Maintenance Assistant

Moore Green Recruitment Ltd; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Maintenance Assistant for a retirement village in Stoke Gifford. The candidate will perform maintenance duties, including user tests, preventive maintenance, and provide handyperson services for residents. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and skills in plumbing, carpentry, and general maintenance. This role offers an opportunity to enhance skills while ensuring resident satisfaction in a communal living environment.

Qualifications

• Qualifications in City & Guilds, BTECs, or NVQs are beneficial.
• Courses in plumbing, plastering, carpentry, and general maintenance are valuable.
• Essential skills include numeracy, literacy, and computer proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Carry out user tests and preventive maintenance.
• Provide handyperson services for residents.
• Undertake preventive maintenance in apartments and communal areas.
• Manage void properties and conduct water quality checks.
• Work with contractors to improve system knowledge.
• Record and handle repair requests.

Skills

General maintenance

Plumbing

Carpentry

Health and safety knowledge

Numeracy skills

Literacy skills

Computer skills

Education

City & Guilds

BTECs

NVQs

Job description

Overview

Maintenance Assistant required to work at retirement village in Stoke Gifford.

Responsibilities

• To carry out user tests, cyclical, preventive and repairs maintenance, and arrange access for contractors to carry out maintenance.
• Carry out a handyperson service for the residents, as directed by the Cluster Manager. Anything from picture hanging to assembling flat-pack furniture.
• Undertake preventive maintenance duties in the resident's apartments and in the communal areas.
• Be proactive in the management of void properties, ensure water quality checks and general repairs are undertaken.
• Work with contractors on site to improve own knowledge of systems and to ensure that they are working to risk assessments provided.
• Record repair requests and defects.

Qualifications

• Qualifications that will help candidates are City & Guilds, BTECs, and NVQs.
• Courses in health and safety, plumbing, plastering, carpentry, and general maintenance are all very useful.
• Numeracy, literacy and computers skills are essential.