Premises Assistant

Skanska; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in Chelmsford is seeking a Premises Assistant to support the Building Services team. The role involves assisting the Premises Manager, maintaining hygiene standards, and ensuring maintenance tasks are completed as per requirements. The ideal candidate will have excellent customer service skills and experience in maintenance or handyperson roles. This position offers a chance to be part of a diverse team committed to delivering high standards.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Onsite Premises team in the provision of a caretaking Service within the school.
• Comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including Health and Safety legislation.
• Ensure all planned and reactive maintenance is carried out as determined by PPM plan.
• Monitor cleanliness of the school premises and report deficiencies.
• Manage CoSHH onsite operations.
• Ensure smooth operations of the Hydrotherapy Pools.
• Operate heating plant to maintain required temperatures.

Skills

Excellent customer Service and communications skills

Planning and prioritising skills

Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines

Maintenance or Handyperson experience

Pool plant and maintenance experience

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Premises Assistant to join our Building Services team located in Chelmsford, Essex. The role will be to assist the Premises Manager and team onsite, liaise with our Helpdesk, cleaning and grounds teams ensuring our service is delivered to the highest standards. This role will involve building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders to deliver the requirements of our customers

What you'll do:

• Contribute to the Onsite Premises team in the provision of a caretaking Service within the school.
• To comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including Health and Safety legislation and safe systems of work.
• To ensure all planned and reactive maintenance is carried out as determined by PPM plan, Helpdesk, and line manager.
• Monitoring and ensuring the cleanliness of the school premises and furnishings and reporting any deficiencies Line Manager and to the Helpdesk.
• Contribute to the management of CoSHH onsite
• To ensure the smooth operations of the Hydrotheraphy Pools (Columbus School and College Only)
• Operating the heating plant so that the required temperatures are maintained in the premises and an adequate supply of hot water is available. Carrying out frost precaution procedures as appropriate.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Excellent customer Service and communications skills
• Planning and prioritising skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Maintenance or Handyperson experience
• Pool plant and maintenance experience

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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