Organisation: Loreburn Housing Association Limited
Full Time / Part Time: Full time
Permanent / Temporary: Permanent
Location: Dumfries
Hours: 34 hours each week (1.0 FTE) worked over 4 days on a rota basis between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday, long weekend every 5 weeks.
Location: Dumfries & Galloway (East Area) with travel across the region
Salary range: £34,990 – £38,408 FTE + competitive benefits package. Starting salary will be based on skills and experience.
Additional payments for on call (£175 per week) + call outs paid at 1.5 x hourly rate.
Hourly rate £19.79 – £21.72.
Hours: 34 hour week, worked over 4 days between 8am and 5pm and enjoy a rota that allows long weekend downtime every 5 weeks.
It’s an exciting time to be joining the team and we’ll share more information about the working arrangements at interview.
About Us
Loreburn is a registered social landlord (RSL) and Scottish Charity, with 2,700 homes across Dumfries & Galloway. Established more than 40 years ago, our vision and mission is to ‘create great places to live’ by providing good quality, well maintained, and affordable homes.
As a community-based association, we place our tenant facing services at the heart of the communities we serve. Our ‘Hub, Home & Roam’ working model allows our team to work flexibly, ensuring they can be where they’re most needed, supported by the right tools and resources to deliver on our commitments to tenants and communities.
The Role
You’ll be joining a team of Skilled operatives working both independently and as part of a team, carrying out reactive and void works. You’ll also be involved in the DEICR, Smoke Alarm and Emergency Lighting program of works and undertake other multi-skilled duties which include basic joinery, minor plastering repairs, and decoration.
This role is agile with travel across Dumfries & Galloway and reports to the In-House Repairs Team Manager. It will be based within the East team covering DG1,2,7,10,11,12,13,14,16. You may be required to cover other areas throughout the region from time to time.
You’ll need to hold a full, valid, Driving Licence as you will be required to drive as part of this role. Loreburn will provide you with a fully stocked Loreburn van, Power tools, PPE and mobile technology you’ll need to carry out the role.
We offer regular work, a steady salary, a great work/life balance and generous employee benefits.
What We’re Looking For
What’s really important is that you have a strong commitment to excellent service delivery and are highly organised in your approach.
* Be qualified to current IEE 18th Edition Regulations.
* Hold ACS Grade Card.
* Have a full valid driving licence.
* Demonstrate the ability to develop new skills.
* Be able to provide support and guidance to any apprentices.
* Participate in the on-call rota to provide out of hours services to our customers.
* Be able to work under pressure, organising and prioritising to deliver outputs and meet deadlines.
* Have working knowledge of Health & Safety and risk management in the workplace.
* Be able to have a flexible approach to ensure jobs are completed.
* Be able to work independently, whilst also being a great team player to get the job done.
* Have a basic understanding of IT (use of apps, emails etc.) and a willingness to learn our systems to update data.
* Be able to work using your own initiative.
We value potential and a commitment to learning and encourage applicants who may not possess every requirement to find out more.
Working With Us
* Competitive pay and rewards.
* Matched pension contributions up to 8% and life cover of 3 x salary.
* Salary sacrifice options for pension contributions.
* 8 weeks annual leave including an allowance for public holidays.
* Take part in a 4 day working week.
* Salary progression annually with additional inflationary increases each year.
* A company van, power tools and mobile technology to support your role.
* Westfield Health Plan – contributions towards a range of services including dental, optical, therapies, counselling and wellbeing services.
* Employee discounts including Blue Light card, cashback and high street retail and gym discounts.
* Family friendly policies.
* Support for continuous professional development and protected learning time.
* Strong values-based culture offering autonomy and empowerment.
* Paid volunteering days.
* Long service rewards.
* Professional fees – Loreburn will reimburse one set of annual fees paid by employees for membership of professional institutions when such membership is directly relevant to our work.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices as accessible as possible for everyone, this includes making any necessary adjustments. If you need us to do anything differently as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
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