Maintenance Craftsperson (Joiner)

Job Introduction

Sodexo are currently looking to recruit an experienced Maintenance Craftsperson (Joiner) who will be part of a small multidisciplinary team based at Central Site providing a full range of maintenance services to both this and other properties within the Trust.

You'll undertake, unsupervised, a broad range of joinery maintenance, repair and installation work using hand, power and machine tools as appropriate.

You'll carry communication devices such as bleeps and radios etc as required, to facilitate an immediate response to emergencies, undertaking on call duties out of hours work and overtime as and when required.

Role Responsibility

• Carry out a wide range of tasks including statutory maintenance, planned preventative maintenance, fault rectification and general repairs to all properties occupied by the Trust. Measure up, set out, manufacture and install door sets, window frames, worktops, shelving, cupboards and drawers
• Apply varnish or polishes to work surfaces, cabinets and other new works as required
• Set out and install false ceilings. Make repairs to false ceilings
• Glazing repairs to timber, metal and PVCU windows and doors
• Fit safety and privacy films to glazing
• Obtain entry to locked rooms and make good as required
• Install and repair locks
• Cut keys of all types

Undertake a range of tasks of other building trades including but not limited to:

• Install/repair small areas of ceramic tiling
• Repairs to and maintenance of metal windows and doors
• Disconnection/connection of low voltage electrical supplies to door détentes
• Assembly of repairs to furniture
• Small patch plastering repairs
• Installation/repair of/to fixed furniture
• Install carpet tiles

The Ideal Candidate

• Time served apprenticeship or other equivalent approved training
• City and Guilds certificate in carpentry and joinery or other equivalent approved qualifications
• Certified training in use of woodworking machinery (training will be provided)
• Post apprenticeship experience in a building maintenance environment
• A high degree of self-motivation is essential as the majority of tasks will be undertaken without direct supervision
• Good informal communication skills

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to further engage ex-forces personnel and reservists.  Those applying for roles with us who meet the essential criteria advertised under the ‘ideal candidate’ on the vacancy advertised are guaranteed to progress within the selection process.