Painter

PAINTER

• Location: across Nottingham City
• Salary:  £21 - £24 per hour
• Hours:  Monday – Friday     09:00 – 17:00     (37 hours a week)
• Full time, on site
• Clean UK Drivers Licence and own vehicle essential
• PC proficiency essential

Job Purpose: 

Our high-profile housing association client is looking for a skilled Painter to support the maintenance of housing assets, ensuring they meet statutory and regulatory standards.

The successful candidate will contribute to improving landlord-tenant relationships and ensuring health and safety standards are upheld.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain the integrity of property structures, ensuring essential appearance, stability, and protection from the climate.
• Perform all aspects of internal and external painting in domestic and commercial buildings, including stripping and papering walls, ceilings, and staircases.
• Work may involve textured finishes, specialist coatings, fire retardant work, and mould treatments.
• Utilise skills from other general trades to achieve first-time fixes where efficient and appropriate.
• Ensure installations remain in a reasonable state of repair, minimising inconvenience to customers.
• Mitigate risks of exposing residents to pollutants such as uncombusted fuel gas, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and smoke. - Undertake proactive fault finding, remedial works, and reporting, including identifying reasons for deterioration.
• Identify underlying causes of issues and deliver solutions, prescribing repair over replacement unless unsuitable.
• Adhere to best practices and cooperate with the employer to ensure a safe workplace for staff, customers, and the public.
• Assess, identify, and report any serious health and safety risks, including safeguarding issues, overcrowding, damp and mould, disturbed asbestos, excessive cold or heat, or building defects.
• Perform tasks with professionalism, diligence, care, and expertise.
• Comply with all relevant policies and processes, meeting individual and team success measures.
• Maintain professional qualifications, memberships, or licenses, and partake in employer-determined training.
• Complete tasks associated with work specifications and finishes schedules, including bespoke specifications.
• Train and mentor apprentices and support work experience or training needs as required.
• Engage in flexible and agile working to cover the service 24/7, as agreed.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Proven experience in painting and decorating, with a focus on both domestic and commercial settings.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations and best practices.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. - Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. - Excellent communication and customer service skills.

If you are a dedicated and skilled Painter looking to make a positive impact in the housing sector, please email your updated cv to Wendy at Reed.