Novus Property Solutions
Window & Door Fitter
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Burton, with travel required to tenanted and/or void domestic properties across the Derby and Uttoxeter area. Typically, Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week.
About the Role
As a Window & Door Fitter for Novus Property Solutions, you’ll be responsible for the safe, efficient, and high-quality installation, repair, and replacement of windows and associated fixtures within domestic properties. This is a hands-on role where attention to detail, pride in your workmanship, and a strong customer focus are essential.
The role goes beyond window fitting alone and will involve related multi-skilled tasks including making good, minor joinery, sealing, trims, associated repairs, and general finishing works. You’ll work in line with Novus standards, manufacturer guidance, customer requirements, and relevant health and safety procedures, representing Novus professionally and respectfully in residents’ homes.
What’s in it for you?
- Stable, long-term work supporting planned works, refurbishment, and property maintenance projects in domestic homes.
- Work-life balance with standard Monday–Friday hours, 39 hours per week.
- 23 days holiday + bank holidays, with the flexibility to buy or sell annual leave.
- Fleet Van/Fuel Card (business use).
- Pension scheme to support your future.
- Training and development – relevant to your role if required.
- Supportive operational and planning teams who help organise work effectively and keep jobs running smoothly.
- Refer a friend scheme – earn up to £1000.
- Additional benefits, including:
- Discounted healthcare scheme.
- High street & lifestyle discounts (including Tastecard).
- One paid volunteering day per year.
- Length of service awards.
Most importantly, you’ll be working in a role where your work genuinely makes a difference. You’ll help provide safe, secure, well-finished homes for residents, while being part of a respectful, inclusive, and professional team that values doing the job properly.
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An Outline Of Your Responsibilities And Experience
- Install, repair, and replace windows and associated components within domestic properties, ensuring all works are completed safely and to a high standard.
- Remove existing windows and prepare openings safely and appropriately before installation.
- Fit windows, frames, glazing units, and associated fixtures securely and accurately, in line with manufacturer guidance and Novus quality expectations.
- Complete associated multi-skilled works including minor joinery, trims, sealing, making good, ironmongery, locks, latches, handles, and general finishing.
- Carry out minor repairs and adjustments to UPVC, timber, and/or composite windows and associated fixtures, where competent to do so.
- Leave all installations neat, weatherproof, functional, and ready for customer use, ensuring work areas are clean, tidy, and safe on completion.
- Identify and report any additional repairs, defects, access issues, or health and safety concerns that may affect completion of the work.
- Work from job tickets or handheld devices, ensuring updates, photographs, and records are completed accurately and on time.
- Communicate professionally and courteously with residents before, during, and after works, explaining the work being carried out and treating their homes with care and respect.
- Work effectively with supervisors, planners, operational teams, other trades, subcontractors, SHEA, and customer service teams to support smooth delivery of works.
Experience
- Experience installing, repairing, or replacing windows within domestic properties is essential, along with practical experience completing associated multi-skilled finishing works.
- Experience working in social housing, tenanted properties, responsive repairs, planned works, or refurbishment would be advantageous.
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Essential qualifications
- Fenestration Installation Level 2.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Desirable qualifications and training
- NVQ Level 2 or above in Joinery, Carpentry, or a related trade.
- Relevant safe working accreditations such as Asbestos Awareness, Face Fit, Manual Handling, Working at Height, or PASMA.
A DBS check may be required, depending on the contract.
A Little Bit About Us
Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 129-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients. Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate.
At Novus Property Solutions, we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award-winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.
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