Maintenance Assistant

Moore Green Recruitment Ltd; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Maintenance Assistant for a retirement village in Milton Keynes. The role involves conducting maintenance tasks, providing handy-person services, and managing void properties. Ideal candidates should possess numeracy and literacy skills, along with relevant qualifications like City & Guilds or NVQs in maintenance-related fields.

Qualifications

• Courses in health and safety are very useful.
• Plumbing, plastering, carpentry, and general maintenance knowledge are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Carry out user tests and preventive maintenance.
• Provide handy-person services for residents.
• Manage void properties and ensure maintenance tasks.

Skills

Numeracy skills

Literacy skills

Computer skills

Education

City & Guilds

BTECs

NVQs

Job description

Overview

Maintenance Assistant required to work at retirement village in Milton Keynes.

Responsibilities

• Carry out user tests, cyclical, preventive and repairs maintenance, and arrange access for contractors to carry out maintenance.
• Carry out a handy-person 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 computer skills are essential.