Maintenance / Fabric Technician

Arcus Solutions; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning facilities maintenance provider is seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician/Fabric Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves delivering high-quality maintenance services across multiple sites, ensuring client satisfaction and asset uptime. With opportunities for personal and professional growth, you will utilize your diverse skills in building fabric maintenance while enjoying a supportive work environment. The company values individual development, offering extensive training and career progression opportunities. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a varied and rewarding role, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Van with personal use option

Fuel card

Life Assurance

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Training Sponsorship Scheme

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Discounts at B&Q/Trade Point

Discounts at Nuffield Fitness Centres

Qualifications

• Time served experience across multiple trades in building fabric.
• Experience working in a customer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventive and reactive maintenance services.
• Ensure client sites are fully maintained and operating at full potential.

Skills

Building Fabric Maintenance

Customer Service

Communication Skills

Health & Safety Awareness

Handheld IT Equipment

Education

NVQ in Building Trade

City and Guilds

BTEC in Building Trade

Tools

Smartphone

Tools

PPE

Job description

Do you live in or around the Manchester area?

Are you an experienced Maintenance Technician / Fabric Engineer?

If so we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting in our facilities maintenance team, where you will be delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our multi-site clients.

• Salary: £29,829 or £33,272 per annum, depending on experience
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Additional earnings available through overtime
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

If you have a full valid UK driver's license, time served experience of multiple trades, and want to progress your career with an award-winning FM provider then read on .

You'll be responsible for ensuring clients sites within your area are fully maintained and operating at full potential.

As an Arcus Fabric Specialist, you'll enjoy working in a varied environment. You'll be out and about on the road traveling to client locations throughout your area, delivering a high level of repair works and rectifying any defects to ensure our clients receive a high-quality service.

You will assist in the delivery of excellent customer service resulting in professional results, asset uptime, first time fix and quality workmanship.

We need you to come with experience of working in a building fabric / maintenance role previously, and with the skills and expertise to confidently and independently, carry out as many of the below tasks as possible:

• Patch Plastering/Rendering
• Protection where required
• Carpentry works
• Various floor coverings
• Wall Tiling
• General Repair work
• Changing lights and locks

Whilst we don't need you to know it all, we do need you to have varied experience across a mix of the above trades. At Arcus we are passionate about retaining our top talent and love to promote from within, giving you the opportunity to either gain qualifications and/or experience in other areas of the business if that's what you want.

To be successful you will have:

Essential:

• Time served experience across a mix of multiple trades, ideally in a building fabric role.
• Valid UK driver's license
• Experience working within a customer facing environment
• Confident using handheld IT Equipment for managing works and documentation
• Strong communication skills and work ethic.
• Awareness and knowledge of health & safety.

Desirable:

• NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC in a building trade
• Experience working within a maintenance remit for a multi-site retail client.

Other benefits:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%.
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

Other Information:

• The role will involve working 40 hrs per week, Monday to Friday
• The role will also involve working 1 in 4 weeks on call

At Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in-house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross-skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self- delivery capability.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed, please submit your application by clicking on the 'apply' button.