Joiner

We are looking for a Joiner/Joinery Technician to join the Repairs and Maintenance team in Lancashire, to cover the Blackburn area. As a Joiner, you will provide all types of joinery repairs to tenanted and vacant properties, with a customer service quality driven repair and maintenance service.

Together Housing Group is one of the largest housing associations in the North of England, managing over 38,000 homes across the region. We are a non-profit organisation, meaning any money we make is invested back into the company for the benefit of our residents and local communities. We are committed to having a Diverse and Inclusive workforce and welcome applications from candidates with any of the nine protected characteristics. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Requirements

• To carry out all types of joinery repairs to both tenanted and vacant properties in accordance with job tickets, opti-time appointment slots, specifications and contract drawings, to good practice, Building Regulations etc as appropriate and applicable.
• To carry out work with an ethos of “Right First Time”, always completing a repair where practicable in one visit, with good quality workmanship and good standard of performance.
• To organise your work to minimise lost or non-productive time, highlighting pro-actively if you have too much/too little work so that work can be re-allocated, extra work allocated etc as appropriate.
• To assist in addressing the peaks and troughs in workload by working overtime and at other times when requested by prior arrangement with your manager.
• To participate in a stand-by or call-out rota.
• To use your initiative to diagnose and undertake a repair which may be different from the job required or where the job required was of a locate fault type nature, obtaining approval beforehand as appropriate where the job is more expensive than anticipated, will take much longer than anticipated etc.
• To work to a consistently high standard of workmanship in line with service specification, service standards, safe working procedures and as part of a team to ensure the most efficient use of time, materials and resources.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Full manual UK drivers licence.
• Experience of working competently in all disciplines normally expected of a qualified Joiner/Joinery Technician along with other associated building disciplines as required and as appropriate.
• Relevant qualification and experience, e.g. City and Guilds Advanced Craft Certificate in Carpentry & Joinery or equivalent (NVQ Level 2).
• Experience of working in a customer service environment.
• Experience of maximising number of jobs completed and repairs completed in one visit.

Benefits

• Covering Blackburn and surrounding areas.
• Starting salary: £35,377.62 per annum.
• Use of company van.
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 over 5 years’ service) + bank holidays.
• A flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• You will be working 37 hours per week between the hours of 8am until 8pm, 4 days on and 4 days off (rolling week) and you will be working shorter days on weekends.
• Wide range of professional and personal development training opportunities.
• Attractive pension scheme.
• A range of financial, health and lifestyle benefits including cycle to work, vehicle leasing and financial advice.

This post is subject to a Basic Criminal Disclosure, which will be carried out when a conditional offer is made.