Your new company

A housing association which provide and manage c.500 social homes across Tower Hamlets, Hackney and the City of London.

Your new role

• To assist in the provision of an effective repairs service for tenants' properties.

• To operate and ensure compliance with all maintenance and other relevant policies and procedures that are synonymous with good management practice, particularly those relating to equal opportunities and general work with the client group.

•To report on a daily basis to the Buildings Coordinator and carry out an assigned list of maintenance inspections and caretaking works of an urgent or day-to-day nature.

• Provide assistance to other members of maintenance staff, or external contractors where required, on maintenance repairs of a larger or more complex nature and voids.

• Where required to, provide general supervision of external contractors, including post-completion inspections, and to report to the Buildings Coordinator and failure to satisfactorily carry out or complete repairs.

• To order, and where necessary collect, goods and repair materials as required to undertake the assigned repair works.

• To keep an accurate daily timesheet, recording tasks undertaken during the day.

• To ensure that any actual or potentially dangerous situation relating to repair maintenance is immediately brought to the attention of resident and/or hostel manager and dealt with as an emergency.

What you'll need to succeed

Experience

•Candidates should be able to demonstrate a minimum 3 to 5 years working as a caretaker, with contractors or in employment of a similar nature.
•Consideration will, however, be given to candidates who can demonstrate their suitability for this type of work.

Skills/Abilities
• General competence at building maintenance-related tasks.
• Good customer care skills
• Ability to use initiative and organize and carry out a daily/weekly assigned workload with minimum supervision.
• Capable of keeping detailed records and issuing written orders and instructions.
• Good communicator, both written and spoken.
• Full UK Driving Licence (compliant with our insurer’s requirements).

What you'll get in return

An initial 3-month interim assignment with possibility of extension

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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