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As a Plumber, you will play a key role in delivering high‑quality reactive maintenance and associated plumbing works for our residents. You’ll take pride in completing jobs to a high standard, ensuring work is carried out safely, efficiently and in line with agreed specifications. Working collaboratively with colleagues, you’ll help us provide an excellent customer experience while managing a varied workload and maintaining our commitment to a ‘Right First Time’ service.

What you’ll do

In this role, you’ll carry out a wide range of plumbing tasks alongside other related maintenance activities as required. Your focus will be on delivering repairs and installations on a first‑time fix basis, ensuring all work meets our safety standards, service levels and organisational values. You’ll keep your work schedule up to date using a handheld PDA device, communicate effectively with residents and colleagues, and ensure all job variations or issues are promptly reported. You’ll also help maintain appropriate van stock, work towards agreed KPIs and performance targets, and always uphold a professional approach, from maintaining a tidy workspace to providing excellent customer service.

What you’ll need

• A recognised plumbing qualification (e.g. NVQ, City & Guilds, or completed apprenticeship)
• Proven experience as a Plumber, ideally within a social housing maintenance environment
• Strong understanding of health and safety requirements relevant to the role
• Good communication and time‑management skills
• A full UK manual driving licence and own trade‑specific hand tools

When you join Peabody, you’re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered.

What We Offer

• 22 days’ annual holiday, plus bank holidays
• two additional paid volunteering days each year
• flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal
• 4 x salary life assurance
• up to 5% pension contribution
• Van, phone and fuel card provided with battery tools supplied

If this sounds like we are right for you and you’d love to be part of Peabody, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply now by submitting an anonymised CV and a short statement explaining why you’re the perfect fit for this role.

If you have any questions about this role, please email Talent Specialist, George Murphy at george.murphy@peabody.org.uk

Interviews will be taking place Friday 28th August, face to face in our Houghton Regis office

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.