Multi-Skilled Operative - Public Toilets

Job introduction

Would you like to work in a friendly team, and help keep our city clean and safe?

Do you have a full current driver's license?

Do you have a City and Guilds or mulit-trade qualification in a relevant trade discipline?

If so, we’d welcome your application to work within our Environmental Services service.

You will work a 37hr week, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. You will be required to be on call every 3rd weekend during the summer months (April-September), for which you will receive an on-call payment regardless of whether you are called in to work.

Interview date:TBC

For an informal discussion, please contact Judyta Pawlowska, Operations Manger judyta.pawlowska@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

You will be driving from site to site, keeping them in good working order by maintaining plumbing and fixtures and fittings. Your key tasks will be:

• Undertaking fault finding, maintenance repairs and new installations.
• Completing dynamic risk assessments, writing reports and worksheets, and taking photographic evidence of completed works.
• Working effectively to ensure labour and material costs are kept to a minimum.
• Providing a positive, inclusive, and accessible customer experience.
• Identifying and sourcing required materials including ordering at wholesalers.
• Working well as part of a team, linking with and supporting other trades to ensure successful completions of work.

You will need to:

• Possess a City & Guilds qualification or proven/equivalent experience within the plumbing and maintenance industry in one of the trade disciplines described below or a multi trade qualification, and capabilities to undertake works from the following selection: bricklaying, carpentry & joinery, plastering, plumbing, roofing, damp proof coursing, tiling, or glazing.
• Good knowledge of risk assessment
• Good knowledge of the building industry
• Good understanding of health and safety
• Have a full, current UK driving licence.

In return for your skills and hard work, we offer:

• Training and development opportunities
• 26 days holiday, including bank holidays
• Staff benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail shopping, travel and socialising to health and wellbeing
• Local Government pension scheme
• Full uniform provided

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).