We have a fantastic opportunity for a Multi Skilled Operative to join our team in Oldham!
You will refurbish and fit out the complete range of Portakabin buildings to the highest possible standards including painting, decorating and generally configuring the layout.
Reporting to the Service Manager, you will assemble and install manufactured components to agreed design specification and tolerance. This includes the safe handling, moving, installing, and finishing to specification and within deadlines.
Flexibility is required in this role due to the workload of projects and rectifications which are based on and off site.
Your working pattern will be 39 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:45 to 16:30 and finishing early on Friday at 15:30 (inclusive of lunch breaks).
Role Details
- Starting Salary: £30,115 / £14.85 p/h
- Opportunity to earn additional hourly rate between £507 - £8,882 / £0.25 p/h to £4.38 p/h, based on skill set and behaviours.
- Role based: Oldham, OL2 6DX
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 24 annual leave plus bank holidays
Role Responsibilities
- Apply internal finishing such as painting and decorating,
- Adding internal partitions & trims to configure interior layout.
- Plan and undertake the preparation/decoration of all external product surfaces.
- Carry out basic joinery tasks inclusive of partition walls, doors, windows etc.
- Prepare units for safe transport.
- Install / Dismantle buildings e.g. connections to utilities, staircases, linkways following the supplied lift plan to move the building onto or off transport.
Benefits & Opportunities
- Option to buy 5 days of annual leave.
- Annual Christmas closure of the business
- Contributory Pension including Life Assurance Scheme.
- Included in Merit Rate Scheme which increases basic pay.
- A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services.
- A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)
There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin. Roughly one third of our roles are filled by internal candidates!
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone with basic joinery skills gained in construction as well as a basic understanding of industry trades such as plumbing, painting and electrical work.
The ideal candidate will also be a problem solver and used to planning and organising their work.
Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
What’s next?
We aim to respond to all applications within 7 working days.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on resourcing@portakabin.com
