Multi-Skilled Operative (Carpenter)

B3 Living; Broxbourne; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in Hertfordshire seeks a Multi-Skilled Operative with a strong carpentry background to provide high-quality maintenance in customer homes. This permanent role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package while contributing positively to the community's housing needs.

Benefits

27 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Cross-organisational bonus scheme

Up to 12% pension contribution

Life assurance cover

Discount vouchers

Car loans and cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Strong multi-trade background with carpentry.
• Experience with UPVC/composite door and window maintenance.
• Full, valid driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Repair and replace doors and windows.
• Conduct locksmithing and repair staircases.
• Maintain and replenish van stock.

Skills

Multi-trade experience

Health and Safety training

Customer service skills

Job description

Multi-Skilled Operative (Carpenter)

Based in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
Permanent, full-time, 37 hours per week
Salary: £33,968 - £37,742 per annum

We have an exciting opportunity for a customer-focused multi-trade professional with a carpentry background to step into a key role with our dedicated organisation.

In this role, you’ll work in and around our customers’ homes to ensure our properties are maintained to a high standard. Covering a range of maintenance duties, you’ll repair and replace doors and windows, install fences, conduct locksmithing, repair staircases, floors and kitchen units and maintain and replenish your van stock. Liaising with a range of customers, you’ll ensure a first-class service every time.

We’re looking for someone with…

- Strong multi-trade experience with a carpentry background
- Comprehensive experience in UPVC/composite door and window maintenance
- Health and Safety training
- A full, valid driving licence

Please note, this role may involve lifting and moving heavy objects, tools and materials as well as working in confined spaces and at heights.

You will also be required to have a basic criminal record (DBS) check, which we will pay for.

We’re a social business, based in Hoddesdon and across southeast Hertfordshire, helping local people by renting or selling affordable homes. We offer services designed to help our customers live comfortably in their homes and we work to keep our buildings and estates maintained, offering support when money becomes an issue or when people get older. Our mission is to make a sustainable, positive change to the housing crisis for our customers and communities.

We enjoy a benefits package that offers something for everyone, including…

- 27 days’ holiday per year plus bank holiday (pro rata for part-time colleagues)
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- Cross-organisational bonus scheme
- Up to 12% pension contribution
- Life assurance cover
- Funded health cash plan or subsidised private medical insurance
- Discount vouchers
- Enhanced family leave
- Range of special leave
- Car loans, cycle to work and electric car lease scheme

The closing date for this vacancy is 29 June 2025.

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means that we offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Other organisations may call this role Multi-Trade Operative, Carpentry Technician, Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Engineer, Technician, or Maintenance Operative.

All our vacancies are open to flexible working arrangements, something we are really proud of. The extent to which flexible working is possible will vary between jobs according to the needs of the business and our customers. We believe in the benefits of a diverse workforce and strongly welcome applications from those currently under-represented in the organisation, including LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual), and people under age 30.

So, if you’re looking for a new role as a Multi-Skilled Operative, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.