Maintenance Assistant

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 (url removed)