Kitchen & Bathroom Fitter

If you want to put your specialist trade skills to use providing and maintaining safe, secure, and warm places that people are proud to call home - you belong at Bromford.

As part of our service delivery team, you’ll be a key member of a team installing kitchens and bathrooms for our customers and make sure that all our properties and our customers receive the highest levels of service. In your role, you’ll build strong relationships, make new friends, and have a genuinely positive impact on the lives of thousands of people.

You will take pride in the fitting of kitchen and bathrooms of domestic properties and be able to demonstrate a wide range of trade skills in carpentry, plumbing, and plastering. In addition to this, you will have experience in tiling, painting, and laying sheet vinyl flooring.

This role will allow you to use a variety of your trade skills. Using your carpentry skills you will fit kitchens and undertake other basic carpentry related tasks eg repair floorboards and boxing in pipes. With your plumbing/carpentry skills you will complete 1st and 2nd fix pipe work in kitchens to suite the new kitchen layout and have the ability to work from a drawing. In bathrooms you must able to fit a new suite shower and undertake all the necessary pipework to alterations. You will also be able to undertake full skimming of walls and ceilings where needed, to a high standard of finish ready to receive paint finish. Other duties will include laying vinyl sheet flooring, painting walls, ceilings, skirtings and architraves to a high finishing standard. You will have substantial experience in all the trade skills outlined and have a good eye for detail, ensuring that works are complete to a high standard and on time.

This is a mobile role and you’ll need to have a full, clean driving licence and be willing to work 40 hours per week. This role requires flexibility to cover Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Hereford and Worcestershire regions, so will involve travel to these areas to suit program of works. A electric van will be provided dependent on availability*. Due to the nature of the role, a DBS check will be undertaken for the successful applicant.

**We want someone who**:

- Is a genuine all-rounder with strong practical skills and first-hand knowledge of plumbing, carpentry and plastering trades
- Has proven ability to diagnose/problem solve, undertake and complete the fitting of kitchens/bathrooms to high levels of quality and customer satisfaction
- Has plenty of flexibility to travel to surrounding areas
- Has good communication skills
- Is seen as a people person with excellent customer service skills
- Is comfortable working in a team and independently without supervision
- Feels comfortable working within a social housing environment
- Has an outstanding work ethic and the drive to complete work to an excellent standard without close supervision and on time to keep with the program
- Is good with technology (phone/tablet)
- Has a full, clean driving licence.

Your previous experience may be in roles as a kitchen fitter, bathroom fitter, amongst others.

If this sounds like you, you’ll feel right at home here. At Bromford we give both customers and colleagues the opportunity to realise their potential. In our team you’ll do incredible work and be rewarded for doing so. Not just in the smiling faces of the thriving communities that you help build, but in the trust, support, training, success and friendship you’ll find in our team.

In addition to a competitive salary, we will offer you a fantastic benefits package. This includes; 27 days holiday (plus statutory bank holidays); a choice of defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes; trust-based flexible working, and a £500 personal allowance to spend on your choice of things like private medical cover, dental treatment and gym membership. **Click here** to see the full list.

Bromford Housing Group is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding employees and customers, as a result we will carry out pre-employment checks. The nature of these checks will vary according to the role applied for, and may include details of current/previous employment, unspent criminal convictions, education and proof of relevant qualifications. We will also be asking for references for everyone who is offered employment with us which must cover the last two years. In addition to this, all employees will be asked for evidence of their right to live and work in the UK - further information is available on the **UK Government website**.