Facilities Assistant

2 weeks ago


Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom Somerset County Council Full time

**Why should I choose Somerset Council?**
Well, for a start, we’re a hugely ambitious council, committed to improving lives for the residents, communities, and businesses of Somerset.
And that’s why we’re working so hard to build a sustainable organisation with a culture that rewards, values and recognises our staff, and gives everyone here the opportunity to grow and develop, personally and professionally.
If you’re looking for a place where you work truly matters - where YOU truly matter - we might be just right for you.
We also promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

**What will I be doing?**
The Facilities Management Team provides premise management, health, and safety statutory checks, assist with incident control, financial and procurement administration. We act as first point of contact for building users.
Your role will include weekly health & safety and statutory checks, assisting with buildings user requirements and the provision of general technical/ administration support.
These premises management tasks include weekly Health and Safety tours, fire extinguisher checks, and alarm testing, legionella testing, emergency lighting testing and panic alarm testing, inductions, monitoring building conditions, fault reporting and auditing risk and CoSHH assessments.
You will be required to lone work to carry out these duties at the FM managed premises in the Mendip region. This involves the travel to these premises on a regular basis and therefore you will need access to your own transport.

**What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?**
We offer ongoing support, training, and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

- Experience in a similar role.
- Experience/knowledge of health and safety related tasks.
- Take pride in your work, have great work ethic, and want to play your part in creating a welcoming and safe environment.
- Have experience of using Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Have excellent Customer service skills and are a natural problem solver.
- Are organised, flexible and adaptable.

**What will I be offered in return?**We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

- We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
- Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Staff discounts in gyms.
- Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
- Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
- My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

**Anything else I should know?**
From 1 April 2023 the County and District councils in Somerset were replaced by a new single unitary authority - Somerset Council.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we work together with the four district councils to deliver the new council for Somerset.

Experience in a health and safety environment or premises management role is preferred but not essential as training is provided.

We are seeking people with transferable skills and backgrounds to join our team.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Colin Stocker on 07973685799.

The salary for this role is £21,968 per annum (This includes a recruitment allowance of £1,156 per year, until 31/10/2024)

Please see our privacy statement here:
Job Reference: SCC04221

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £21,968.00 per year

Work Location: In person


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