Maintenance Assistant
| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Leeds |
| Area | Yorkshire, England |
| Sector | Facilities Management - Technical & Engineers |
| Salary | £25,554.66 - 27,288.58 per year |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Sarah Ramsey-Armitage |
| Job Ref | 5517 |
- Description
Role:
Maintenance Assistant
Salary:
£25,554.66 - £27,288.58 per annum
Contract:
Permanent, 32.5 hours per week (year-round), Monday to Friday
Locations:
LS10 (24.5 hours/week) AND
LS25 (8 hours/week)
We are currently looking for a Maintenance Assistant to work across two Schools in Hunslet and Micklefield.
The role involves opening/closing the school and managing all the maintenance across the sites, including plumbing, joinery and electrical work. The role would suit someone from a handyperson background. The main aim of this role is to manage all facilities and safety aspects of the schools to provide a positive working environment for the students and staff.
Duties of the role include:
- Ensuring security integrity of the school buildings and grounds through locking and unlocking, patrols, monitoring third party contractors.
- Carrying out the repairs or reporting the damage to the helpdesk
- Carry out either physical or visual checks of water systems, Fire Alarms, Fire Doors, Fire Extinguishers, Plant Rooms.
- Respond to emergency situations such as floods, bodily fluids and effecting temporary or permanent rectification in accordance with prescribed procedures and timescales
- Respond to requests for collection of parcels, movement of furniture rearrangement of rooms etc in accordance with prescribed procedures and timescales
- Be observant for H&S issues and ensure that they are rectified or made safe and reported to management
- Being proactive by noticing deficiencies in the facilities and either rectifying if within capabilities or bringing the defect to the attention of management
- Responsible for the grounds of the building too so the role will involve some gardening/grass cutting and litter picking as needed.
As the schools is part of a wider portfolio, this is a great stepping stone role with career opportunities if desired.
There's also a fantastic pension, holidays and other good benefits with this role.
The ideal candidate:
The ideal candidate will have experience within the maintenance sector and ideally be qualified in a technical discipline such as Plumbing, Joinery or Electrical or have a good command of hands-on technical experience.
You must be able to pass an Enhanced DBS check in an education environment.
- Strong handyperson skills - plumbing, electrical and joinery (qualifications desirable but not essential)
- Amenable and approachable personality
- Flexible and adaptable in approach
- Able to travel between the two schools
- Enhanced DBS check
To apply, please send your CV to sarah@300nr.co.uk
