Multi-Skilled Carpenter

Newport City Homes; Malpas; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Annual leave increased to 30 days

SMART working

Health & wellbeing programs

Flexible benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Hedyn is recruiting a Multi-Skilled Carpenter to carry out repairs and maintenance across residents' properties. The role involves carpentry, basic tiling, plumbing, painting, plastering, locksmith work and roofing tasks, with an emphasis on safety and quality.

You will work as part of a supportive team and may mentor apprentices, helping to deliver timely repairs in line with regulations. This role is based on-site within residential communities and offers a varied, rewarding workload.

Qualifications

• Experience in carpentry repairs in residential properties.
• Commitment to high quality and safe working practices.
• Willingness to undertake multi-skilled tasks as part of a small team.

Responsibilities

• Undertake carpentry repairs and replacements to doors, frames, stairs, windows, and locks.
• Carry out basic tiling, plumbing, and painting as required.
• Support roofing works and pest-control tasks as needed.
• Record time and materials accurately and communicate with the works supervisor.

Skills

Carpentry experience

Customer-focused

Team mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

Hand tools

Locksmith tools

Job description

About the vacancy:

Join our team as a Multi-Skilled Carpenter, carrying out a variety of repair and maintenance works across residential properties.

We're looking for someone with strong carpentry experience, a customer-focused approach, and the ability to deliver high-quality work safely and efficiently. In return, you'll enjoy a varied role, the opportunity to make a real difference to customers' homes, and the chance to be part of a supportive team.

Specifically, in the role you will:

• Undertake carpentry repairs and replacements to doors (inclusive of fire doors), door frames, PVC doors and locks, stairs, windows, and other associated tasks.
• The multi-skilling elements of the role will be inclusive of but not limited to.
• Basic tiling e.g., tiling a kitchen splash-back.
• Basic plumbing e.g., undertaking safe isolation of water and removing, replacing, and reconnecting sinks. This will involve working with copper pipework and plastic solvent weld waste.
• Trade related groundworks e.g., repairing and installing standard external fencing.
• Basic painting, which will be limited to touch up’s and making good.
• Basic plastering, which will be limited to touch up’s and making good.
• Renewing glass panes to windows and doors.
• Undertake locksmith related works. The role will involve gaining entry to properties by drilling/snapping locks, also use of a pick gun and letterbox tool and replacing locks/espags. Specifically, this element of the role will involve engagement with bodies such as Social Services, Police, South Wales Fire and Rescue and other local authority agencies.
• Undertake trade related roofing works e.g., soffit, fascia, and guttering works.
• Utilise trade knowledge and experience and support the surveying function when surveying works and subsequently raise Variation Order’s where and when required, ensuring that this is recorded accurately.
• Support with the association’s method of pest control e.g., placing netting on balconies and pigeon spikes.
• Record and report any faults to the works supervisor and follow up any outstanding repairs.
• Ensure all repairs and replacements are completed within the specified time to an acceptable standard and conform to the requirements of the current regulations.
• Drive an allocated works vehicle in line with the driver handbook, to pre-inspect, identify, and obtain the resources, materials and plant required to complete a repair to the required standard.
• Accurately record work time, materials and plant used to complete a repair ensuring maximisation of resources.
• Ensure the safe use and safe storage of any plant issued reporting any defects.
• Conduct daily safety checks of the allocated works vehicle and record the findings in the appropriate manner.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across the business internally and externally.
• Mentor, develop and monitor apprentices within the team, provide feedback to line management on performance.
• To always work in a safe and appropriate manner to meet the duties and responsibilities within the Health and Safety policies and procedures of the association.

(Please refer to the attached recruitment pack for more information.)

We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it’s important to us that our people feel the same way.

As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential.

We are still at the beginning of our journey. Join us to help shape it.

Enhanced Pension Scheme:

We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%. You are able to determine the level of contributions that is right for you.

Enhanced Annual Leave:

You’ll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase gradually to 30 days following 3 years’ service.

SMART Working (dependent on role):

You’re trusted to manage your time to work in a way that meets the needs of our customers, colleagues and communities.

At Hedyn, we believe that ‘work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.’

Health and Wellbeing:

We have many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption.

Flexible Benefits

We have a flexible benefits package that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards the benefits that suit them. There is a wide range of benefits available to choose from including Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, the option to have your professional memberships paid for, and Electric Vehicles.

Development:

We offer many professional and personal development options such as sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.

We want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.