Carpenter & Joiner

Location: Coatbridge

Salary: up to £34,315.86 per annum, plus great company benefits

Full Time Permanent | 40 hours per week (08:00-16:30 Monday - Friday)

Company van & fuel card

Mears have continued investment in the North Lanarkshire community for the long-term. We have a commitment to deliver excellent services to residents, whilst bringing community and training benefits to the North Lanarkshire community in a sustainable way. Our ambition is to be recognised as the most trusted, large private provider, working with the public sector by 2025. Our approach prioritises where we can have the greatest impact and supports a culture that fully integrates sustainability and purpose beyond profit.

Mears are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in the housing with care market. Mears Group’s vision is to make a positive difference to the people we serve by improving homes, improving communities and improving lives.

Day to day duties:

• You will be required to support the Voids team with all refits, refurbishments to homes & Council properties that we support in the North Lanarkshire area.
• Carrying out all joinery works that is required.
• You will be responsible for duties to include but not limited to – hanging fire doors, fixing windows / doors, lock changes, repairing kitchen units & bathrooms and floors.
• Any carpentry work that is required of you.
• Providing high levels of customer care at all times.

You will be provided with a PDA that will list your jobs on a daily basis, will work through your jobs one by one, updating your PDA when commuting, arriving at the property, assessing the works and completing the works. Materials will be stocked in the van and anything that you don’t have can be purchased from Jewsons and Hughs Gray, where we hold accounts.

Role Criteria:

• Experience in Carpentry.
• A UK full valid driving license.
• It would be advantageous if you had Social housing experience and knowledge of other trade disciplines.

Benefits we can offer you:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more.
• Family friendly policies.
• Company Van, Fuel Card, and Uniform.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21, have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Disclosure Scotland/Security checks before commencement of employment.

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility.