Vacancies at Clearview

We are looking for an experienced Installations Manager to join our high profile, top quality, fast moving and forward-thinking business. This is a highly valued, integral role, customer facing, offering variety and an opportunity to promote and protect our quality products and brand.

Role Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that all installations deliver a quality product in an efficient, cost effective and timely manner, providing first class customer satisfaction;
• Responsible for reviewing contracts, issuing work to surveyors and assisting surveyors with any technical challenges, ensuring all external and internal contractors achieve deadlines;
• Responsible for scheduling work for our fitting teams and other external contractors ensuring that all building work runs smoothly;
• Be the first point of contact for liaising with all trades to ensure a smooth continuity of work and a first-class operation for customers;
• To attend site to oversee any issues that may arise with the installations, ensuring health and safety is adhered to, site housekeeping standards are maintained and the client is satisfied with the installation;
• Ensure contracts are completed on time and to a high-quality standard
• To develop excellent working relationships with external and internal stakeholders including customers, suppliers and dealers.

Person Attributes

• Previous experience and strong knowledge of the window/conservatory industry
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability bring installations in on completion date;
• Strong negotiation skills with a focus on achieving budgets and maintaining profitability.
• Excellent product knowledge, keeping up to date with industry and new product developments;
• Strong technical capability, with the ability to understand the theory of installation processes
• Good commercial and business acumen;
• Excellent people management skills, with the ability to provide strong leadership and direction;
• Excellent IT skills;
• A positive “can do” attitude with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Effective time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks;
• A strong communicator with ability to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication;
• Clean driving license.

Please send your CV and covering letter detailing your salary expectations including the added value you can bring to our business using the form below.

The role essentially will consist of checking individual customer’s ground conditions to ascertain the type of foundation that is required for each individual build we undertake, along with checking on drainage runs and how these may also affect the proposed build.

Duties will include-

• Making appointments with customers and booking in the test dig with the building manager.
• Meeting on site with individual customers.
• Digging pilot holes in various places to confirm ground conditions and report back the results with photos.
• Checking on existing drainage runs and reporting these back with photos.
• Identify any other problems on site that may affect the build prior to starting, for example trees (type, size, distance to proposed foundations etc.).

Skills Required-

• Experience in the construction industry and in particular ground works.
• Good understanding of ground conditions and foundations.
• Basic IT skills to enable reports to be filled in and sent electronically if required.
• Self-motivated and well organised.
• Good communication skills and an approachable personality.
• Driving license essential.

The successful candidate will report direct to the building manager and feedback the results on a daily basis to enable a smooth and well organised process for each individual customer.

This position is a good opportunity to further the successful candidate’s career within one of the North West’s leading home improvement company’s.

If your interested in this position please complete our form below.

Our Preston showroom is becoming increasingly busy at the weekends. To ensure our Sales Support team is able to cope with the high volume of people visiting, we’re looking to take on a new weekend Sales Support specialist. Working out of the Preston site on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays, the successful applicant will work between the hours of 10am-4pm.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent customer-facing skills as you will be frequently greeting customers upon their arrival to the showroom. You will also be capable of communicating and discussing product interests and the various USP’s of Clearview Home Improvements, as well as booking face-to-face, telephone and web appointments.

Full training will be provided, with an immediate start after interview (there will be two interviews). The hourly wage is £7.50 per hour. Additional duties in this busy role will include the following:

• Managing the phones
• Dealing with any new enquiries that have been submitted online or via our telephone answering service, responding to the latter accordingly
• Handling the stock of brochures
• Inputting leads into the computer system
• Passing on various customer messages onto Monday weekday staff/installation team etc.
• Matching up diaries and correctly keeping count of leads
• Supplying salesmen with leads for Monday
• Leaving a note of anything not done so that colleagues can pick such duties up
• Dealing with quotes (time permitting)
• Any other duties issued by your line manager

If your interested in this position please complete our form below.

At Clearview, it is important to us that we deliver an exceptional service to our customers, so to achieve this it is vital that we have a team of talented and experienced window & door fitters. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Northwest's leading home improvement company as an experienced fitter, offering great earning potential and continuity of work. With exciting times ahead and increasing demand, we are continuing to expand our installation teams in the Lancashire & Cheshire area.

To be considered for the role you must have:

• Previous quality fitting experience
• A passion for delivering excellent customer service
• Be a good communicator
• Be self-motivated with the ability to work on your own initiative.
• Clean UK driving licence
• MTC Card

As an installer you will join a busy team reporting to the Installations Manager, and responsible for undertaking installations, ensuring an excellent quality service is achieved on all window & door installations.

If you want to further your career and feel you have what it takes to be a successful installer please complete our form below.

The role of Window Surveyor is part field and part office based.

In essence, the role is to take a contract from the point of sale to the point where it is ready for order processing prior to installation.

A good sound knowledge of the window industry and previous experience in surveying is essential.

Duties include:

• Making appointments with customers to carry out the survey.
• Meeting with customer at their home and reviewing the contract sold.
• Discussing and confirming with client all choices regarding design.
• Carrying out a comprehensive survey to determine manufacturing sizes.
• Identifying any discrepancies between the contract sold and the final work to be carried out.
• Liaising with Contracts Manager regarding any alterations to contract.
• Drawing up survey to enable order processing and producing paperwork required for installation.

Qualities required include:

• Previous surveying experience.
• Good knowledge of current Building Regulations.
• A methodical and accurate work ethic.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good working knowledge of the window/conservatory/building industry.
• Computer literate.
• MTC card or equivalent.
• Clean driving licence.

If you want to further your career and feel you have what it takes to be a successful installer please complete our form below.

The role of Conservatory Surveyor is part field and part office based.

In essence, the role is to take a contract from the point of sale to the point where it is ready for order processing prior to installation.

A good sound knowledge of the conservatory and building industry and previous experience in surveying is essential.

Duties include:

• Making appointments with customers to carry out the survey.
• Meeting with customer at their home and reviewing the contract sold.
• Discussing and confirming with client all choices regarding design.
• Carrying out a comprehensive survey to determine manufacturing sizes.
• Identifying any discrepancies between the contract sold and the final work to be carried out.
• Liaising with Contracts Manager regarding any alterations to contract.
• Producing full working drawings for Planning Applications, Building Regulations, Builders and Order Processing as necessary for each installation.

Qualities required include:

• Previous surveying experience.
• Good knowledge of current Building Regulations.
• A methodical and accurate work ethic.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good working knowledge of the window/conservatory/building industry.
• Computer literate.
• MTC card or equivalent.
• Clean driving licence.

If you want to further your career and feel you have what it takes to be a successful installer please complete our form below.

We are currently looking to recruit experienced, time-served bricklayers for one of our well established partner building companies.

To be considered for the role you must be in possession of a full, clean driving licence and a valid CSCS card.

It is also imperative that you can demonstrate a proven track record of carrying out bricklaying duties to the highest of standards, have a professional and friendly persona and always take pride in the work that you do.

Successful applicants will be working on a wide variety of residential property home improvement projects such as Conservatory, Orangery and Garden Room extensions within Lancashire & Cheshire.

If your interested in this position please complete our form below.

Window Fitters and Conservatory Fitters required at – Clearview Home Improvements

Clearview Home Improvements are a leading home improvement company supplying Conservatories, Orangeries, Double Glazing Windows and UPVC doors in Cheshire and Lancashire.

Due to continued growth we have several full-time positions available for experienced Window Fitters and Conservatory Fitters.

At Clearview, it is important to us that we deliver an exceptional service to our customers. To achieve this, it is vital that we have teams of Window fitters and Conservatory Fitters who are quality focused, experienced and passionate about providing excellent customer service.

In these customer facing roles, you will be expected to maintain and strength the Clearview Brand and reputation and provide our customer with an excellent fitting experience.

This is a great opportunity to work for a high profile, top quality, fast moving and forward-thinking business. We provide competitive rates of pay, opportunities for regular work, reliable, on time payments and immediate starts.

To be considered for both these roles you must have:

• Previous conservatory or window fitting experience; preferably with experience of fitting orangery’s
• A desire and determination to ensure all work completed meets the high-quality standards our customers expect;
• A passion, determination and drive to ensure you achieve deadlines, deliver quality work right first time;
• The ability to work within a team or on own initiative, you must be self-motivated and hardworking;
• Excellent planning and organisational skills;
• Good communication skills and an approachable personality.
• A positive “can do” attitude with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Effective time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks;
• Strong knowledge and experience of Health and Safety on site;
• Driving license;
• Relevant liability insurance