Salary: Band G £26,873 To Top of Band I £35,745
Contract: Full Time 37 Hours Monday - Friday
Location: Harrogate area
Are you a qualified Joiner looking to further develop your skills and experience, or are you a Multi Skilled Joiner with secondary qualifications and experience, looking to develop your career within a construction/repair environment?
If so, this role is for you!
We are looking for Joiners to join our Housing Standards Team working within the areas of Maintenance and Improvement across the county.
Our Service
The Housing Standards Maintenance team is responsible for ensuring the Council's social housing portfolio of circa 8,400 dwellings is maintained to meet all current statutory, regulatory, and legislative standards.
The Role
The core focus of this role is to carry out essential maintenance, refurbishment, or construction works on social housing stock to ensure they meet the Decent Housing Standards.
At Joiner Single Trade level you will:
* Carry out domestic Joiner repairs
* Record and monitor supplied equipment as necessary
* Work to expected Health & Safety standards and safe systems of work
* Undertake professional, mandatory, and skills-based training.
At Multi Skilled Joiner level you will:
* Carry out maintenance and repair joinery work, and work for the secondary trade in which you are trained, as per work orders or specification.
* Carry out maintenance and repair work in allied trades as needed
* Record and monitor supplied equipment as necessary
* Work to expected Health & Safety standards and safe systems of work
* Undertake professional, mandatory, and skills-based training.
At this grade, further training will be available to enhance the skills base as required.
The role will come with a Council vehicle, and you will be responsible for carrying out routine vehicle safety checks as required and must ensure compliance with requirements relating to vehicle use and maintenance.
What You Will Bring:
At single trade joiner level: you must have relevant qualifications and experience in a specialist trade relating to domestic joinery operations. You will have experience working in a domestic setting and be familiar with materials, tools, and machinery used in the repair, maintenance, or construction of homes. You must communicate efficiently and courteously at appropriate levels.
You must have knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety and of Building Regulations.
You will be able to provide an out-of-hours emergency joinery service on a rota basis.
At multi-skilled joiner level: you will have relevant qualifications and experience in a specialist trade relating to domestic joinery operations with a good working knowledge of other trade areas associated with the primary area of experience, such as, but not exclusive to plumbing. You will have experience working in a domestic setting and be familiar with materials, tools, and machinery used in the repair, maintenance, or construction of homes.
You must have knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety and of Building Regulations at Multi-skilled level and be able to communicate efficiently and courteously at appropriate levels.
You will be able to provide an out-of-hours emergency joinery and plumbing service on a rota basis.
Working for Us:
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various gyms across the county. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers.
Contact and Apply:
If you would like to learn more about our opportunity, we recommend contacting Sam Pickersgill at sam.pickersgill@northyorks.gov.uk prior to applying.
Applying is easy, simply click on apply, register your details, remove your personal details from your CV, and upload.
Key Dates:
Closing date: 23rd October
Interview date: 28th October
Key Documents:
Job Description.pdf
Total Rewards Brochure.pdf
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