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You’ll deliver a high quality, customer focussed repair service at various domestic and commercial properties within Fareham Borough Council’s property portfolio.
You’ll be required to carry out a full range of building maintenance dutieswithin both occupied and vacant properties. P rimarily this will be plumbing and carpentry but will also include a variety of supporting trades including glazing, UPVC window and doors, plastering, roofing, decorating, tiling, dry lining, and any general maintenance and repair work. You’ll also carry out all aspects of kitchen and bathroom fitting including copper pipe soldering and tiling.
Your working hours will typically be 8.30am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. The service runs until 5.15pm and there may be occasions where you will be expected to work up until this time. You will have the opportunity to build extra hours as flexi-time when this is needed.
You will be expected to take part in an out of hours rota working (1 week in every 5) for which standby and call out payments are made.
About You
You’ll need to be an experienced and professional highly skilled multi-trade operative, ideally, with previous experience working within social/council housing.
You must have a trade related qualification and practical experience in carpentry, plumbing and general building works.A full valid driving licence is required as you will be driving a Council vehicle during working hours.
The right person for Fareham will have the practical skills underpinned by a real sense of pride in doing a good job.
You will need to be willing to undertake a Basic Level Disclosure and Barring Service check which will show unspent convictions and conditional cautions only.
About Us
With around 2,500 Council homes, Fareham Borough Council is the largest provider of social housing in the Borough, and our repairs service is often the main point of contact for many of our housing tenants.
We are proud of our customer focused ethos and the Council has a reputation for delivering excellent services to our residents, thanks to our loyal and hard-working teams, who all share our pride in the borough.
Fareham Borough Council is a great place to work and you would be joining an organisation that has a real family feel to it. We take pride in receiving feedback from others who say we are a friendly and professional organisation. We aim to attract, develop, and retain the very best people.
We offer a great pension scheme, authorised parking, generous leave and a car lease scheme to name a few of the benefits of working for us.
The selection process for this role may include a practical skills assessment.
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Mid-Senior level
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Management and Manufacturing
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