Multi Skilled Carpenter (FRA)
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The vacancy
Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 20 February 2023
Interview Date: 28 February 2023
We have an exciting opportunity for a Multi Skilled Carpenter to join our Projects team. In this role, you will carry out a wide range of building, repairs, maintenance, fire safety tasks, installation and refurbishment works, predominantly in Carpentry but also in other trades.
Main job responsibilities:
- Working on your own or part of a team, you’ll be required to undertake a wide range of Carpentry and other multi-trade tasks.
- You will be working to a controlled appointment system via your hand held device or planner and be expected to be professional, arrive on time and deliver a ‘right first time’ service to our customers. Excellent customer service is expected at all times.
- Working efficiently is key; so you need to ensure you have the materials for the job required and liaising with Stores when necessary.
- This means maintaining van stocks to an agreed level and always taking responsibility for your van stocks.
- You must be accountable for the control and safe keeping of vehicle, plant, tools, equipment and materials supplied by the organisation, ensuring that they are kept in a well maintained condition.
- As you’ll be driving a whg van, you’ll also need to ensure transport documents and policies are adhered to by completing and submitting relevant records.
We're looking for someone who has:
- A City and Guilds or NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry Maintenance (or qualified by recent and relevant experience)
- Experience of a wide range of Carpentry works, including building, repairs, maintenance, installation and refurbishment.
- Experience of fire safety related tasks;
- Understanding fire stopping and passive fire protection
- Installation of fire door sets
- Experience of a variety of multi-trade tasks, such as plastering, dry lining, rendering, floor laying/ screeding, plumbing, tiling, wall papering and painting
- Experience working in a customer facing role, with excellent customer service skills and the ability to professionally handle challenging customers
What’s in it for you?
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.
We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.
About us
Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.
It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.
We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.
We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.
For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com
About whg
We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality
homes.
Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of
supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to
uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on
it.
We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively
and be passionate about their work.
Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the
communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means
colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good
judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that
everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel
comfortable to be themselves.
We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that
disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to
fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to
make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look
out for the Disability Confident logo.
We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will
interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We
will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition
enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.
Our benefits
27 days annual leave
Flexible working
Health cash plan
Christmas
closedown
Investment in learning
and development
Generous LGPS
pension
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