General Operative

Location Dublin
Discipline: Operatives & Trades
Salary: €40,750
Job ref: 009282
Published: 22 days ago

Am opportunity has risen for a General Operative to join the Portakabin Ireland Team in Donabate. The successful candidate will assist in the day-to-day duties of the Operations Department with the refurbishment, fitting out and installation of hire and sales units and small projects to ensure hire fleet and sales units are maintained, repaired and cleaned.

Role Details 

  • Salary: €40,795 per annum
  • Role based: Donabate, K36 K75
  • Contract type: Permanent 
  • Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays 

Role Responsibilities

  • Loading and off-loading, moving cabins.
  • Painting and decorating hire fleet.
  • Maintain, repair and clean hire fleet.
  • Maintain cleanliness of the yard
  • Maintaining high health and safety standards, cleaning standards and quality standards.
  • Ensure compliance with all legislation, codes of practice, industry guidelines and/or Company Procedures/Policies relating to Health and Safety, inclusive of COSHH

Benefits & Opportunities

  • Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
  • Contributory Pension
  • A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
  • Cycle to Work Scheme

There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin!

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who has:

  • Educated to Junior Cert standard or equivalent 
  • Practical operational experience within a construction environment 
  • Practical operational experience in painting, slinger/signaller operation and carpentry 
  • Forklift Licence (Counterbalance and Reach) (Desirable)  
  • Recognised slinger/signaller training (Desirable)
  • Full Driving License (Desirable)

Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.

We are conducting interviews during, or before, the week commencing Monday 15th April 2024.

About Portakabin 

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.

As an equal opportunities employer, Portakabin is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made.