Painter and Decorator

Company: Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
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Location: Pontefract
Job Description:

Job Title: Painter & Decorator

Location: Yorkshire Region (travel within local area required)

Rate of Pay: £15.83 per hour + performance-based bonus

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Hours: 39 hours per week

Shift Pattern

  • Monday to Thursday: 8:00 AM – 4:45 PM
  • Friday: 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM

Skilled Painter & Decorator Wanted – Work Across Yorkshire

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be responsible for delivering a range of painting and decorating services on domestic and commercial properties. This includes:

  • Preparing and painting internal and external surfaces
  • Carrying out surface repairs before painting (filling, sanding, etc.)
  • Applying a variety of paint finishes, including gloss, emulsion, and specialist coatings
  • Erecting access equipment safely (training provided)
  • Protecting surroundings with screening or dust sheets
  • Maintaining equipment and managing stock of materials
  • Following work schedules, plans, and safety protocols
  • Recording completed work using smartphone apps (training provided)

You may also support minor works and refurbishments as part of wider maintenance teams.

What We’re Looking For

  • At least 3 years of painting and decorating experience (checkable)
  • Ideally NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Painting & Decorating (or completed apprenticeship)
  • Solid understanding of surface preparation, paint application, and health & safety
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work to deadlines
  • Good communication and customer service skills
  • Comfortable using smartphones to log work and take photos
  • Full UK driving licence preferred but not essential.

What We Offer

  • Competitive hourly rate of £15.83 plus bonus for target work
  • Permanent, full-time contract with regular weekday hours
  • Opportunities for progression and development within a stable company
  • Supportive management and team environment

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 – giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

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Posted: June 6th, 2026