5478 Plasterer - L&Q

Title: Maintenance Technician Plasterer

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week

Salary: £41,000 per annum

Grade: DM Tech 05

Location: South (Southwark & Lambeth)

Persona: Mobile Working (van provided) contractual hours to be worked from various locations such as resident homes with ad hoc office attendance as required

Reporting Office: West Ham Lane, Stratford

Closing date for applications: 5th October at 11pm

Interview date 13th October at our Sidcup office.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Previous applicants need not reapply.

L&Q reserve the right to not shortlist applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications within the last 24 months.



Join Our Maintenance Team:

At L&Q, we're committed to providing safe, high-quality homes and outstanding services to our residents. We're looking for an experienced Multi-Trade Plasterer to join our Responsive Repairs team on a permanent basis. Across South London.

As part of our in-house maintenance team, you'll play a vital role in maintaining residents' homes, delivering high-quality repairs, and helping us achieve excellent customer satisfaction.



Your Impact in the Role:

As a Multi-Trade Plasterer, you will:

• Carry out a wide range of plastering repairs and maintenance works within occupied properties.
• Complete patch repairs, larger plastering works, plasterboarding, bond and set, finishing, and rendering.
• Undertake painting and decorating tasks to a high standard.
• Deliver quality work with a right first time approach
• Use your multi-trade skills to support a variety of repair and maintenance jobs
• Deliver excellent customer service during every resident interaction.
• Work safely and comply with all Health and Safety requirements at all times.
• You'll be provided with an L&Q van for business use, along with the power tools needed to carry out your role effectively.

What You'll Bring:

A recognised trade qualification, along with sound knowledge and practical experience in plastering. Or be qualified through time served in a similar Plastering role.

• Experience working within a housing maintenance, repairs, or building maintenance environment.
• Strong skills in plasterboarding, bond and set, finishing, and rendering.
• Confidence in painting and decorating, with additional trade skills highly desirable.
• Experience working across a varied housing stock.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A good understanding of Health and Safety practices.
• A full UK Manual driving licence.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

If you're a skilled plasterer who takes pride in delivering high-quality repairs and exceptional customer service, we'd love to hear from you.



About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q 

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

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