Joiner Fixed Term Contract

  • Manchester
  • Appcastenterprise

We are Places Management; we help to maintain over 80,000 properties across the UK, so our customers are proud to call them home.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselveswith passionate people, can do people and get things done people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

More about your role

This is a fixed term contract role covering a secondment for 6 months. Working 40 hours per week, you will also have the opportunity to earn overtime, be provided with a company van and be entitled to 24 days holiday.

As a Joiner with Places for People you will be expected to carry out joinery/carpentry to a high standard. You will be carrying out all 1st, 2nd and final fixes ensuring that all work carried out meets statutory requirements, customer expectations and groupprocedures.

You will work independently and you will monitor your schedule of work via the tablet that we supply.

You will be responsible for your own Health and Safety and of those around you. You will be carrying out responsive and void repair works, as well as joinery you will be required to have basic skills in plumbing, plastering, tiling and any other associatedtrade skills.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website

More about you

As one of our Joiners you will hold an NVQ level 2 (or equivalent) in joinery/carpentry coupled with a strong working knowledge of either plumbing, plastering, tiling or brick work.If you had experience of fire door conversion and/or working with fireproof materials that would be highly advantageous.

You will be able to demonstrate, at interview, excellent knowledge of best practice health and safety in the work place, your positive approach and commitment to delivering an effective customer service experience as well as an ability to create successfuland respectful relationships with customers, colleagues and other departments.

Ideally you will possess previous experience working a social or domestic housing environment.

The benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

  • Pension with matched contributions
  • 35 days Holiday per year
  • Company van provided
  • Excellent sick pay
  • Training
  • Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more

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