Company: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Job Type: Permanent, FullTime
Salary: £30,559 - £33,366 per annum
Join our highly regarded Gypsy & Traveller service within a leading local authority.
We are a busy operational team that works on a range of maintenance projects for our tenants, who live on our 10 residential sites across Hertfordshire
Our team makes a real difference to our tenants by providing a maintenance service to their plot, the sanitary facilities and surrounding areas.
- Main base is Stevenage, although your day will be planned around the needs of the sites. We are a county wide service
- As well as the store at Head Office, each gypsy and traveller site has an equipped site office where you can prepare for your day and access materials needed.
- Work is varied and be carrying out fence repairs, plumbing fixtures to maintaining brick work and pre planned maintenance
- Maintaining tidiness in public areas, and to encourage tenants to keep their plots presentable
- You will required to take the on-call phone one week in every eight as part of our of hours service. The out of hours cover a 7 day week and are: 16:00pm – 08:00am Monday to Friday and 24 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday.
- Carrying out reactive/ emergency maintenance as well as planned improvements on our residential sites
- You will have access to a manual vehicle to travel to sites
- Tools are provided
Essential:
- Work Record of general maintenance skills and experience.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
- A full manual driving licence
- Excellent customer service skills
Desirable:
- A building qualification in either Electrical, Plumbing or Carpentry.
- Competent with Microsoft IT packages to manage training records, emails and electronic calendar
- Good record keeping skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Organisational Skills/ Time management