Labourer

The Vacancy

🔧 Labourer – WPS
📍 Walton-on-Thames ¦ 🏠 Social Housing

WPS has an exciting opportunity for a Labourer to join our Responsive Maintenance team, working from our Walton-on-Thames office on one of our social housing contracts.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering reactive maintenance works for our residents, helping to ensure their homes are safe, well-maintained and looked after 💙.

What you’ll be doing 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️

• Carrying out a variety of repair and renewal works
• Supporting and working alongside other trades when required
• Flagging up additional trade requirements to the Supervisor in a timely manner
• Completing certain tasks independently when appropriate
• Accurately completing daily work sheets, including work undertaken and materials used 📝
• Working efficiently and productively to meet programme timescales

What we’re looking for ✅

• A reliable and hardworking team player
• Strong communication skills and a practical, problem-solving approach
• Ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines
• High standards of workmanship and productivity
• A customer-focused mindset, with excellent service always at the heart of what you do 🌟

🔍 Pre‑Employment Checks:

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

How to apply ✨

If you’re interested in this opportunity, please apply using the apply button or link

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.