair and maintenance service.

Starting salary £33,758, with a company van and 37 hours per week across Monday to Saturday. The role includes participation in a call-out rota and a flexible, family-friendly working environment.

Qualifications

• Carry out all types of Joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties per job tickets and specifications.
• Aim to complete repairs on first visit with good workmanship.
• Organise work to minimise downtime and re-allocate tasks as needed.
• Participate in overtime or standby/call-out rota when required.
• Diagnose and undertake repairs with initiative and obtain approvals for costly/longer jobs.
• Maintain high standards in line with service specifications and safety procedures.

Responsibilities

• Carry out all joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties.
• Work to right-first-time standards and quality workmanship.
• Organise workload to minimise downtime and re-allocate when needed.
• Participate in standby or call-out rota as required.
• Diagnose repairs and obtain approvals for more expensive or longer jobs.
• Maintain high workmanship standards and safe working practices.

Skills

Joinery repairs

Customer service

Time management

Teamwork

Job description

We are looking for a Joiner to join our Repairs and Maintenance team, to cover the Calderdale area. As a Joiner you will provide all types of joinery repairs, to tenanted and vacant properties, with a customer service quality driven repair and maintenance service.

Together Housing Group: We are one of the largest housing associations in the North of England, managing over 38,000 homes across the North of England. We are a non-profit organisation, meaning any money we make is invested back into the company for the benefit of our residents and local communities.

Diversity & Inclusion: As an organisation we are committed to having a Diverse and Inclusive workforce. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates with any of the nine protected characteristics. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Further information can be found at this link - Equality and diversity - Together Housing Group

Requirements

Outline of Key responsibilities of the Joiner/ Joinery Technician…

• To carry out all types of Joinery repairs to both tenanted and vacant properties in accordance with job tickets, opti-time appointment slots, specifications and contract drawings, to good practice, Building Regulations etc as appropriate and applicable.
• To carry out work with an ethos of “Right First Time” always completing a repair where practicable in one visit, with good quality workmanship and good standard of performance.
• To organise your work to minimise lost or non-productive time, highlighting pro-actively if you have too much / too little work so that work can be re-allocated, extra work allocated etc as appropriate.
• To assist in addressing the peaks and troughs in workload by working overtime and at other times when requested by prior arrangement with your manager. To participate in a stand‑by or call‑out rota.
• To use your initiative to diagnose and undertake a repair which may be different from the job required or where the job required was of a locate fault type nature. Obtaining approval beforehand as appropriate where the job is more expensive than anticipated, will take much longer than anticipated etc.
• To work to a consistently high standard of workmanship in line with service specification, service standards and safe working procedures …

In return we are offering the successful candidate in the Joiner role…

• Covering the Calderdale area
• Starting salary £33,758
• Company van
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 over 5 years’ service)+bank holidays
• You will work a total of 37 hours per week, scheduled between 08:00 and 19:30 across any five days from Monday to Saturday. The exact schedule will depend on business needs at the time. However, to give an idea, a typical working week may be Monday to Thursday from 08:00 to 16:00 and Friday from 08:00 to 15:30. Please note that this is subject to change based on business requirements.
• Required to participate in the call-out rota for one week once every eight weeks.
• A flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies

Due to the nature of the role involving work with vulnerable members of society, this post is subject to a Full Criminal Disclosure, which will be carried out when a conditional offer is made.