Multi Skilled Estate Joiner

**Job Title**:Multi Skilled Estate Joiner

**Reporting to**: Works Chargehand / Head of Property Services

**Background to the Position**

Atholl Estates covers an area of approximately 120,000 acres in Highland Perthshire, managed centrally from the Estate Office in Blair Atholl, a picturesque village close to the resort town of Pitlochry and less than 2 hours’ drive from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The estates are probably best known for Blair Castle, an iconic Scottish castle whose history dates back to the 13th century. The castle is open to visitors throughout the year, and we also have a significant number of group visits. We host corporate and public events, functions and weddings throughout the year. In conjunction with the Castle we have in excess of 200 tenanted properties, commercial buildings, a number of farmsteads.

Atholl Estates is run on a commercial basis, but with a strong element of corporate, social and environmental responsibility. The core businesses are tourism, farming, forestry, house lettings, hydro energy, conservation, field sports and property development.

The role of multi skilled joiner offers an interesting and rewarding opportunity to work within a forward-looking organisation in a beautiful part of Scotland, within the Cairngorms National Park but conveniently connected to national transport systems by rail and road, only being a 90 minute drive from Edinburgh and Inverness.

**Role Objective**

You will need to be a natural team player with a willingness to succeed and help to make the estate a success.. A close and effective working relationship with the Property Team and the wider estate as a collective is vital for both succeeding in this role and ensuring the Estates is maintained in a correct manner and the property portfolio is improved.

We are looking for the best individuals to join our planned and reactive repairs and maintenance team, working in some of the most beautiful locations, for a fantastic employer.

For this specific role we are looking for the following criteria in an individual who can carry out a range of joinery-based maintenance repairs including but not exclusively,
- Repairing wooden fixtures and structures
- Window manufacture, installation and repairs
- Easing and adjusting of door and windows
- Roofing joinery
- Signage
- Fencing
- Glazing

In addition to the joinery skills, it would be useful to have experience and a willingness to undertake
- Minor painting work
- Basic plumbing
- Basic tiling.
- Stripping out vacant properties.
- Assist with manual handling activities.
- Cleaning gutters, drainage and downpipes.
- Roof insulation work works.
- Operate a range of plant and equipment including
- Work on refurbishment projects with other team members and approved contractors as required.
- Carrying out emergency, cyclical and reactive maintenance
- Providing information on the condition’s status of properties.
- Proactively and in a sustainable way accurately calculate, without waste materials required for work, and collect them from suppliers are requested by the Works Chargehand.
- To assist in the delivery of complete compliance in relation to regulatory requirements.
- Manage health and safety effectively and maintain the highest standards of safe working practices.
- Participate as an active member of the Castle fire response team, the estate flood response team and the estate wildfire team.

The successful individual will carry out general responsive maintenance works in both the main Castle and the full range of buildings within the estate’s property portfolio. This position is demanding and fast-paced, which requires applicants to use their own initiative and be good at problem-solving while maintaining professional approach. We take pride in giving the best customer service to all of our tenants and property users.

**Applicant Requirements**:

- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Strong passion to a quality service.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Formal joinery apprenticeship and/ or time served.
- Grade C or better in all Higher Grade or O Level examinations or equivalent.
- Good understanding of Health and safety at work.

**Experience**
- Experience in a property maintenance or construction environment.
- Experience of working in a safe environment
- Ability to work under pressure.

**Skills/Knowledge**
- Experience of maintaining traditional buildings
- Ability to operate flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to use a range of both power and hand tools.

**Interpersonal Skills**
- Trustworthy and dependable
- An outgoing, resilient, confident nature
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to be self-motivated and a problem solver.
- Able to communicate courteously with a wide range of people.

**General**
- A good timekeeping
- Good work ethic.
- Willingness to be ‘Hands on’
- Ability to work comfortably at height
- Ability to work on own and also as part of a team.
- Must have