Joiner

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

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

Annual leave 27-32 days

37-hour week

LGPS pension

Job summary

Together Housing is seeking a Joiner to join our Repairs and Maintenance team, covering the Calderdale area. You will provide joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties with a customer service driven approach.

The role offers a starting salary of £33,758, a company van, 27 days annual leave (rising to 32), and a 37-hour week across five days with some Saturday work and an occasional on-call rota.

Qualifications

• Experience carrying out joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties.
• Ability to work across the Calderdale area and meet service standards.
• Full Criminal Disclosure will be required on offer.

Responsibilities

• Carry out all types of Joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties in accordance with job tickets, opti-time appointment slots, specifications and contract drawings, to good practice and Building Regulations.
• To work with a Right First Time ethos, completing repairs in one visit where practicable with quality workmanship.
• Organise work to minimise lost time and pro-actively adjust allocations as needed.
• Participate in standby or call-out rota as required by management.
• Diagnose and undertake repairs, obtaining approvals for more expensive or extended jobs.
• Work to high workmanship standards as part of a team to ensure efficient use of time, materials and resources.
• Covering the Calderdale area.
• Starting salary £33,758.
• Company van provided.
• 27 days annual leave rising to 32 after 5 years plus bank holidays.
• 37 hour week across five days (Mon–Sat) with varying start/end times.
• Participation in call-out rota once every eight weeks.
• Flexible working environment with family-friendly policies.
• LGPS pension scheme.

Skills

Joinery repairs

Customer service

Job description

We are looking for aJoiner to join our Repairs and Maintenance team, to cover the Calderdale area. As aJoineryou 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

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, safe working procedures and as part of a team to ensure the most efficient use of time, materials and resources etc.
  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, atypical working weekmay 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
• Attractive pension schemes - including Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

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.