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External Structural Repairs Technician

1 month ago


Chesham, United Kingdom Paradigm Housing Group Full time

As an External Structural Repairs Technician, you will complete day-to-day Brick repairs, external maintenance work, construct safe and durable walls, patios, fencing and fixing damaged parts, for example, brick or block walls, various patio slabs and a variety of fencing methods, insulation and drainage.

Due to the nature of this role be able to read create and or analyse specifications, determine the most accurate layout, and mark guidelines. You should also be able to mix mortar powder, sand, clay, and water correctly to obtain an acceptable consistency.

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 electronic tablet 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 Paradigm and 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.

 

Responsibilities Include: 

  • Repair/replace Brick walls using various materials and tools
  • Repair/replace patios using various materials and tools
  • Repair/replace fencing / boundaries using various materials and tools
  • Deliver projects within timeline 
  • Inspect damages and estimate costs of labour
  • Repair or replace broken materials
  • Remove debris from site to place materials
  • Ensure to protect building projects from weather conditions, such as rain or snow
  • Use hand tools and other equipment (e.g. scaffold, ladder)
  • Follow safety rules
  • Set up vapor barriers and vents
  • Maintain stock levels of building materials, bricks mortar

Role specific requirements:

  • Relevant City & Guilds or NVQ or relevant experience in bricklaying / groundworks or landscaping trades 
  • A sound knowledge of relevant legislation and/or Codes of Practice i.e. construction, building regulations and health and safety 
  • Experience using various hand tools and equipment, such as scaffolds and plant, taking safety rules into consideration 
  • Physical strength and good balance 
  • Ability to work at heights 
  • A reasonable level of literacy and numeracy to enable associated works to be completed 
  • Full valid manual driving licence. 

Area of work
Currently, our areas of operation cover: Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire,
Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and some London boroughs 
Where we work – Paradigm Housing (Map of our areas of operations) 

  

Further information 

For the full job description, role specific requirements and person specification please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email  and we will respond as soon as possible. 

As part of our application process, we ask for a short personal statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves. 

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far. 

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified. 


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