Property Maintenance Technician

Right There; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cycle to work scheme

People's Pension

Annual leave 210 hours increasing to 8

Option to buy/sell annual leave

Job summary

Right There is seeking a Maintenance Technician to join the Property team in Edinburgh. You will perform planned and reactive maintenance across tenanted and empty properties, using broad skills in electrical, plumbing, joinery, and decorating to ensure safety and quality.

Highlights include testing safety systems (fire alarms, emergency lighting, legionella checks), logging activities, and adhering to Health & Safety regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance, engineering or construction environments.
• Sound understanding of health and safety regulations.
• Ability to plan and organise workload with competing demands and deadlines.
• Full valid driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance across tenanted and empty properties.
• Perform electrical, plumbing and joinery tasks including replacements and repairs.
• Test safety systems (fire alarms, legionella etc.) and report health and safety concerns.
• Log time, materials and costs and maintain records.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Health & safety

Time management

Driving licence

Mobile tech proficiency

Tools

Electrical tools

Plumbing tools

Job description

About The Role

Are you a practical, solutions-focused maintenance professional who wants your work to make a genuine difference? Join Right There and help us create safe, welcoming and well-maintained homes for people across Edinburgh and the wider property portfolio.

Our Property team is responsible for the management of a portfolio of over 600 properties varying in size throughout Glasgow and reaching into Edinburgh and the team consists of general administration, maintenance workers, technicians and painters.

As Maintenance Technician in our Property team, you will complete planned and reactive work across tenanted and empty properties. Using your broad practical skills—including joinery, basic electrical work, plumbing and decorating—you will help ensure every property meets high quality, safety and compliance standards. You will also support testing programmes such as PAT, water temperature, fire alarm, emergency lighting and legionella checks. This is a new role created due to growth of our property portfolio.

Your role

• Ensure that maintenance in void and tenanted properties is to a high standard and meets all compliance regulations
• Ensure all Right There properties are a safe and functioning environment for our team and the people we support
• Carry out electrical and plumbing repairs such as replacing light switches, broken sockets, leaking taps and toilets, replacing lights including pendants, checking the functioning of boilers that require top ups and resets.
• Carry out general joinery and building works such as renewing worktops and kitchen units, replacing door locks including forced entry, repairing wardrobes and chests of drawers and fitting window restrictors
• Install white goods, mainly cookers and washing machines
• Carry out testing of fire alarms, water temperature, emergency lighting and legionnaires testing
• Report any health and safety concerns or incidents using the reporting mechanisms in place
• Log all time, materials and consumables used in carrying out duties
• Comply with relevant Health & Safety legislation

We’re looking for someone that can demonstrate work experience in a maintenance, engineering or construction environment. You will have a sound understanding of health and safety also have the ability to plan and organise your workload with competing demands and deadlines. You will be confident using mobile technology to manage your workload.

A full valid driving license is an essential requirement.

Our offer

• Your normal working hours are 35 per week, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm
• Your main place of work is Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh, EH5 with regular travel to property locations
• Annual leave entitlement of 210 hours (equivalent to 6 weeks) pro rata per year in the first year rising to 280 hours (equivalent to 8 weeks) pro rata per year in the second.
• You will be automatically enrolled into the People's Pension provided you meet the auto-enrolment criteria
• Cycle to work scheme
• Option to purchase and sell annual leave

About Us

We are a charity that recently celebrated 200 years of standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year we supported almost 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love.