General Building Labourer

About The Role
What you can expect from us

• We offer a competitive salary of £26,250 per annum.
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
• Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%)
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
• cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
  Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

About the Role
We are looking for a General Building Labourer to join our Onward Repairs team on a permanent basis.
The purpose of the role is to deliver property maintenance services by assisting the Building Technician. Assist in carrying out repairs in line with all group standards and key performance indicators. Ensuring high standard at all times, observing all legal, statutory and regulatory requirements while undertaking repair activities within customer's homes, voids and for other clients as required.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery

• In line with Repairs specification or approved best practice assess, assist in coordinating and undertaking the most cost effective repair solution whilst delivering value for money. Organising materials, providing detailed information, effectively communicating with customers, other stakeholders and colleagues to deliver a high quality service.
• Ensure an adequate store of materials are available to operatives, including van based stock. Proactively organise workload to ensure the delivery of an efficient and effective service at all times.

Customer Service

• To provide excellent customer service whilst ensuring prompt work of the required standard.

Liaison and technical advice

• Liaise with clients, customers and colleagues regarding access, safe working practices, and assessment of repairs requirements and progress of repairs.

Quality

• Assisting Building Technician in Ensuring all work is delivered to a high standard.

Records

• To complete jobs on PDA's and maintain other records as required including access details, materials used, job progression and follow on information.

Health and Safety

• Undertake work activities in line with all health and safety requirements demonstrating a sound working knowledge of key legislative health and safety information and safe working practices. Assisting the promotion of Health & Safety.

Work equipment

• Operation of light machinery, plant and powered hand tools in accordance with recognised safety procedures. To be responsible for the safe use and daily maintenance of allocated Company vehicles.

Skills / Experience
Essential:
• Knowledge of building construction, components, building trades and applicable building regulations.
• Experience of working in a customer focussed service.
• Proven ability to deliver a quality customer centred repairs service.
• Experience of working / assisting in a target driven environment.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations, regulation and ACOPS relevant to the post and associated tasks undertaken within it, in line with HASAWA 1974.
Desirable:
• Experience of working within a commercial and domestic property maintenance environment.
• Experience of delivering services within the social housing sector.
• Experience of using PDA technology (hand held/mobile working technology).
Qualifications
Essential:
• Studying towards a L2 NVQ or equivalent qualification in bricklaying / roofing and relevant experience.
• Appropriate CSCS card.
Desirable:
• Hold relevant health & safety qualifications which relate to the sector/construction industry in general.
• Asbestos awareness training.
• Relevant power tool training.
• Manual handling training.
• Appropriate and current training in COSHH & PPE.
• Access equipment and working at height training e.g. mobile work platforms.

About The Organisation
About Onward
Onward Repairs is the in house repairs and maintenance service for Onward Homes, keeping customers' homes safe, secure and well maintained. Our skilled teams deliver responsive repairs, planned works and voids services, combining high standards, strong teamwork and a customer first approach. We invest in our people and take pride in making a real difference to our communities.
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.