Overview
Salary: Starting Salary at £33,981 pa, with future progression opportunities to £36,051, depending on skills and experience, plus company vehicle and additional earning opportunities through call out
Shift Hours: Permanent
Multi Skilled Operative – Plumber (Responsive)
Based in Great Yarmouth, but travel throughout Norfolk and North Suffolk required
Full time, 40 hours a week, Monday – Friday
Starting Salary at £33,981 per annum, with future progression opportunities to £36,051, depending on skills and experience, plus company vehicle and additional earning opportunities through call out.
Permanent Contract
About the role
We are recruiting for a Multi Skilled Operative with a main trade of plumbing and at least two other trades or skill set, to join our Responsive Team. The role will work to help deliver day to day works in occupied and empty homes, ensuring that works are carried out in a timely and efficient manner whilst providing a high standard of work to our properties.
Some of the main duties of the role will include:
- Delivering expert plumbing services while efficiently completing assigned tasks, with the flexibility to support additional trades such as drainage, carpentry, tiling, painting and decorating, general building, and plastering.
- To be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of repairs and maintenance in our homes.
- To support, when required with the with empty homes and planned works programme (including Aids and Adaptions)
- To help us provide an excellent service to our tenants, minimising call backs and maximising first time fixes.
For full details on the role, please see the job description.
About You
The successful candidate will have the following:
- Minimum of either full trade Apprenticeship or NVQ level two or appropriate trade experience within at least 2 different trades
- Full UK Driving Licence as travel throughout Norfolk and North Suffolk is required.
- Property Maintenance experience – ideally residential properties
- Basic/Good literacy skills to provide accurate notes on the system and to communicate digitally with colleagues.
- A positive can-do attitude and the ability to work independently and problem solve
All team members and colleagues working for Broadland will always be expected to act in a manner that is consistent with our corporate values and behaviours, as detailed in the job description.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and will join our on-call rota.
About Us
Broadland Housing Association offers more than 5,700 quality homes across Norfolk and North Suffolk believing that everyone deserves a home that meets their needs; we offer a caring, effective and high-quality service that is fair to everyone. We are one of the top 25 Housing Organisations to work for in the UK and feature in the top 50 organisations to work for in the East of England.
As the role requires attendance at Broadland premises candidates must live within a 45-minute commute of their base. Full details can be discussed at the interview process.
We offer staff many great benefits such as:
- Enhanced annual leave starting from 22 days, plus a day off for your Birthday, a Volunteering Day and a Personal day!
- Generous contributory pension scheme!
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme to support you when you need it!
- Health Cash Plan – claiming for things such as Eye Tests and Prescriptions as well as many other wellness and money saving perks!
- Company Vehicle provided
- Uniform, PPE and Power tools all provided!
- Lots of Training Opportunities!
- And many more – Please see our Benefits Document available on our website!
For full details or to apply, please visit our website: https://www.broadlandgroup.org/about-us/work-for-us/current-vacancies/ or if you have any questions regarding this role or any other vacancies at Broadland Housing Association, please contact our recruitment line on 01603 750109 and leave a message.
Closing date: midnight on Tuesday 28 October 2025
