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Maintenance Operative
Job role
Ganymede are seeking an experienced, but above all passionate, people to uphold aspirations. In a customer-facing environment you will be responsible for keeping and maintaining the student residence (communal space and studios) to the highest standards. You will also be responsible for the compliance of the residence to all health and safety and other legislative requirements. This is a very hands-on role where we are seeking an individual with technical knowledge and practical experience to ensure that we complete as much maintenance work as possible internally, providing a friendly, quick and efficient service to our residents.
Role responsibilities
- DIY (Plumbing, Painting, Decorating, Joinery) for all communal spaces and studios as required.
- Grounds upkeep where applicable
- Ongoing and prompt management of building facilities, either by carrying out the works yourself or by the procurement of external contractors (as advised by the service desk where applicable)
- Maintaining the residence to brand standards, involving painting, floor laying, joinery works and replacements
- Ensuring compliance when responding to identified maintenance faults
- Ensure compliance of the building with the all health and safety requirements
- Manage and record the routine testing, maintenance and risk assessment of all aspects of the residence
- Management and close out of all tickets raised on salesforce
- Managing all supplies and works within budget
- Provide excellent customer service as a member of the residence management team.
- Support site team with routine compliance checks BOH folders.
- Maintain BOH maintenance stores.
- Support with refuge removal and external refuge companies.
- Complete showers descale quarterly
- Be required to support RM in emergency call outs when incidents / major outages occur
Package
- £28K Basic Salary
- 20 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Role requirements
The ideal candidate will:
- Have knowledge and experience of DIY.
- Be service orientated, independent and confident, and have experience in a facilities maintenance role.
- Have experience with health and safety requirements.
- Be adept at procuring and managing services and goods from external suppliers and contractors where required
- Have experience maintaining a budget
- Have excellent communication skills and with a helpful, can-do attitude
- Be proactive
If you are interested in joining a growing business at an exciting time, you can apply directly below or send your CV to or call me on for a full job description.
Ganymede is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
