Total 4 Junior Executive level Maintenance / Repair job vacancies in Chester, Cheshire, CH4 0DR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Details of the Role

The role of Facilities Assistant will be to assist in ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective day to day running of the Facilities Department & Estates service through the satisfactory performance and completion of planned preventative maintenance, cyclical programs, and other required duties.

The Facilities Assistant will be reporting to the School Assistant Facilities Manager and will be responsible for providing a safe and fit for purpose school premises for pupils, staff, visitors and volunteers to complete their day-to-day activities. This will include ensuring that all school operations comply with relevant legislation, assisting with routine building inspections to detect and report any defects to the Facilities Manager/ Assistant Facilities Manager, and undertaking an appropriate programme of repair and maintenance for the property and grounds.

We are looking for a candidate who has experience in managing facilities within a large school or similar setting, strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, and has the initiative and ability to work without direct supervision, taking entire responsibility for tasks, prioritising and scheduling own workload. A Full driving license with access to a car is essential.

What the school offers its staff

About ELT

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• Opportunities for professional development and leadership
• A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Commitment to safeguarding

ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

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Serco is a Disability Confident Employer committed to employing and retaining people with disabilities. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates. We’re a proud holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard and we actively encourage applications from females, those with disabilities or from an ethnic minority background.

Maintenance Assistant
J&I AASC, mainly working in Oldham & Thameside area.
Full time – 40 hours per week
Salary
- £24,000
- £29,000.00 depending on experience plus Serco Benefits.
Main Purpose:
Reporting to the Field operations manager, the primary function of this role is to provide building maintenance services to a designated area / or number of properties. Where there is a specialist trade, the role also supports non-trade Maintenance Operatives (MO’s) to fix faults. The role requires close working relationships with the housing teams to ensure outstanding service to the users.

Main Accountabilities:

Maintenance of Property

- To provide building maintenance services to a designated area / or number of properties
- To report faults using the IT system to ensure all faults are reported and closed for their property portfolio
- The role of the MO is to ensure that all properties under their control are free from building defects as defined under the Home Office Contract
- Liaison with external sub-contractors to ensure access can be obtained, works are completed to agreed standards and the sub-contractors operatives are approved.
- To undertake audit samples of external suppliers work and report findings.
- To undertake once a year a Portable Appliance Test (PAT) for any properties in their area for all properties

Trade Duties (Where Applicable)

- To provide specialist trade services in accordance with certified standards and experience
- To support non trade MO’s to fault fix under your defined specific trade
- To provide technical advice and support to the maintenance section relevant to your trade in order to ensure all current standards are met under the contract
- To provide the property on-boarding team with trade sign offs for the relevant specialist trade

Health & Safety

- To ensure that the safety of all users of the property from a building standards is achieved
- To check all relevant property reports before undertaking works in the properties (e.g. asbestos, dangerous persons,) or request additional reports if deemed appropriate by the MO (e.g. structural report, asbestos survey / test etc.)

Furniture & Inventory

- Where possible to repair all Serco supplied furniture or ensure furniture is replaced to comply with the Home Office Contract

Materials Management

- To only purchase materials from approved Serco suppliers and keep receipts for all transactions to identify and record what materials are used for each job / property
- Where specified only purchase the agreed Serco standard material’s unless alternative substitutions can be provide due to stock requirements

Plant & Tool Hire / Purchase

- To obtain Managers approval for the Hire or purchase of any plant or tools over £100 to undertake any maintenance repair
- To ensure appropriate receipts are obtained and recoded for each property / job completed

Waste Disposal

- To remove all waste from properties when in attendance and ensure the waste is disposed of in approved license areas and re-cycled where possible

Garden Maintenance

- To undertake garden maintenance duties for properties defined under their property remit

Trade Work

- Where work is outside the MO skill set for fault repair a report should be raised on AORA to instruct the appropriate trade fix to be initiated in accordance with the Home Office Contract terms

Cleaning & Carpet Cleaning

- To identify areas where a cleaning requirement is required and to raise the jobs/ fault on AORA


Work Scheduling & Prioritisation

- All allocated KPI work must be completed in advance of the scheduled completion date
- If no further KPI work is required for the same day then the MO will continue on site to ensure any other maintenance defects are completed to ensure the property meets the contract standard’s
- Once all defects have been completed then any scheduled planned maintenance work can be completed if not already undertaken (e.g. HHSRS annual report, PAT annual test etc.)
- To liaise with Housing Officer partners to ensure that any properties in the MO’s portfolio have been inspected at least once per calendar month with a documented report

Stakeholder Liaison

- Where requested, be the site liaison for all stakeholder parties with an interest in the property e.g. Landlords, Local Authorities, Home Office, in order to provide maintenance support

Working Hours

- Various work patterns will be set for MO’s depending on operational delivery needs


On –Call Requirements & Out of Hours Working
The will be a requirement to be on call and undertake out of hours working to agreed rosters and in accordance with the out of hours local operating procedure to provide a 24 hour and 7 day a week maintenance service





What we offer


- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Simply Health Plans, and more.
- Access to a huge range of discounts and exclusive deals such as Merlin Attractions, Mobile Phone discounts, Cinema discounts, Leisure, and Hospitality discounts.
- A fantastic culture and supportive team where you’ll get the chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
- Company discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
- Interesting and enjoyable work.
- Committed to professional and personal development with a wide range of training and coaching opportunities to expand your capabilities.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Salary: £24,265.00
Location: Wigan
Contract: Permamnent
Working hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week


Here at Serco, we work with Asylum Accommodation and Support Services to assist individuals through the asylum system, which includes providing them with temporary accommodation.

As the Maintenance Assistant your role is key in ensuring all requested repairs, be that reactive or proactive and pre planned (via manager), are carried out to the required standard and within our SLA deadlines.

The ideal candidate will have a trade(s) behind them, this is advantageous but not essential as on the job training will be provided where required. Candidates need to be highly motivated individuals who can manage their own workflow as well as working within the team when necessary.

As a Maintenance Assistant you will be responsible for the Health & Safety of yourself and that of all users of the property during, and after works have been undertaken and completed.

As part of your role, you will be required to purchase and manage materials using a company account card from approved Serco suppliers only. Vehicles provided by the company will be inspected regularly by employees and kept in a professional and clean condition


Flexible Working pattern


- Mon to Fri 8 hours per day between 08:00 and 18:00 to meet the operational needs of the business.


On –Call Requirements & Out of Hours Working

- There will be a requirement to undertake out of hours on call duties, working on a rota basis to ensure 24/7 emergency cover is provided as per our contractual responsibilities.


What we offer

- Competitive salary (rising upon evidence of trade skills)
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Vehicle, Fuel Card and tools are all provided.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Career opportunities across their entire AASC contract
- Employee discounts for major retailers and leisure activities


Why Serco?

Serco offers all employees the opportunity and support to drive their own ambitions and develop the skills required to achieve their career goals.
We provide a safe and professional environment where all employees are valued members of the team whilst also respecting your work/life balance.
This ultimately contributes to the delivery of vital public services in the UK.


What you need to do the job

You will need a willingness and ability to travel within the region and occasionally within the UK (a valid UK driver’s licence is essential). CRB Clearance and Security Clearance at CTC level (Counter Terrorism Check) is required (Serco Civil Government is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all offers of employment are subject to security clearance checks and approval by the Home Office).

All Applicants should ensure they have read and meet the criteria set out in the attached job description.



About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
Apply
Please click on the apply button to be taken to our careers website
Serco is a Disability Confident Employer committed to employing and retaining people with disabilities. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates. We’re a proud holder of the Silver Inclusive Employer Standard and we actively encourage applications from females, those with disabilities or from an ethnic minority background.

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About SercoAt Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.