We have a fantastic opportunity for a Multi Trade Operative to join our Portaloo team in Crawley.
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 the agreed design specification. 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 Friday.
Please note, you must have a full UK Driving licence to be successful in this role as there will be frequent travel to customer sites.
Role Details
- Starting Salary: £30,115 / £14.85 p/h + London Weighting £1.38 p/h
- Opportunity to earn additional hourly rate between £0.25 p/h to £4.38 p/h, based on skill set and behaviours.
- Role based: Crawley
- 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.
- Carrying out basic plumbing and electric tasks.
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.
About Portakabin
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.
Portakabin now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.
