General Maintenance Operative

4 weeks ago


Reading, Reading, United Kingdom University of Reading Full time

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and flexible General Maintenance Operative to join the Campus Operations team, within Estates, offering a reactive maintenance service, largely at the Greenlands Campus in Henley; maintaining a variety of aspects related to the building services and fabric in University owned properties.

You will need the confidence and ability to carry out reactive and planned maintenance on the university's building stock, investigating, fault finding and seeking solutions to building services and fabric faults and failures.

The post holder will provide an effective and prompt customer focussed, professional and efficient service to the University in accordance with its requirements, aims, objectives and Service Level Agreements using prior knowledge and experience.

You will be expected to manage and prioritise your own workload; updating the CAFM system and customers as required and carry out all work in a safe manner in accordance with university policies and procedures, safe systems of work, and current legislation.

Our team operate a 36 hour working week and the successful candidates will have the opportunity to join our on-call rota offering a 24/7 service to the University. The call out duty attracts a generous stand by allowance and overtime payments for all call outs.

Please apply via the Jobtrain site, and clearly demonstrate how you meet the key recruiting criteria.

  • Recognised time served apprenticeship, and NVQ trade qualifications or equivalent, ideally in plumbing or heating discipline.
  • Experienced and competent in all aspects of planned, preventative and day to day reactive maintenance issues related to building services and fabric.
  • Awareness of current statutory requirements, including a broad knowledge H&S and the risk assessment process.
  • Provide close liaison, communication and interaction with other trades, managers, contractors & Customers
  • Flexible, well organised, able to project a professional image and demonstrate proactive attitude in work related issues.
  • Participate in the Maintenance Team Call-out rota.

The University of Reading aims to create a fair and transparent reward strategy; ensuring staff are paid a competitive salary and are recognised and rewarded for their contribution.

Members of staff have the opportunity to join a pension scheme sponsored by the University. The University has a range of family friendly policies, including a childcare voucher scheme to help you save money on childcare costs.

We have a strong commitment to health and well-being and staff can benefit from discounted membership at the SportsPark, an Employee Assistance Programme and a Health Cash Plan. The University offers generous holiday entitlements which include public holidays and paid closure days.

For more information, please contact:

Contact Name: Karen Brading

Contact Job Title: Head of Reactive Maintenance

Contact Email Address:

Alternative Contact Name: Guneet Bhatti

Alternative contact Title: Deputy Head of Reactive Maintenance

Alternative contact Email Address:

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-UK candidates who do not already have permission to work in the UK should note that by reference to the applicable SOC code for this role, sponsorship will not be possible under the Skilled Worker Route. There is further information about this on the UK Visas and Immigration Website.

£25,138 to £28,759 per annum, plus call out £3,500 per annum and call out overtime.



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