Carpenter – Band 7

Job Description

Job Category: Technical – Skilled Facilities
Location: Florfield Depot, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 08:00
End Time: 16:00
Salary: £20.25

Carpenter –

PURPOSE OF JOB:
To support Hackney Housing in providing throughout the London Borough of Hackney and other locations as directed, a high quality cyclical, planned and reactive repairs and maintenance service to internal and external elements of occupied and unoccupied properties, public buildings and associated external areas.

Provide outstanding customer service and excellent standards of performance to the public and residents of Hackney.

COUNCIL SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITY:
1. To ensure that duties are carried out in accordance with the Council’s policies and Code of Conduct, incorporating the principles of valuing diversity.
2. To inform, advise and respond to residents and colleagues as individuals, building a close working relationship with key stakeholders.
3. To take a proactive role, assuming personal ownership and responsibility for the delivery of excellent customer service within your area.
4. To support and develop the visions and values of the Housing Directorate.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Carry out to the highest standard all aspects of carpentry and joinery repairs and installations, encompassing Carcass, first / second fix and bespoke carpentry fittings. Undertake a broad range of multi-skilled repair activities outside of the basic trade such as minor plumbing, glazing and finishing works to provide a comprehensive repair service.

Including but not limited to –
⦁ Force entry and make good.
⦁ Ease and adjust doors, and windows.
⦁ Repair / replace windows, doors, frames, garage doors etc.
⦁ Resin repairs to external joinery
⦁ Replacement joinery doors, frames, windows etc. build other items as required.
⦁ Replacement ironmongery, grab rails, fixtures and fittings and the like.
⦁ Staircases, flights, wall strings, treads, risers, handrails balustrade, posts etc.
⦁ Stud partitioning & dry lining to walls.
⦁ Repair / Replace floor & ceiling joists with associated metalwork.
⦁ Repair / replace floor boarding etc.
⦁ Ductwork and bath panels.
⦁ Kitchen base/floor units, worktops, pelmet, trims etc.
⦁ Carpentry and associated plumbing and finishing works to install complete sink base units
⦁ Skirting, architrave, beads, window boards, rails, mouldings, shelving and like
⦁ Manufacture formwork and cast minor concrete components sills / lintels etc.
⦁ Repair / replace roof joists, purlins, fascia, soffit and barge boards etc.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
⦁ Hold a clean full  UK Drivers Licence
⦁ City and Guilds in NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry & or relevant experience.

SKILLS & ABILITY
⦁ Able to work as a member of a team and self manage duties when working alone.
⦁ Able to prioritise and use own initiative in organising and undertaking tasks.
⦁ The ability to follow drawings and plans.
⦁ Good practical skills with a careful and methodical approach to work.
⦁ Good numeric skills for calculating quantities.
⦁ A polite and professional manner for dealing with customers.
⦁ Able to work from heights and follow safety instructions.
⦁ Has good communication and customer service skills both verbally, written and face to face.
⦁ The ability to erect a temporary platform to carry out work from, following appropriate Health and Safety procedures.
⦁ To work in confined spaces, with noise and dust etc. while wearing the correct PPE.
⦁ Provide reasonable performance and productivity in conducting all your duties in relation to your work and all work related documentation.

STANDARD CLAUSES
⦁ Commitment to Hackney Council’ core vision and values.
⦁ Commitment to a culture of learning, development and empowerment across the organisation.
⦁ Wholehearted commitment to the principle of achieving equality of opportunity and celebrating diversity.
⦁ Commitment to team working.

Hackney Council’s Requirements:
⦁ Commitment to Hackney Council’s core vision and values.
⦁ Commitment to a culture of learning, development and empowerment across the organisation.
⦁ Wholehearted commitment to the principle of achieving equality of opportunity and celebrating diversity.
⦁ Commitment to team working.

Other Special Requirements:
⦁ Ability to work both outdoors and indoors in a range of weather conditions with the appropriate PPE.
⦁ Ability to work both inside and outside with significant elements of work where there is exposure to noise, heat, cold and disagreeable or difficult surroundings or conditions.
⦁ Ability to work calmly and courteously with difficult tenants in the face of potential rudeness or confrontation.