Multi Skilled Operative - Dublin - Dublin
Role: Multi Skilled Operative
Salary: €40,795.00
Role based: Donabate, Dublin
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
You must have a full Irish Driving Licence
We are seeking a Multi Skilled Operative to join the Portakabin Ireland team in Donabate. The successful candidate will have Slinger/Signaller experience and will assist with the day-to-day activities of the Operations Department, including the refurbishment, fitting out, and installation of hire and sales units, as well as small projects. This role ensures that all hire fleet and sales units are properly maintained, repaired, and cleaned.
As a Multi Skilled Operative you will:
Loading and off-loading, moving cabins (Slinger/signaller ticket / 9T forklift driver licence).
Painting and decorating hire fleet (painting experience).
Fit and replace doors and windows, Build partitions as per drawings, Repair walls and floors (Carpentry experience).
Maintain a safe, organised and compliant working environment, in line with health, safety and environmental standards.
Carry out refurbishment, fit-out and installation activities in line with technical specifications, SOPs, RAMS and company standards, ensuring work is completed safely and to the required quality supporting on-time and cost-effective delivery for customers.
Apply trade skills and experience to complete tasks independently, solving problems where possible and escalating issues when required to maintain progress.
Work to agreed refurbishment and fit-out timescales, contributing to cost-effective and efficient project delivery.
Collaborate with colleagues across the team, supporting activities outside own trade or expertise where qualified or experienced to do so.*
Benefits & Opportunities
24 days holiday plus bank holidays, option to buy 5 days
Contributory pension including life assurance scheme
A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
A chance to give back to your community with an annual volunteering day
Cycle to Work Scheme
Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)
Opportunity for career progression
Our ideal candidate
Practical operational experience in slinger/signaller operation*
Practical operational experience potentially within a construction environment
Operational experience in carpentry
Practical operational experience in painting.
Driving licence.
Practical skills are developed through technical training combined with supervised hands-on application.
Working knowledge of site, yard, refurbishment and fit-out practices, including safe systems of work.
Ability to read and interpret technical documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
Proven ability to apply trade skills independently to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality outcomes.
Skills
Technical Skills, Communication, Time Management, Health & Safety Compliance, Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Team Collaboration, Advanced Computer Skills, Manual Dexterity, Adaptability.
Why Portakabin?
At Portakabin, we design and deliver high-quality modular buildings for organisations of all sizes, in various sectors including manufacturing, education, health, transport, utilities and construction. Delivering our products sustainably, and safely to our customers is of utmost importance.
Portakabin now employs more than 2,200 people across the UK and Europe. Our people are at the heart of business and the reason for our success. We offer career progression, support and development opportunities giving our employees space to grow.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on