MULTI-SKILLED TECHNICIAN (JOINER)| FULL TIME | 37 HOURS PER WEEK | PERMANENT | £29,171

Connect Housing are looking to recruit a Joiner to join our busy friendly team, making a difference to the lives of our tenants and customers The role is based at our Property Services Depot in Leeds but you will be covering West Yorkshire and expected to travel to Dewsbury on a regular basis.

Joining our Team, you will provide an effective and efficient service, delivering day to day repairs in tenanted and vacant properties, carrying out first and second fix joinery to reactive/responsive repairs & maintenance, voids, cyclical maintenance and planned works' programmes. Multi-skilled with core skill in joinery and competency in other trade disciplines (e.g. plumbing), you will provide a high level of customer care, ensuring our tenants are left with a positive impression of the service and Connect.

Candidates will be able to show time served, or have a craft apprentice with substantial experience of joinery works to include cupboards and shelving, doors and frames, locks and furniture, external and internal screens windows, repair works including fencing and gates. With demonstrable experience of working in occupied properties, you’ll hold a relevant membership with a professional association, be City & Guilds / NVQ3 and hold a full driving license.

About us

Connect is a housing association providing over 3,000 homes and well-being and support services, across West Yorkshire. Our over-arching vision is for a sustainable and just society where good homes, neighbourhoods and opportunities help people enjoy happy, healthy lives.

In choosing Connect you will be joining a friendly team, who look out for each other. As an equal opportunities employer we recruit based on experience, attitude and values. Connect are committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the communities we serve and actively works to promote equality, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups such as disabled and LGBT+ communities.

We are proudly a disability confident employer, working to recruit and retain disabled people and we will offer you an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.

Key Benefits:

• Friendly and lively team
• 20 days basic holiday + public holidays. This rises with each year of service up to a maximum of 25 days + bank holidays
• BUPA Cashplan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company Vehicle for work use

Please note, Connect Housing reserve the right to close the role earlier and therefore we encourage early applications