Joiner

We are looking for 2 Joiners / Joinery Technicians to join our Repairs and Maintenance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to our customers' homes and communities. Working across Blackburn, Rossendale and Pendle, you will deliver a customer-focused, quality-driven repairs and maintenance service, carrying out a wide range of joinery repairs to both tenanted and vacant properties. No two days are the same, and you'll play a key role in helping us provide safe, well-maintained homes and excellent customer service.

• →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 etc.

• 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.

• Starting salary of  £33,758
• Company Van
• 27 days holiday (rising to 32 over 5 years’ service) + bank holidays 
• A flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies 
• You will work a total of 37 hours per week, scheduled between 08:00 and 19:30 across any five days from Monday to Saturday. The exact schedule will depend on business needs at the time. However, to give an idea, a typical working week may be Monday to Thursday from 08:00 to 16:00 and Friday from 08:00 to 15:30. Please note that this is subject to change based on business requirements. 
• Required to participate in the call-out rota for one week once every eight weeks.
• Attractive pension schemes - including Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• To view the full range of our award winning benefits click on the Employee Benefits Link