Multi Skilled Operative

**Multi Skilled Operative**

**Location: Newent, Gloucestershire**

**Salary: £29,500**

**The Vacancy**

**Full time - 40 hours**

**Permanent**

**About the role**

We are currently seeking a Multi-Trade Operative to provide an efficient responsive repair, maintenance and refurbishment service, ensuring correct quality of work to enable objective achievement.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Complete all allocated (multi-trade) jobs in time and within budget.
- Achieve Team SLA’s as defined by organisational requirements
- To work within agreed objectives and time scales to meet the performance criteria
- Proactively assist in the successful development of IT systems to improve Customer Service service delivery
- Compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements
- Responsible for ensuring the correct quality of work and taking appropriate action where necessary.
- Complete work of other trades when reasonably required.

**About you**
- Demonstrable practical skills in building repair, maintenance and refurbishment to domestic properties, particularly in social housing.
- Ability to deal sensitively with a wide variety of types of customers and provide an individual service
- Housing Sector standards and regulations relating to the repair and maintenance of Social Housing.
- Experience of using integrated housing repairs/maintenance systems
- Good communication skills.
- Primary trade - Plastering Secondary trade - Carpentry
- Must be multi skilled and have experience of working in void properties
- Experience of working for a housing association
- Experience of working with a PDA
- Sound knowledge of health and safety familiar to area
- Full driving licence is required

**About Us**

Centigen is a facilities management company providing invaluable services such as grounds maintenance, property repairs and maintenance and commercial cleaning to clients across the South West.

We are a subsidiary of Two Rivers Housing - a charity which provides over 4,000 homes for low-cost rent and Shared Ownership, and supports activities and amenities across communities in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. All surplus income generated by Centigenis gifted back to Two Rivers, allowing staff to continue their work for the benefit of future generations.

As part of the Two Rivers Housing group, we are driven by a mission of 'creating great homes and supporting communities’ and the five values which underpin this - Integrity, Collaboration, Ambition, Respect and Ethics.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.

We are delighted you are interested in joining our team, and this is an excellent opportunity to work for a progressive facilities management company with its roots in a charitable housing organisation.