Qualified Multi-Skilled Trader (Carpentry & Plumbing Focus)
Location: Bracknell (and surrounding towns)
Salary: £38,500 + Call-out/Standby Payments
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits: Company Van (fitted with Van Vault, racking & inverter), Fuel Card, Uniform, PPE, Tablet, Mobile Phone, Pension Scheme, and Generous Holiday Allowance.
About the Team
We are a leading housing provider dedicated to turning empty properties into warm, welcoming homes. Our Empty Homes (Voids) Team is the engine room of our property lifecycle. We work efficiently alongside in-house trades, sub-contractors, and housing lettings teams to ensure that vacant properties are repaired, safety-checked, and handed over to new residents to the highest possible standards.
Due to team expansion, we have two exciting opportunities for pro-active, highly motivated, and professional Multi-Skilled Operatives to join our busy team.
About the Role
In this role, you will be completing a wide variety of trade tasks across vacant domestic properties, with a clear emphasis on carpentry and plumbing. You will ensure that all refurbishment and repair works are carried out efficiently, safely, and in accordance with excellent building maintenance practices.
Because our customers are at the heart of everything we do, your customer service skills must be top-notch. When needed, you will interact with new residents, always aiming to go above and beyond to deliver an amazing service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carry out high-quality multi-trade maintenance and installation works, focusing heavily on carpentry and plumbing, within empty (void) residential properties.
- Diagnose faults and deliver effective, right-first-time repairs to ensure homes meet national letting standards.
- Collaborate closely with the wider housing, lettings, and trade teams to ensure properties are re-let in a swift, timely manner.
- Utilize a company tablet to manage schedules, log completed jobs, and update real-time progress.
- Participate in the team's Out of Hours Callout rota to handle emergency repairs.
What We Are Looking For:
- Qualifications: You must hold a valid NVQ Level 2/3 or City & Guilds qualification in a relevant core trade (Carpentry or Plumbing preferred).
- Experience: Proven experience working within a domestic maintenance, residential, or social housing environment. Void/Empty homes experience is highly advantageous.
- Skill Set: Exceptional competencies in both carpentry and plumbing, with a professional and achievement-based approach to your workmanship.
- Licence & Tools: A full, clean UK Driving Licence is essential. You will be expected to supply your own everyday hand and power tools (we provide the vehicle and specialty kit).
- Attitude: A team player with excellent communication skills and a friendly, proactive manner.
What's on Offer?
- Fully Equipped Fleet: A modern company van fitted with a van vault, professional racking, and an inverter, plus a company fuel card.
- Tech & Gear: Branded uniform, full PPE, and a company tablet and mobile phone.
- Security & Perks: Generous pension scheme, great holiday package, and structural support for health and well-being.
- Growth: A welcoming, stable team environment with an organization that takes immense pride in looking after its people.
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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