Job Description

What are the pay and benefits?

• The salary for this role is \xc2\xa330,268 for a 40 hour full time permanent position
• Work Van and fuel card
• 26 days holiday entitlement plus Bank holidays , rising to 30 days with length of service
• Working days are predominately Monday to Friday days
• It is essential for the successful candidate to have a full drivers licence and access to a car
• The successful candidate will need a basic DBS check in place, which we pay for.
• Pension scheme
• Sick Pay
• Colleague Referral Scheme (\xc2\xa3250 per referral)
• Uniform
• Time for Talking - a free counselling service
• Health Cash Plan
• Savings Scheme
• Cycle to work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
• Eyecare plan
• Give as You Earn charity donation scheme
• Gym and shopping discounts
• Pobl socks and Pobl Bobl hats!

What is the role?

You will provide a repairs and maintenance service to our properties and will be expected to carry out a range of specified building maintenance works both as an individual craft professional and as a member of a multi-skilled team.

The role requires you to predominately work on reactive team carrying out repairs in tenanted properties. We may ask from time to time for you to assist in other parts of the business such as voids works where you will carry out repairs in our unoccupied properties.

Our Pobl Trades Team in the East covers the area of Gwent and surrounding areas including Rhondda Cynon Taff and parts of Powys. Our office base is Cwmbran

What skills and experience do you need?

• Proven experience of plumbing and carpentry undertaking repairs and maintenance on domestic and commercial properties.
• The required level of qualifications and education and experience to carry out all tasks required reasonably expected to be undertaken as per the post (we require evidence of qualifications)
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working in customers homes
• Awareness of Health and Safety requirements appropriate the to the role
• Ability to record, update job requests using a mobile device as required
• Ability to use own initiative.
• Enthusiastic and positive outlook.

Our values are positive, connected and considerate. At Pobl, you will share these values and be motivated to work in an environment that is driven by them.

FREDIE

At Pobl Group we are guided, in all that we do, by a group of principles that we call FREDIE, these are: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement. This means that whatever your background, you will have an equal opportunity at Pobl Group and we encourage you to apply now.

How do you apply?

If you have the skills, experience and enthusiasm required to be our next difference maker, please follow the prompts to apply now. We just need an up-to-date CV, short/ focused cover letter along with a few contact details so that we can get back in touch with you. Interviews will be taking place week commencing 19th February in our Cwmbran office.

If you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require to support you to application process, please contact or 0300 3735262

Who are Pobl Group?

Pobl Group provide high quality housing that is affordable in communities that are safe, attractive and supported to thrive. We manage over 16,000 homes and will be investing \xc2\xa3100 million, creating 3000 new homes in Wales over the next 5 years. Working closely with many partner organisations to achieve much more than we could alone, we listen to our customers to deliver innovative local services that make a difference.

Trades are the Operational Delivery team within Pobl to deliver over 40,000 reactive repairs alongside the Empty Homes and Planned upgrade programme. Within our structure of over 80 engineers, and Sub Contractor framework we operate using a Total Mobile IT system alongside Pobl\'s housing management system to administer, report and manage the end-to-end process.

Advertised: 02 Feb 2024 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 13 Feb 2024 GMT Standard Time

Pobl Group