Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Maintenance Decorator
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Maintenance Decorator
Location: Mailbox, Birmingham
Hourly Rate: £16.30
Working Hours: Monday – Friday 0730 – 1530 (opportunity for overtime available)
General Overview
- To undertake improvement work, maintenance, and repairs to the fabric of the building.
- Responsibilities will be at the Mailbox Birmingham.
- To undertake any reasonable duties to maintain all services to the Mailbox in Birmingham.
- To carry out all works in compliance with MITIEs KPIs & SLAs at the Mailbox in Birmingham.
Impact
- This role has an important role within the workflow process.
- The person will be actively involved in developing detailed knowledge and the maintenance of building fabric on the Mailbox estate.
- Work is instructed on a planned and reactive basis.
Complexity
- Interpret and work from all instructions, drawings, and specifications appropriate to their own trade, without supervision.
- Set up new work appropriate to their own trade using relevant tools, equipment, and machinery, without supervision, as appropriate to his/her grade.
- To maintain workshops, plant rooms, and working environments in a clean, tidy, and safe condition.
- Where required, work off tower scaffolding, MEWP's, moveable gantry's, suspended cradles, fixed ladders, and step ladders.
- To carry out unsupervised maintenance and repairs and report any defects or unusual circumstances.
- Requirement to learn new techniques with training* as necessary.
- Scope of work will include entering plant rooms, roof elevations, car park, loading bay, and mall areas. Occasional exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances could be encountered.
- To understand the general working of the Mailbox Estate, so that work can be carried out in the most efficient manner, pro-active in developing new ways of working.
- To understand fully the inter-relationship between various maintenance crafts.
- To be contacted by radio and/or PDA to receive instructions. This can involve frequent disruption to work patterns.
- To be knowledgeable of and to work to the current regulations, codes of practice, Health & Safety regulations, and all safety rules both MITIE and Statutory.
- Produce, if necessary, a list of materials to carry out remedial repairs or alterations to the current task.
- Ensure all PPM work is carried out effectively in compliance with maintenance instructions.
- To maintain plant rooms workshops and working environment in a clean, tidy, and safe condition.
- To record information as required for the operation of the site's CAFM system.
- To understand the working of painting fabric repairs within the Mailbox Estate.
- To deal with new situations as they arise and pass on knowledge to others.
- To inform the immediate Maintenance Team Leader of any delays or difficulties encountered.
- To undertake any other duties as requested by Management, to comply with MITIEs contract KPIs & SLAs.
- To facilitate access and escort contractors when required.
- To ensure MITIE's SSOW are always followed.
- Staff will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skill. They will, however, progressively be suitably trained* to acquire elements of extra skills with the intention of reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply the ability where required to perform the above.
- Pass knowledge gained to others.
- Perform any other reasonable duties as instructed by your manager.
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Desired Qualifications or Required Experience
- The maintenance painter/decorator must have work experience in painting and decorating within a guest-focused environment.
- City and Guilds Institute Painting and Decorating Parts 1 and 2.
- Will have a good working knowledge of painting and decorating operations.
Competencies
- Professional appearance.
- Good communication skills (face to face/radio).
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ability to use own initiative, taking a proactive approach when appropriate.
- Ability to work alone or in a team.
- Ability to apply the application of knowledge gained through experience in dealing with a range of work procedures and practices, some of which are non-routine.
- Conscientious and reliable.
Benefits
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
- When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customize your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost, and much more!
- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms, and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month, and at the end of the year, there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
- Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
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Inclusion and Accessibility
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example, dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition, or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes, or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at.
About Mitie
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