City Rooms
Multi‑skilled Maintenance Operative
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Job Offer Details
Location: Stepney Green + travel round London
Salary: £33,000 - £38,000 depending on experience level
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: Monday to Friday 09:00–17:00
UK Manual Driving Licence Required: Category B or above (*no more than 3 points accepted)
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced, multi-skilled maintenance operative to join our in-house team, looking after a portfolio of HMO properties across London. You will work on both reactive day-to-day maintenance and small projects such as partitions, refurbishments, and garden work, ensuring properties safety for our tenants.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out day-to-day reactive repairs at HMO properties across all London boroughs, including basic carpentry, minor plumbing, minor electrical, painting, decorating, and cosmetic refurbishments.
- Deliver projects such as building or altering stud partitions, general remedial works such as refurbishments.
- Minor remedial works: quick fixes, tiling, cosmetic updates, flooring repairs, and garden/grounds, general maintenance where required over multiple properties per day across designated patch.
- Identify issues on site, propose practical solutions, and complete works to a high standard with a “right first time” approach.
- Work from job tickets issued by the office, plan your day efficiently and in advance, ensuring required materials are available for the start of the job.
- Keep clear records, job status reports with photo and report uploads via Fixflo app and other systems.
- Arrange, collect, and purchase necessary materials under company approval and supervision in line with our procedures, ensuring value for money and minimal wastage.
- Ensure work complies with H&S regulation requirements, checking where necessary, use of required PPE.
- Respect tenants’ homes, ensure areas are left clean and tidy after works.
- Specific projects may require you to work in tandem with a colleague with the use of one company vehicle.
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Requirements
- Proven experience as a multi-skilled tradesperson, maintenance operative in residential property (HMO), social housing, or private rent sector experience is an advantage.
- Strong skills in at least two core trades: carpentry/partitions, painting/decorating, basic plumbing/electrics.
- Ability to work on your own or with a team when needed, manage equipment, workload, and high standards.
- Good oral and written communication skills, good computer and app knowledge.
- Full UK manual driving license is needed for the role, though not always initially essential.
- This role involves driving company vehicles. Applicants must be eligible to drive under the company's fleet insurance policy, details of which will be confirmed at the offer stage.
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Desirable
- Full UK manual driving license is needed for the role, though we will consider candidates who don’t.
- Experience working within HMO properties, student lets, or other multi-occupancy housing.
- Any relevant qualifications (e.g. NVQ in a core trade, basic electrical, health and safety certificates).
- Experience with basic IT or mobile apps for receiving jobs and uploading photos/notes.
Benefits
- Vibrant office environment and fresh fruit on offer daily.
- Birthday Day off, Wellness Day along, eye test.
- Employee benefits and discounts packages.
- Additional annual leave and sickness pay accrual with length of service.
- Summer and Winter Annual Company Parties, Other Activities.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for CityRooms, please do not hesitate to apply.
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