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I'd be asking what boilers and type of systems you have experience working on. I'd be looking for a good knowledge of basic fault finding as well as how to go about logically solving intermittent faults. I'd want to know you knew basic electrical checks so you didn't kill yourself! Mostly I want to know I could get along with you in the future
Resitting my acs
if its social housing they will only be interested in how many boilers you can service in a day
if its social housing they will only be interested in how many boilers you can service in a day
It is part of a social housing contract. I will be expected to carry out maintenance and breakdown repairs as well as annual servicing. I have no problem changing parts and I can diagnose some faults but it can sometimes take me a while to diagnose faults.
What hour do you do and on average how many boiler service do you get done in a day. What happen if you are sent to a break down but you don't have the required part on the van? Do you inform the office that it needs to be booked back in for a repair or are you expected to go and get the part same day?Yep, I work social housing you need to stand your ground. I won't do anymore then I feel I can safely do it means giving work back to the office then so be it.
Surely you cant be expected to give each appliance a strip down and clean?If its social housing I'd make it very clear from the outset what you are and what you aren't prepared to do.
Some me places will give you 10+ properties a day to do and most are multiple appliance jobs.
What hour do you do and on average how many boiler service do you get done in a day. What happen if you are sent to a break down but you don't have the required part on the van? Do you inform the office that it needs to be booked back in for a repair or are you expected to go and get the part same day?
Surely you cant be expected to give each appliance a strip down and clean?
Who do you work for? I hope I get the job and look forward to working on plenty of different appliances. Doesn't bother what state the properties are in, some of the flats I go in now are so full of rubbish and filth I actually didn't believe anyone was living there.I average between 6-8 completed jobs a day, that could be breakdowns or services. Others do anywhere upwards of 10-15!! If you don't have the part you can go and get it time depending or book it. I do 8-5. Who is it your going to interview with? Pm me if you'd rather. What area are you in? In social housing you can get all the rubbish, dirty filthy flats, boilers that have not been maintained open flued appliances that have been left neglected. On the plus side you get a large varied workload learning many different makes and models of appliances.
That will be good to go out with another engineer before I start, just to see how the routine goes.Whenever you start at a new company they always send you out with another engineer anyway
mainly to learn the paperwork, but you can also pick his brain and find out what they expect in the real world and not the bull **** they feed you in an interview
Who do you work for? I hope I get the job and look forward to working on plenty of different appliances. Doesn't bother what state the properties are in, some of the flats I go in now are so full of rubbish and filth I actually didn't believe anyone was living there.
What do you know about my business, that's always my first question. If they don't know anything then it's the shortest interview ever! Don't want someone who isn't at all interested in my business!
Good luck tomorrow, hope it goes well.
Every company I have had an interview with ask me that and I always answered not a lot to be honest. What do they want you to turn around and say? what is on the website word for word as 9/10 that is utter rubbish anyway as every company always says the same.
I always go and say the same thing I'm hard working, been working in the trade x amount of time I can do this that and the other I take great pride in my work at other companies I have done this to help things work better/ more efficient.
The main thing with social housing work is can you sign your own name as that's all their worried about you putting your name to a boiler what ever the state of it.
If you get it buy a camera with time/date on it and a scanner as I was going around condemning boilers filling out the paperwork and someone else was going round after me turning them all back on so in the end I was taking photos and scanning the warning notice as there was never any history of who went back to turn them on. Also don't work late! They will get used to it and you will get more and more work to the point that you will be working 7am-9pm.
Thought I would update. Interview went ok, didn't ask a great deal about myself just what I have been doing really and then explained the role to me and a bit about the company. Hard to tell if I will get a job out of it or not. I'm happy to do a bit of overtime as it's all paid, when I stay past half 4 now i'm working for free and it happens more often than I would like. I have been told that I will be hearing within a week if I am successful or not. The test paper was ok, I didn't have a lot of time to answer the questions but I either knew the right answers or was on the right track with the majority of them. If I didn't know something I said that's something I would have to revise. Just a matter of waiting now, it's a company I would like to work for and I think I could learn a lot. Fingers crossed. Thanks to everyone for your replies.
I echo that ash, all the best fella!Fingers crossed ash!
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