Multi Skilled Technician in Penzance

Are you a hands-on professional with a passion for delivering high-quality repairs and maintenance? Join our Internal Maintenance Service (IMS) team at LiveWest as a Multiskilled Technician. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our homes are safe, well-maintained, and meet the expectations of our customers. This mobile role offers variety, autonomy, and the chance to make a real difference in the communities we serve. You will have a core trade in carpentry and be based within 30 minutes of Penzance.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality fault fixing and maintenance services across multiple sites.
• Diagnose and repair basic building faults in line with best practices and service standards.
• Ensure compliance with all Health and Safety policies, including fleet safety.
• Provide excellent customer service and act as a LiveWest ambassador in customers’ homes.
• Work towards achieving first-time fixes to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Use mobile technology to manage job orders and updates efficiently.
• Carry out work across multiple trades, including carpentry, plumbing, masonry, and tiling.
• Support the delivery of responsive repairs and maintenance across LiveWest properties.

Why Apply?

• Be part of a supportive, values-driven organisation committed to customer care and community impact.
• Enjoy a varied and mobile role with autonomy and responsibility.
• Access ongoing training and development to grow your skills.
• Work in a collaborative environment where your contribution is valued.
• Benefit from a strong safety culture and a team that delivers together.

This role is offered on a full-time permanent basis working 40 hours per week.

Skills

• A recognised apprenticeship or qualification in a core trade.
• Post-qualification experience and the ability to diagnose and repair basic building faults.
• Proficiency in using mobile devices for job management.
• A good understanding of Health and Safety procedures.
• A customer-focused mindset with strong communication and organisational skills.
• A full, UK, manual driving licence.

Desirable:

• Experience working in customers’ homes and knowledge of responsive maintenance.
• Asbestos HSG210 awareness and experience with unvented systems.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the role without a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Rewards & Benefits

• Company van: includes a fuel card for work-related travel.
• Full kit: uniform and PPE supplied for your safety and convenience.
• Generous annual leave: start with 26 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with length of service – and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days (pro-rated for part-time roles).
• Pension: up to 9% employer contributions with our defined contribution scheme.
• Health benefits and perks: access to a health-care cash plan (worth up to £1,100 annually), virtual GP services, discounted gym memberships, and retail discounts, including a Blue Light Card.
• Learning and development: ongoing personal and professional growth opportunities.
• Family support: policies designed to help you balance work and family life, including a new child payment.
• Wellbeing: mental health support, enhanced sick pay, wellness campaigns, and free flu jabs.
• Travel benefits: Cycle to Work and Car Benefit schemes.
• Giving back: up to four paid volunteering days a year to support our communities.

LiveWest is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups. Appointment to this role is subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check. For further information about this role and LiveWest, please view our candidate information pack.