Carpenter

Job title: Carpenter

Location: Hackney

Hours: 36 per week, 08.00 - 16.00

Contract Type - Temporary

Start - 20/03/2023- 18/06/2023

Hourly Pay: £20.25

Our client, a large housing association, are looking for someone to join their busy team as a Painter & Decorator.

Purpose of the Job:

To support our client in providing as directed, a high quality cyclical, planned and reactive repairs and maintenance service to internal and external elements of occupied and unoccupied properties, public buildings and associated external areas.

Provide outstanding customer service and excellent standards of performance to the public and residents.

RESPONSIBILTIES:

Carry out to the highest standard all aspects of carpentry and joinery repairs and installations, encompassing Carcass, first / second fix and bespoke carpentry fittings. Undertake a broad range of multi-skilled repair activities outside of the basic trade such as minor plumbing, glazing and finishing works to provide a comprehensive repair service.

Including but not limited to -

• Force entry and make good
• Ease and adjust doors, and windows
• Repair / replace windows, doors, frames, garage doors etc.
• Resin repairs to external joinery
• Replacement joinery doors, frames, windows etc. build other items as required
• Replacement ironmongery, grab rails, fixtures and fittings and the like.
• Staircases, flights, wall strings, treads, risers, handrails balustrade, posts etc.
• Stud partitioning & dry lining to walls.
• Repair / Replace floor & ceiling joists with associated metalwork.
• Repair / replace floor boarding etc.
• Ductwork and bath panels.
• Kitchen base/floor units, worktops, pelmet, trims etc.
• Carpentry and associated plumbing and finishing works to install complete sink base units
• Skirting, architrave, beads, window boards, rails, mouldings, shelving and like
• Manufacture formwork and cast minor concrete components sills / lintels etc.
• Repair / replace roof joists, purlins, fascia, soffit and barge boards etc.
• Fencing, gates and bin stores etc. hoarding to secure premises, boundary.
• Fire prevention works including smoke seals, specialist glazing, clearance etc.
• Undertake trusted assessor survey and report as requested
• Apply appropriate paint primer to new joinery, sealant to fixtures and fittings
• Decorations to newly fitted or repaired items of work
• Work at heights (with appropriate training) from e.g. scaffolding, ladders, cradles and mobile towers etc. and erect temporary work platforms.

Please note the successful candidate:

• Must have a valid Clean Full UK driving licence (vehicle provided)
• Must have knowledge of Health & Safety in the work place
• City and Guilds in NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry & or relevant experience
• May need a DBS check
• Has the ability to work both outdoors and indoors in a range of weather conditions with the appropriate PPE
• Has the ability to work both inside and outside with significant elements of work where there is exposure to noise, heat, cold and disagreeable or difficult surroundings or conditions
• Has the ability to work calmly and courteously with difficult tenants in the face of potential rudeness or confrontation

 References will be requested upon application.