Painter and Decorator in Aberdeen

The postholder is responsible for contributing to a multi-disciplinary property team, delivering high-quality repairs, maintenance, and aids and adaptations services in line with the Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) cost and quality standards. The role ensures full compliance with health and safety legislation, regulatory requirements, and industry best practice.

The postholder undertakes a wide range of internal and external painting and decorating works, from single-element treatments to the full refurbishment of residential properties. This includes preparing work areas and surfaces to a high standard, including filling small to medium-sized holes, making good defects, and ensuring surfaces are suitably prepared for decoration.

The role is accountable for delivering consistently high standards of finish across new installations, responsive maintenance, and planned remedial works, ensuring projects are completed efficiently and to a high level of customer satisfaction.

• Carry out all types of painter works, both internally and externally including maintenance, remedial works, treatment of damp/mould/condensation, ames taping and refurbishment in empty and occupied properties.
• Where required, assist on pre-planned works such as kitchen and bathroom installations.
• Deliver a high quality, right first time, customer focused service.
• Where applicable, carry out pre-inspections/measurement surveys for work to determine scope of work/material/plant/transport requirements and work sequencing requirements.
• Operate within a scheduled appointment system to deliver painting and decorating works within agreed timescales.
• Plan and organise workloads effectively, ensuring the efficient use of time, materials, tools, and allocated resources, while maintaining high standards of painting workmanship and surface preparation.
• Take full ownership of assigned painting and decorating tasks, providing clear and timely updates to customers where works cannot be completed on the initial visit.
• Liaise effectively with the scheduler or supervisor to agree follow-on arrangements, ensuring continuity of service and completion to the required standards.
• Be aware of performance indicators relevant to the role and work to ensure that targets are achieved.
• Participate in all quality/service improvement initiatives aimed at providing service excellence to customers.
• Liaise as required with DLO scheduler, customer service advisors, other areas of the business, other DLO operatives or contractors to ensure work is properly coordinated and necessary works are completed.
• Maintain and operate an agreed range of stock and equipment within the provided vehicle and ensure there is suitable stock available to achieve right first time targets.
• Manage materials effectively with regards to minimising waste, choice of specification etc.
• Use and maintain all necessary tools, plant and equipment associated with the post and the duties to be undertaken.
• Drive company vehicle in a careful, professional manner and in line with Road Traffic Act 1988.
• Use and maintain provided PPE and corporate workwear.
• Undertake individual or corporate training and development as required for your role, participate in toolbox talks, workplace inspections and H&S audits.
• Use a company issued PDA/mobile device to carry out the job administration including receiving instructions, accurately completing works orders and general communications.
• Carry out all duties in accordance with relevant risk assessments and method statements and work in a way that minimises risk to yourself, customers and members of the public.
• Report accidents and near misses in accordance with procedures and contribute to accident/near miss investigations to ensure continuous improvement of H&S of the DLO service.
• Carry out alternative duties as and when required including assisting other operatives, attending master key access visits, etc.

Essential criteria include:

• Good pre-paint preparation experience.
• Experience covering a wide variety of internal and external painting works associated with cyclical works and refurbishment of void and occupied properties.
• Competent user of IT including Microsoft Outlook (emails).
• Experience of Reactive Maintenance.
• Proven track record of solving problems and implementing solutions.
• Experience working at heights from ladders and Scaffold.
• Working knowledge of the application of Health and Safety legislation.
• Track record of effectively working to deadlines.
• Knowledge of materials, techniques and practices for all activities commensurate with the post.
• Practical knowledge of COSHH.

Desirable criteria include:

• PASMA tower scaffold certification and IPAF mobile platform training.
• Current construction skills certificate scheme (CSCS) card and knowledge of health and safety legislation.
• Current IPAF, PAL card holder.
• UKATA asbestos awareness training.
• First aid certificate.
• Knowledge of current building regulations.
• Able to carry out wallpaper hanging to a high professional standard.
• Housing association experience.

Langstane Housing Association is a key provider of social housing in the North-East of Scotland with over 2,800 homes across Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. Our mission is to provide homes and services that make a positive difference to peoples' lives.