Maintenance Operative

3 days ago


Richmond, Greater London, United Kingdom North Yorkshire Council Full time

Are you a Maintenance Operative looking to further develop your skills and experience, or are you Single Skilled or Multi Skilled Maintenance Operative, with secondary qualifications and experience, again looking to further develop your skills, experience and career within a construction/repairs environment

If so, this role is definitely for you

We are looking for Joiners to join our Housing Standards Team working within the areas of Maintenance and Improvement across the county.

Our Service

The Housing Standards Maintenance team are responsible for ensuring the Councils social housing portfolio of circa 8,400 dwellings is maintained to meet all current statutory, regulatory, and legislative standards.

The role

The core focus of this role is to carry out essential maintenance, refurbishment or construction works on social housing stock to ensure they meet the Decent Homes Standards.

Single Skilled Maintenance Operative you will


• Carry out domestic general building repairs such as plastering, bricklaying, roof repair, tiling, painting, basic plumbing such as replacing rainwater goods and isolating water supplies to carry out work as per the work orders given, or construction specification.


• Record and monitor supplied equipment as necessary.


• Work to expected Health & Safety standards and safe systems of work.


• You must have the knowledge and understanding of Building Regulations.


• You will be able to provide an out of hours emergency service on a rota basis.


• Undertake professional, mandatory and skills-based training.

Maintenance Operative Multi-Skilled you will


• Carry out domestic general building repairs such as plastering, bricklaying, roof repair, tiling, painting, basic plumbing such as replacing rainwater goods and isolating water supplies to carry out work as per the work orders given, or construction specification.


• Carry out maintenance and repair general builder work as per work.

orders or specification.


• Carry out maintenance and repair work for the secondary trade in which you are trained


• Record and monitor supplied equipment as necessary.


• You must have the knowledge and understanding of Building Regulations at multi-skilled level.


• Work to expected Health & Safety standards and safe systems of work.


• You will be able to provide an out of hours emergency service on a rota basis.


• Undertake professional, mandatory and skills-based training.

What you will bring

Single Skilled Maintenance Operative, you must have relevant qualifications and experience in a specialist trade relating to domestic maintenance operations. You will have experience working in a domestic setting and be familiar with materials, tools and machinery used in the repair, maintenance, or construction of homes. You must always communicate efficiently and courteously at appropriate levels.

At this grade further training will be available to enhance the skills base as required.

Maintenance Operative Multi-Skilled, you must have relevant qualifications and experience in a specialist trade relating to building operations with a good working knowledge of other trade areas associated with the primary area of experience, such as, but not exclusive to groundworks, bricklaying, painting, plastering, tiling

and roofing.

You will have experience working in a domestic setting and be familiar with building materials, tools and machinery used in the repair, maintenance, or construction of homes.

You must always communicate efficiently and courteously at appropriate levels.

At this grade further training will be available to enhance the skills base as required.

The role will come with a Council vehicle, you will be responsible for carrying out routine vehicle safety checks as required and must ensure compliance with requirements relating to vehicle use and maintenance.

Please note: For any Maintenance Operative applicants who do not possess an NVQ level 2 or 3 but have gained years of experience in the trade, we will consider this as time served where appropriate, and we would consider applications on this basis. Skills tests may be carried out to prove competency at these levels.

Please refer to full Job Description.

Working for us

When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and save £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK's favourite high-street and online retailers. Plus lots more...

Contact and Apply

If you would like to learn more about our opportunity, we recommend contacting Ian Howard on (Harrogate) or Suzanne Cooley on (Selby) for applications relating to Harrogate contact either of the above prior to applying.

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.



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