To be part of a small, friendly, proactive team, maintaining and improving our sites across Bedfordshire to ensure that our residents have a safe, comfortable & contemporary place to live that feels like home, and to help us in our mission to end homelessness.

Van, tools and work mobile are supplied.  You will also receive 25 days’ holiday/ year with excellent pension and other benefits.

Working hours: 8:30-4:30 Monday to Friday.

Under the direction of the Maintenance Manager you will undertake various reactive and planned tasks, prioritised in order of need. These include: turning around void rooms as residents move on, maintaining communal areas and office spaces and carrying out necessary repairs. The varied workload will give you the opportunity to use your carpentry, decorating, electrical, plumbing and maintenance skills to great effect.

• Prepare and decorate residents’ rooms prior to being let
• Maintain communal areas, outbuildings and staff offices.
• Repair doors and any broken furniture e.g. wardrobe, drawers, chairs within rooms and staff facilities
• Build flat-pack furniture
• Basic kitchen installation/ tiling
• Resolve problems that will result in the increased damage to the building if not attended to e.g. water leaks
• Basic plumbing tasks, including maintaining water & waste systems/ drains
• Using health and safety knowledge and experience to work within agreed risk and method statements (RAMS)
• Undertake routine health & safety checks/ testing as and when they are due; e.g. fire panels/ emergency lighting/ legionella etc.
• Maintain equipment & clean down tools supplied to carry out works
• Update records of works as required