Job Ref: 215441461

Date: 2021-12-24 16:05:34

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The Vacancy

Our planned Maintenance team are looking to recruit a Decorating Maintenance Technician in the Investment Works team to assist with various tasks within the maintenance sector.

This will include the following activities-

Preparation of site
Internal & External decorating
Minor repairs
Team working
A good knowledge of building trades
Working at heights (ladder, tower & scaffold)
Completion of daily & weekly paperwork
H&S awareness
Deliver quality customer service
Clean driving licence
Preferably have experience in working in the Social Housing sector

As a Paradigm Technician working for our Direct Labour Operation (DLO), we’ll supply you with a fully equipped hybrid van (no insurance renewals or services to concern yourself with as we do that) and a fuel card to ensure you can get around easily. We’ll provide you with an electronic tablet where your you can see your scheduled jobs and access our intranet for the latest company news. You’ll also get a mobile ‘phone, work clothing and PPE and we’ll aim to book your jobs in your local area where possible.

You will be the face of Paradigm and will deliver a quality service to our customers in their homes, so a friendly and polite manner is as important as competence and high standards of work in your given trade. Paradigm employs more than 500 staff has over 15,000 properties, with an annual turnover of £150million, we are a financially strong, safety conscious, and an environmentally aware social housing provider. We endeavour to make the best use of our resources in order to provide a cost effective and professional service to our customers, we aim to provide a first fix service where possible, with professional, polite and competent people delivering and exceeding on our Customer Care Standards.

We offer a very generous package including the following: • Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions • Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate. • Annual Bonus potential • Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more • Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category! • Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions) • Opportunities for career advancement – if that’s what you want, but it’s fine if you don’t • Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

If the above appeals to you apply today and/or pass on these vacancy details to someone who may also fit the bill. What have you got to lose?

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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