Maintenance Assistant - Tuesdays to Saturdays (New Maker Yards, Manchester)

Get Living London Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Maintenance Assistant for a full-time role in Manchester. The position focuses on maintaining high standards in the housing community, resolving issues promptly, and ensuring resident satisfaction. Candidates should have experience in a maintenance role and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a Maintenance role - essential.
• Experience working in a real estate/build to rent environment - desirable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out repairs and maintenance for homes.
• Liaise with Maintenance Supervisor and contractors.
• Painting and decorating as needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Numeracy skills

Relationship building

Job description

Maintenance Assistant - Tuesdays to Saturdays (New Maker Yards, Manchester)

This is afull-time role at 40 hours per week, working Tuesdays through to Saturdays (Sundays and Mondays off).

Overall Purpose

Our story begins in 2013: Get Living started by creating its own industry, ‘Build to Rent’. Although we are now a much more mature company, our entrepreneurial spirit as strong as ever. We create brilliant, big-city neighbourhoods, each unique and compelling in their own right. Our vibrant communities connect people and create lasting social, environmental and commercial value.

The Maintenance Assistant will be working as part of the wider Maintenance team to ensure that the 821 homes within New Maker Yards are in good, operating condition at all times. The Maintenance Assistant will be responsible for resolving maintenance issues in a timely manner, contributing to the wider resident experience at Get Living.

Key Relationships

Internal: Neighbourhood Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, and wider New Maker Yards team
External:Residents, customers, third party suppliers and contractors

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Work with the full-time Maintenance Supervisor and Maintenance Team Leader and liaise with technicians and contractors.
• To carry out any necessary repairs and maintenance to ensure the homes are presented to the highest possible standard when turning them around between tenancies.
• Painting and decorating.
• General ad hoc reactive works within occupied apartments.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience of working in a Maintenance role - essential.
• Experience working in a real estate/build to rent environment - desirable.
  
  
• High level of attention to detail.
• Great people and communication skills to interact with residents.
• Numeracy skills to work out surface areas and quantities.
• Strong relationship building skills.

Get Living Values
Actively champion our company values of Respect, Integrity, Togetherness, Excellence, and Innovation.

Note - this is a summary of the main duties of this position. The Company reserves the right to require the role-holder to undertake such additional tasks or duties as may be within their capabilities and abide by all reasonable rules and instructions given by the Company.

Get Living Commitment

Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Health and Safety
Get Living is responsible for providing a safe and healthy environment for all employees, residents, commercial occupiers, service providers, and visitors who may be affected by its undertakings across its portfolio.
We are committed to continual improvement of performance, recognising the importance of investing in the health and welfare of our Employees by providing a physical and social working environment which is conducive to maintaining a healthy, fit and highly motivated workforce.
We encourage a positive health and safety culture by actively promoting occupational health and safety through the provision of information, training, instruction and supervision. Through ongoing consultation with employees, partners and suppliers everyone is enthusiastically involved in managing risk and ensuring that our sites are a safe place to live, work and visit.

ESG
Get Living is committed to leading and promoting ESG initiatives as well as identifying ways to improve sustainability goals.

Maintenance Assistant - Tuesdays to Saturdays (New Maker Yards, Manchester)

Experience

Experience in a previous Maintenance role essential