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About the Role
Vita Student's next-level apartment design offers a variety of studios to suit our students lives with the privacy of living alone or the laughter of living together. We offer style, luxury & comfort to our residents, surrounded by premium amenities and a vibrant city life. Our Handy Person plays a critical function, ensuring the smooth running of operational building facilities. This is a customer-facing environment where you will be responsible for maintaining Vita Student’s highest building standards.
Responsibilities
- Painting & decorating.
- Respond to maintenance requests, promptly addressing reports of issues with plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, lighting, furniture, and other equipment.
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
- Conduct regular inspections of residence facilities to identify potential issues and performing scheduled maintenance tasks.
- Maintaining the bin store area.
- General repairs, such as fixing minor issues like leaky plumbing, broken fixtures, damaged doors, and wall repairs.
- Performing minor tasks like replacing flooring, repairing furniture, and touch-up painting & decorating.
- Ground works, maintaining the upkeep of outdoor areas such as grass-cutting & hedge-trimming/shaping and jet-washing.
- Safety compliance.
- Adhering to all safety regulations and procedures when performing maintenance tasks.
Requirements
- Professional Painting & Decorating experience.
- Experienced delivering preventive and corrective fire alarm and firefighting system maintenance.
- Skilled across a variety of maintenance functions.
- Well-versed in delivering Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) within a similar environment.
- Demonstrable understanding and adherence of safety compliance regulations and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong organisational and leadership qualities with an ability to remain calm under pressure.
- Adaptability, creativity & positivity.
- Resilience, with an ability to effectively navigate unexpected situations.
- Able to carry out tasks that may involve extended periods of standing and repetitive movements, with reasonable adjustments considered where required.
- All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks which will include Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks.
- Unable to offer Right to Work Sponsorship.
Skills
- Painting & Decorating
- Maintenance
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Heating/Cooling
- Lighting
- Furniture Repair
- Flooring Replacement
- Ground Works
- Fire Alarm Maintenance
- Firefighting System Maintenance
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
- Safety Compliance
- Communication Skills
- Organisational Skills
- Leadership Qualities
- Adaptability
- Creativity
- Positivity
- Resilience
Location
- Lewisham
Work Type
- Permanent
- 42.5 hours per week
- Monday – Friday 9am – 6pm
Experience Level
- Professional Experience
Salary/Compensations
- £30,000 per annum plus bonus
Benefits
- Annual Bonus: Calculated & rewarded subject to achieving targets set against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's): Reducing external contractor call-outs fees, meeting pre-set Service Level Agreements (SLA's), preventative maintenance management, feedback and building compliance.
- Holidays – Holidays are paid on a pro-rata basis which is reflective of hours worked. Customer Service Assistants will receive 28days paid holiday including England & Wales Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
- Perkbox – All employees are given access to a Perkbox account, enabling them to choose lifestyle perks that matter by giving points to spend on a wide range of products, services & experiences, such as; cinema tickets, supermarket savings, discounted days out, a daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone!
- Royal London Pension – Vita Group contribute a financial value of 3% of salary to your pension pot in addition to 5% employee contribution.
- Parties & Events – Hosting parties and events each year.
- Recognition Programmes – Employee of the month vouchers, community champion, experience awards, golden buzzer awards, work anniversaries etc.
- Career Development – Induction and learning & development programme, delivering professional progression via our Bronze, Silver, Gold & Platinum training & recognition schemes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance – Access to a confidential service offering support and guidance for personal or work-related issues.
About the Company
- Vita Student's next-level apartment design offers a variety of studios to suit our students lives with the privacy of living alone or the laughter of living together.
- We offer style, luxury & comfort to our residents, surrounded by premium amenities and a vibrant city life.
- Vita Student operate a multi-cultural environment, welcoming colleagues and residents from all over the world with a variety of cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs.
- All Vita colleagues must deliver a diverse and equal approach to colleagues and residents alike.
- Our employees have the pride of working at our luxury properties, which offer the highest standard of resident accommodation across the UK.
Equal Opportunity
- Vita Student operate a multi-cultural environment, welcoming colleagues and residents from all over the world with a variety of cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs. All Vita colleagues must deliver a diverse and equal approach to colleagues and residents alike.
- English will be the primary spoken language; however multi-lingual skills would be warmly welcomed.