What's involved with this role: Temporary Maintenance Technician - Corporate Property Job Ref: E Devon 5248617 Pay Rate: £14.17 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5-7 months City: Honiton, Devon Basic DBS disclosure required for this role This post involves working outside normal office hours and attending emergency call-outs as required. The purpose of the role is to support East Devon District Council in providing a high quality cyclical, planned and reactive repairs and maintenance service of non-housing assets of occupied and unoccupied properties. Key Responsibilities: General Carpentry repairs and installations, encompassing Carcass, first / second fix. Repair / replace doors, frames, windows, etc including resin repairs to external joinery. Replacement ironmongery, grab rails, fixtures and fittings etc. Installation of kitchen base/floor units worktops, skirting, architrave, beads, window boards, rails, mouldings, shelving and like Hoarding to secure premises and boundaries etc. General plumbing repairs and maintenance works. Repair or renew waste and soil pipes. Repair hot and cold water services, valves & fittings etc. Repair heating pipework, radiators/valves and fittings etc. Replace immersion element/heater. Including connect to spur. Repair or renew toilets, urinals, wash hand basins, kitchen sinks. Plastering & rendering repairs to walls and ceilings. Floor and wall tiling repairs. Work at heights (with appropriate training) from, e.g. scaffolding, ladders, mobile tower, power cradle etc. and erect temporary work platforms. Assess works, diagnose faults and suggest the best remedy or rectification. Accurately measure, quantify and list materials requirements. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence to drive a Council vehicle. Qualifications: City and Guilds in related trade or NVQ Level 2 in Maintenance Operations or similar equivalent. Asbestos Awareness. Legionella Awareness. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Must be capable of working at height using ladders or scaffold. Accuracy and attention to detail particularly when working to tight deadlines. Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team. Capacity for innovation. Specialisms in at least two or more areas of key activities listed in section 1 of the Job Description. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please