Annual salary: up to £35,700.00
Multi Skilled Operative
Northumberland, Newcastle and Sunderland area
Full Time, Permanent, 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8am – 5pm
Salary up to £35,700 per annum, plus, company van & fuel card
Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.
About the Role:
We are looking for a passionate Multi Skilled Operative to join our rapidly expanding team in the Northeast of England to work within a busy responsive repairs environment. Reporting individual job actions from site to ensure our clients receive high levels of service and high satisfaction levels as well. As a Multi Skilled Operative your main duties will include repairs and refurbishment activities to our tenanted accommodation properties delivering best in class customer service and satisfying all safety, quality and cost control standards. The main role will be to complete general repairs on homes including changing doors, taps, baths, fixing radiators, fixing kitchen units, fire doors, carpets as well as plastering any ceiling and walls where required.
The role will also include property inspections this will require going into occupied properties and completing a property inspection form on a hand held pda, carrying out small repairs that you identify and can be done there and then and reporting any other issues bigger repairs to be planned at a later date.

Role Criteria:

• NVQ level 2 in either Plastering, Plumbing or Joinery
• Trade knowledge and experience 2 other trades
• Must hold a full UK driving License
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Flexible and willing to travel
• Excellent communication and Customer service skills
• All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

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

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.
Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Beth Dunford (beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk)
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.

• NVQ level 2 in either Plastering, Plumbing or Joinery
• Trade knowledge and experience 2 other trades
• Must hold a full UK driving License
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Flexible and willing to travel
• Excellent communication and Customer service skills
• All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship