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Multi Skilled Operative

20 days ago

Tonbridge

Annual salary: up to £36,425.30 Multi-skilled Operative Location: Hastings Contract: Full Time Permanent Salary up to £36,425.30per annum, plus, company van & fuel card 42.5 hours per week (8-5 Monday- Friday) MPS has been looking after residents’ homes for over 25 years. As part of the Mears Group, we focus on estate management and property maintenance, delivering tailored solutions that support people and communities. We provide a wide range of services; including responsive repairs, planned works, and cyclical maintenance to over 100 local authorities and housing providers across the UK. One of our key partners is Orbit, a major housing provider in the Midlands, East Anglia, and the South East, managing over 45,000 homes. Together, MPS and Orbit ensure residents receive timely, high-quality repairs and maintenance, with a strong emphasis on customer care, safety, and long-term value. About the Roles: We are looking for a skilled and reliable Multi-Skilled Operative with strong plastering experience to join our responsive repairs team in Hastings covering Hastings to Brighton. This is a hands-on role working across occupied social housing properties, delivering high-quality repairs with plastering as your core trade, alongside supporting works across other trades as required. You’ll be completing day-to-day repairs following leaks, maintenance works, and general wear and tear, ensuring properties are left safe, secure, and finished to a high standard. This role suits someone who takes pride in their workmanship, works well independently, and understands the importance of good customer service when working in residents’ homes. Key Duties • Carry out day-to-day responsive repairs across social housing properties, • Will be required to carry our damp and mould duties, • Complete patch plastering, skimming, and making good to walls and ceilings, • Repair plaster damage following leaks, damp, or previous maintenance works, • Ensure finishes are left to a high standard, ready for decoration, • Undertake basic domestic plumbing repairs including leaks, taps, toilets, wastes, and pipework, • Complete minor tiling repairs, sealing, and finishing works linked to repairs, • Carry out basic locksmith duties such as lock changes and securing properties, • Complete general making-good works following repairs across all trades, • Work professionally and sensitively within occupied homes, • Accurately record works completed using handheld devices, • Identify and report any additional works or safeguarding concerns, • Participate in an out-of-hours emergency call-out rota where required, • Maintain company vehicle, tools, and equipment Role Criteria: • Proven experience in plastering, including patching, skimming and making good, • Experience working within domestic or social housing repairs, • Experience in Damp and Mould duties, • Ability to carry out multi-skilled works, including basic plumbing, wall/floor tiling and minor locksmith duties to support repairs, • Willingness to assist and support additional trades alongside plastering works, • Comfortable managing jobs independently from start to finish, • Strong attention to detail with a right first time approach, • Professional and customer-focused manner when working in residents’ homes, • Good understanding of health & safety procedures, • Confident using handheld devices for job updates and reporting, • Full UK driving licence, • Own hand tools, • Willingness to join an out-of-hours emergency rota Benefits we can offer you. • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, • Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!, • Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment., • Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more., • Family friendly policies, • Company Van, Fuel Card, and Uniform All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship. To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points. Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment. Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact: Francesca Swan () If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way. At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all. We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers. In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.

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