Facilities Maintenance Assistant

Norse Group; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A facilities management company is seeking a Facilities Maintenance Assistant in Exeter. This permanent role involves executing diverse maintenance tasks, ensuring compliance with Health and Safety guidelines, and supervising contractors. Candidates should have prior experience in maintenance roles and exhibit strong customer service and communication skills. A full UK Driving Licence is required. The position offers a competitive salary and a 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in building maintenance, caretaking, or facilities management.
• Ability to demonstrate customer service skills.
• Comfortable engaging with members of the public.

Responsibilities

• Execute maintenance duties across the site.
• Perform minor repairs and maintenance tasks.
• Ensure adherence to Health and Safety guidelines.
• Conduct compliance checks and remedial repairs.
• Supervise on-site contractors for major works.
• Provide efficient portering services.

Skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Job description

Overview

Facilities Maintenance Assistant required in Exeter

£29,556.80 pro rata

40 hours per week

Monday to Friday, 8:30am-5pm

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 in Exeter on a Permanent basis to assist with general maintenance queries.

A full UK Driving Licence is required for this role.

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
• Visiting sites for compliance checks and remedial repairs
• 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 job description and person specification to ensure you meet the criteria for the role before applying.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate; payment will be met by the employer.

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 date you apply, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.