Multi Skilled Technician

The Vacancy

Working for yourself has its merits, but it’s a tough gig. If you’re feeling like you want all the good stuff without the hassle and need a change then read on to find out more about our fantastic employment benefits.

Alternatively, you may be working for another business but would like to move to an organisation that is on firm financial footing, with excellent benefits and has a track record in promoting talent from within.

Due to growth in our business, a strong commitment to our customer care standards, health & safety aims, environmental and sustainability agenda, we have a number of vacancies within Our Direct Labour Operation (DLO).

As a Paradigm Technician working for our DLO, we’ll supply you with a fully equipped hybrid van (no insurance renewals or services to concern yourself with as we do that) and a fuel card to ensure you can get around easily. We’ll provide you with an electronictablet where your you can see your scheduled jobs and access our intranet for the latest company news. You’ll also get a mobile ‘phone, work clothing and PPE and we’ll aim to book your jobs in your local area where possible. You will be the face of Paradigmand will deliver a quality service to our customers in their homes, so a friendly and polite manner is as important as competence and high standards of work in your given trade.

Paradigm Housing Group employees more than 550 staff has over 16,000 properties (mainly in the South East of England), with an annual turnover of more than £120million, we are a financially strong, safety conscious, and an environmentally aware social housingprovider. We endeavour to make the best use of our resources in order to provide a cost effective and professional service to our customers, we aim to provide a first fix service where possible, with professional, polite and competent people delivering andexceeding on our Customer Care Standards.

Role specific requirements:

- Relevant City & Guilds Part 1 & 2, NVQ2 or relevant experience
- Apprentice trained or substantial experience as a Kitchen and Bathroom Fitter
- Experience/Knowledge to be able to carry out installation of complete bathrooms which will include bath, WC, WHB, decoration, panelling, flooring, and all accessories.
- Experience/Knowledge to be able to carry out installation of complete kitchens which will include units, worktop, decoration, tiling, flooring, and all accessories.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

- Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
- Annual Bonus potential
- On-call potential payments (for some roles, depending on business needs)
- Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
- Health Cash Plan - worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education)and
each
child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category
- Opportunities for career advancement - if that’s what you want, but it’s fine if you don’t
- Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

We are a Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. The organisation is clearly focussed on the delivery of its five-year corporate plan with ambitious andchallenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.