Multi-skilled Engineer - Kitchens & Bathrooms

Job description

The vacancy

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

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work organisation and, at Bromford you can expect the following:

• Monthly pay
• Fuel Card
• Coffee Card
• 27 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• A choice out of 2 pension schemes
• £500 personal allowance to spend on your choice of things like private medical cover, critical health insurance, dental treatment and gym membership, for example
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retail discount schemes to save on things like food shops, clothing, technology etc

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.

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 suit programme of works covering the Gloucestershire region and surrounding areas. 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 a full, clean driving licence.

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

The closing date for applications is Sunday 5 May 2024. Interviews will take place at our Tewkesbury office.

About us

We are a housing association- one that owns and provides 46,000 homes for people who can't access market housing; has individual relationships with more than 110,000 customers; has a strong balance sheet and plans to build 11,000 homes by 2030. all of this is only possible because of our 1,800 dedicated colleagues.

We take a simple view that nothing is more important to any individual or a family than their home. It's a matter of social justice that everyone should have a home that is safe, secure, and affordable. We exist to provide such homes. With the right home, people can achieve great things, not only for themselves but for wider society too.

We provide quality, affordable homes. But we care about the people who live in them too. We want each of them to be able to achieve their goals. This will be different for each customer. Put simply, we want people to thrive.

Diversity Statement

We are committed to providing a culture where our customers, our colleagues and our partners feel valued for being unique. We empower individuals to reach their full potential within an open, fair and supportive environment. In return we expect everyone to be respectful, collaborate effectively and embrace diversity. By listening, learning and acting we aim to constantly evolve our ambitions for equality, diversity and inclusion to ensure we can always achieve our purpose.

Great Place To Work Certified

Bromford have been certified as a Great Place To Work (Nov 22 - Nov 23). The 2022 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey highlighted that our employees believe we have an amazing company culture and that 89% of our employees where made to feel welcome when they joined us. We are also proud to have been named on 'UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing' list, proving that colleague health and wellbeing remains a top priority and that our people are truly at the heart of everything we do.