Facilities Maintenance Assistant

Location

Devon | United Kingdom

Job description

South West Norse - Facilities Maintenance Assistant

• Location: County Hall, Exeter
• Salary : £24,627.20 per annum
• Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, working 1 Saturday morning per month

South West Norse represents the highly successful joint venture partnership between Norse Group and Devon County Council, providing a range of facilities management and contract services across the South West. We are currently recruiting a Facilities Maintenance Assistant to join our fast-paced team at County Hall in Exeter on a Fixed Term Contract for 12 months, to assist with general maintenance queries.

The Role:

For this role, you will be required to execute a diverse range of maintenance duties across the site, ranging from caretaking, cleaning and building management in accordance with the relevant guidance and ACOP (Approved Code of Practice). We are therefore seeking an individual with a broad knowledge around maintenance and repair tasks. You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring Health and Safety guidelines, policies and procedures are adhered to
• Perform minor repairs and maintenance tasks, both on a pre-planned and reactive basis
• Supervise on-site contractors for major works
• General site maintenance duties including cleaning and hygiene services when required
• Provide efficient Portering services within a timely under the direction of the Facilities Manager

Our Successful Candidate:

Whilst we are happy to provide ongoing support and training in the role, we are looking for you to have some previous experience across a building maintenance, caretaking or facilities management role. This will ideally include delivering a range of minor repairs and site maintenance duties. We will be looking for you to demonstrate:

• Ability to deliver a good level of customer service
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills, comfortable engaging with members of the public
• Self-motivated, with the ability to use your own initiative and work effectively under minimal supervision as well as part of a team.

Please read the attached job description and person specification to ensure you meet the criteria for the role before applying.

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage

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Salary

£24,627.2 per month