Maintenance / Fabric Technician

Job Description

Do you live in or around the Alnwick area?

Are you an experienced Maintenance Technician / Fabric Engineer?

If so we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting in our facilities maintenance team, where you will be delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our multi-site clients.

• Salary: £28,119 or £31,364 per annum, depending on experience 
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Additional earnings available through overtime
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

If you have a full valid UK driver’s license, time served experience of multiple trades, and want to progress your career with an award-winning FM provider then read on….

You’ll be responsible for ensuring clients sites within your area are fully maintained and operating at full potential.

As an Arcus Fabric Specialist, you’ll enjoy working in a varied environment. You’ll be out and about on the road traveling to client locations throughout your area, delivering a high level of repair works and rectifying any defects to ensure our clients receive a high-quality service.

You will assist in the delivery of excellent customer service resulting in professional results, asset uptime, first time fix and quality workmanship.

We need you to come with experience of working in a building fabric / maintenance role previously, and with the skills and expertise to confidently and independently, carry out as many of the below tasks as possible:

• Patch Plastering/Rendering
• Protection where required
• Carpentry works
• Various floor coverings
• Wall Tiling
• General Repair work
• Changing lights and locks

Whilst we don’t need you to know it all, we do need you to have varied experience across a mix of the above trades. At Arcus we are passionate about retaining our top talent and love to promote from within, giving you the opportunity to either gain qualifications and/or experience in other areas of the business if that’s what you want.  

To be successful you will have:

Essential: 

• Time served experience across a mix of multiple trades, ideally in a building fabric role.
• Valid UK driver’s license
• Experience working within a customer facing environment 
• Confident using handheld IT Equipment for managing works and documentation
• Strong communication skills and work ethic.
• Awareness and knowledge of health & safety.

Desirable: 

• NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC in a building trade
• Experience working within a maintenance remit for a multi-site retail client.

Other benefits:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%.
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

Other Information:

• The role will involve working 40 hrs per week, Monday to Friday
• The role will also involve working 1 in 4 weeks on call

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed, please submit your application by clicking on the ‘apply’ button. 

Pre-employment checks

If you are successful, we will undertake standard pre-employment checks after you have been offered a job. This includes employment referencing, verifying your right to work in the UK, verifying your driving licence (if applicable) and a health assessment.

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