About the team
Join our highly regarded Gypsy & Traveller service within a leading local authority.
We are a busy operational team that works on a range of maintenance projects for our tenants, who live on our 10 residential sites across Hertfordshire
Our team makes a real difference to our tenants by providing a maintenance service to their plot, the sanitary facilities and surrounding areas.
The 11 sites are in the following locations:
Sites:
Barnet
Cheshunt
Hatfield
Hemel Hempstead
St Albans x 3
Stevenage
Tring
Watford x 2
About the role
*Main base is Stevenage, although your day will be planned around the needs of the sites. We are a county wide service
*As well as the store at Head Office, each gypsy and traveller site has an equipped site office where you can prepare for your day and access materials needed.
*Work is varied - carrying out fence repairs, plumbing fixtures to maintaining brick work and pre planned maintenance
*Maintaining tidiness in public areas, and to encourage tenants to keep their plots presentable
*You will required to take the on-call phone one week in every eight as part of our of hours service. The out of hours cover a 7 day week and are: 16:00pm – 08:00am Monday to Friday and 24 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday.
*Carrying out reactive/ emergency maintenance as well as planned improvements on our residential sites
*You will have access to a manual vehicle to travel to sites
*Tools are provided
Please click on below link to see what a typical day working on site consists of:
Day in the life of a Gypsy and Traveler Site Maintenance person
About you
Essential:
*Work Record of general maintenance skills and experience.
*Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
*A full manual driving licence
*Excellent customer service skills
Desirable:
*A building qualification in either Electrical, Plumbing or Carpentry.
*Competent with Microsoft IT packages to manage training records, emails and electronic calendar
*Good record keeping skills
*Ability to work under pressure
*Organisational Skills/ Time management
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.