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Roofer

The Guinness Partnership

Job Description

To apply for this vacancy, you must live locally. This is to ensure we are able to offer our customers a prompt and efficient service.

In this role you'll deliver high standards of installation and repairs of roofs ensuring that appropriate tiles, wood shingles and other necessary roofing materials including built up felt are used. You'll also carry out associated activities within acceptable quality standards to support Guinness's targets for a first-time fix and deliver great customer service.

What we're looking for

We're a customer-focused organisation so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. Reporting to the Service Manager you'll be required to carry out remedial works to a high quality, ensuring that a customer focused maintenance repairs service is delivered. You will also be able to demonstrate the following essential skills:

  • Demonstrable competence within required primary trade.
  • Skills and experience, sufficient to enable the completion of repairs at the first visit (first time fix).
  • Experience of working in a customer focused environment within agreed performance targets.
  • Proven ability to work methodically, follow agreed procedures and accurately record data and information.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and demonstrate organisational and time management skills.
  • Ability to make decisions and solve problems seeking any advice required.
  • Ability to carry out physical tasks and lift weights in accordance with Health and Safety guidelines.
  • Ability to work at heights and have the stamina and balance to work on a range of roof types
  • Ability to operate safely having taken into account any environmental circumstances and possible risks.
  • Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.
  • Full, clean UK Driving License
  • An ability to understand and put into practice any health and safety regulations involved in roofing works in particular working at height regulations.

Qualifications

  • NVQ Level 2 (City & Guilds) Roofing Occupations or equivalent recognised competency in the required trade.

Desirable:

  • PASMA.
  • CISRA Scaffolding Part I

If you're interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.

Your Welcome Bonus is payable in 2 parts. £500 is paid in your first month's salary and £500 is paid when you pass your probation. To be eligible for the Welcome Bonus you must be an external applicant and not currently employed by The Guinness Partnership.

Please note: Guinness employees who have left the company within the last 12 months are not eligible to receive recruitment incentive payments

About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Good luck with your application