Housing Repairs & Maintenance Plumber

• Directorate BHCC:
  Homes and Adult Social Care
• Salary £39,209 - £41,212 total pay including 5.5hrs p/w contracted overtime
• Contract Permanent
• Closing Date Apply by 1 February 2026

Brighton

Job reference

• Positions available 2

• Working hours 37 hours plus 5.5 hours contracted overtime
• Closing date 1 February 2026

• Job category Housing

• Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council

We are recruiting for experienced and enthusiastic tradespeople to join our Housing Repairs and Maintenance Team.

Do you want to support the residents of the city with their plumbing repairs? Do you want to focus on your trade and not source materials, write quotes or chase customers for payment? Do you have a full clean drivers licence? Do you have a City and Guilds or NQF level 2 or equivalent in plumbing?

If so, we’d welcome your application to work within our busy Housing Repairs and Maintenance Service.

For an informal discussion, please contact Dave Hall, Project Manager - da

You will carry out high-standard plumbing repairs and refurbishment activities for our residents’ homes, delivering high customer service and meeting all safety, quality and cost control standards.

You will mainly be working in occupied properties within the Brighton and Hove area either on your own or in a small team. The key tasks will be:

• Tracing and repairing leaks.
• Detecting, locating and diagnosing faults and providing written reports where necessary.
• Installing and repairing pipe work, tanks, cylinders, fixtures and fittings and sanitaryware (baths, WC pans, cisterns and wash hand basins etc).
• Making good to finishes including patching in tiles, removing and refixing panels and applying silicone sealant.

Our residents come from a variety of backgrounds and some are vulnerable so you will need to be comfortable interacting with a wide range of people.

Our team members say they enjoy working in Housing Repairs because "Every day is completely different, we really get a chance to help people from the local community and it feels great to have made a difference at the end of the day".

In return for your skills and hard work, we offer:

• A standard working week of 37 hours per week plus 5.5 hours of contracted overtime (Monday – Friday 08.00 – 17.00). Part-time hours are available.
• The opportunity to take on additional call out shifts if you want to.
• A full induction with job shadowing in your first week and on-going development.
• Your own allocated fleet vehicle for work use.
• Paid annual leave.
• Pension scheme.

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is term-time only. For part‑time applicants, where your working week is less than the council’s basic 37‑hour week, contracted overtime rated pay will not form part of your working hours. This is because overtime rated pay is payable for hours worked in excess of the council’s basic 37‑hour week. Your starting salary will be pro‑rate based on the basic annual salary elements of pay between £32,061 & £33,699.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Please note that this post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Criminal Records Check.