Joiner

Together Housing Group; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

An established housing association is seeking a skilled Joiner/Joinery Technician to join their Repairs and Maintenance team in Wakefield. This role involves providing high-quality joinery repairs across various properties, ensuring customer satisfaction with a focus on efficiency and quality. The successful candidate will enjoy a flexible working environment, comprehensive benefits including generous annual leave, and opportunities for professional development. If you are passionate about delivering excellent service and possess the necessary qualifications, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference in the community.

Benefits

Use of company van

27 days annual leave

Flexible working environment

Professional development training

Attractive pension scheme

Financial health benefits

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Joiner/Joinery Technician.
• Full manual UK driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Carry out joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties.
• Organize work to minimize non-productive time.

Skills

Joinery

Customer Service

Problem Solving

Education

City and Guilds Advanced Craft Certificate In Carpentry & Joinery

NVQ Level 2

Tools

Hand Tools

Power Tools

Job description

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We are looking for aJoiner/ Joinery Technicianto join the Repairs and Maintenance team in Wakefield covering the Wakefield, Castleford, Pontefract and Barnsley areas. 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.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.

We are looking for aJoiner/ Joinery Technicianto join the Repairs and Maintenance team in Wakefield covering the Wakefield, Castleford, Pontefract and Barnsley areas. 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.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.

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, safe working procedures and as part of a team to ensure the most efficient use of time, materials and resources etc.

We are looking for someone who has...

• Full manual UK drivers licence

• Experience of working competently in all disciplines normally expected of a qualifiedJoiner/ Joinery Technicianalong with other associated building disciplines as required and as appropriate

• Relevant qualification and experience, e.g. City and Guilds Advanced Craft Certificate In Carpentry & Joinery or equivalent (NVQ Level 2)

• Experience of working in a customer service environment

• Experience of maximising number of jobs completed and repairs completed in one visit.
  
  

Benefits

In return, we are offering the successful candidate in the Joiner role:

• Covering the Wakefield, Castleford, Pontefract and Barnsley areas.
• Starting salary: £31,166 per annum
• Use of company van
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 over 5 years' service) + bank holidays
• A flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
• You will be working, 37 hours per week between the hours of 08.00-19.30 any 5 days from 6 (Monday-Saturday) with a minimum of 30 minutes unpaid break
• Wide range of professional, and personal development training opportunities
• Attractive pension scheme
• A range of financial, health and lifestyle benefits including cycle to work, vehicle leasing and financial advice
• To view the full range of our benefits click on the Employee Benefits Link

THG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient numbers of applicants are received. Therefore, please apply without delay!

Please ensure you fully answer the questions on the application form.

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

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