Roofer

  • The Guinness Partnership
  • Blackburn, Lancashire
  • Oct 17, 2025
Full time Construction

Job Description

Our Repairs and Maintenance teams play an important role in delivering our vision of providing great homes and great service. They offer vital support, ensuring that our homes are safe, warm, and dry, and where everything works; Places where our residents are proud to live.

We are looking for a Roofer to join our team covering Lancaster, Blackburn, Bacup and the surrounding areas, on a full-time permanent basis.

The successful candidate will live locally to ensure we are able to offer our residents a prompt and efficient service.In this role, you will deliver high standards of installation and repairs of roofs, ensuring that appropriate tiles, wood shingles and other necessary roofing materials, including built-up felt, are used. You'll also carry out associated activities within acceptable quality standards to support Guinness's targets for a first-time fix and deliver great customer service.

What we are looking for

We are a customer-focused organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. Reporting to the Service Manager, you'll be required to carry out remedial works to a high quality, ensuring that a customer-focused maintenance and repair service is delivered.

You will also be able to demonstrate the following essential skills:

  • Demonstrable competence as a Roofer
  • Skills and experience, sufficient to enable the completion of repairs at the first visit (first time fix).
  • Experience of working in a customer-focused environment within agreed performance targets.
  • Proven ability to work methodically, follow agreed procedures and accurately record data and information.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and demonstrate organisational and time management skills.
  • Ability to carry out physical tasks and lift weights in accordance with Health and Safety guidelines.
  • Ability to work at heights and have the stamina and balance to work on a range of roof types
  • Ability to operate safely, having taken into account any environmental circumstances and possible risks.
  • An ability to understand and put into practice any health and safety regulations involved in roofing works, in particular, working at height regulations.
  • Full, clean manual UK Driving License.

Qualifications

  • NVQ Level 2 (City & Guilds) Roofing Occupations or equivalent recognised competency.

Desirable:

  • PASMA.
  • CISRA Scaffolding Part I

If you're interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the role profile link below.

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