Multi Skilled Operative

Annual salary: up to £38,703.26

Multi Skilled Operative

Location: West London

Contract: Permanent, full time, 42.5 hours per week

Salary: £38,703.26 per annum plus company van, fuel card and overtime opportunities

We are looking for a skilled and customer focused Multi Skilled Operative to join our responsive repairs team, working across social housing properties in West London. This is a varied, hands on role where you will use your trade skills to deliver high quality repairs while providing an excellent service to residents in their homes.

You will be responsible for completing a range of reactive maintenance tasks across occupied properties, managing your workload independently and ensuring all work is completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Mears is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing services, delivering responsive repairs, planned maintenance and regeneration projects for local authorities and housing associations. We are committed to making a positive difference to the communities we serve and to supporting our people to develop and succeed.

About the Role:

As a Multi Skilled Operative, you will carry out day to day responsive repairs within occupied social housing properties across your assigned patch.

• Carry out responsive repairs across social housing properties

• Repair and replace skirting boards, architraves and internal door frames

• Install and adjust kitchen units, worktops and cupboard doors

• Repair or replace internal doors, locks, handles and hinges

• Identify and fix minor plumbing issues such as leaks and blockages

• Complete patch plastering and making good damaged walls and ceilings

• Carry out wall and floor tiling repairs, including grouting and sealing

• Complete painting and decorating to a professional finish

• Ensuring all repairs are completed safely, efficiently, and to a high standard

• Work respectfully in occupied homes, maintaining residents’ privacy and comfort

• Accurately record job details, materials used and completion notes

• Maintain equipment and a company vehicle in good working order

• Participate in an out of hours emergency repair rota when required

Key Criteria:

• Experience in plastering

• Experience in other domestic repairs and maintenance across multiple trades (e.g. carpentry, plumbing, tiling, painting)

• Ability to work independently and manage a daily workload

• Strong customer service skills and a professional approach

• Ability to provide your own tools, as tools will not be provided

• Full UK manual driving licence

Benefits

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.

• Generous Pension Scheme

• Sick Pay

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme Park, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment

• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.

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 Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Olivia Elias ([email protected])

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. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.