Annual salary: up to £41,149.72

Multi Skilled Operative

Londonderry

Full Time, Permanent, 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary up to £38,729.15 per annum, plus, company van & fuel card

Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At the end of May 2021 Mears had over 19000 service users across the three regions. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.

About the Role:

We are looking for a passionate Multi Skilled Operative to join our rapidly expanding team in Northern Ireland to work within a busy responsive repairs environment. Reporting individual job actions from site to ensure our clients receive high levels of service and high satisfaction levels as well. As a Multi Skilled Operative your main duties will include repairs and refurbishment activities to our tenanted accommodation properties delivering best in class customer service and satisfying all safety, quality and cost control standards. The main role will be to complete general repairs on homes including changing doors, taps, baths, fixing radiators, fixing kitchen units, fire doors, carpets as well as plastering any ceiling and walls where required.

Role Criteria:

• NVQ level 3 in at least 1 trade
• Trade knowledge and experience in Plumbing, Joinery and plastering
• Must hold a full UK driving License
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Excellent communication and Customer service skills
• All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• Company Van, Fuel Card and Uniform

To apply, follow the link below or to discuss your application further please contact Beth Dunford on [email protected]

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.