Facilities Assistant

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Birmingham Full time

**Position Details**

Infrastructure and Facilities, College of Medical and Dental Sciences

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

BAND 300

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £20,498 to £20,910, with potential progression once in post to £23,842

Band 300

Full Time, Permanent - there are 3 posts available

Closing date: 12th July 2023

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

**Background**

The work schedule for this post would be 36 hours per week - Monday to Friday

The post is a full-time role which forms part of the Facilities Core Support team providing general support to the College. The facilities team provides a flexible support service to the College of Medical and Dental Sciences (MDS) across multiple buildings on Campus; including parcel delivery, stores counter service, gas cylinder service, postal and autoclaving facilities. The core services team is integral to the support structures within the College which facilitate the delivery of high-quality research and teaching activities.

**Role Summary**

You will provide a mixture of operational, and administrative services, to help ensure the accommodation remains suitable for core activities (e.g. teaching, research, administrative support services, health and safety, environmental awareness and events management). In order to flexibly use resource, you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.

**Main Duties**
- Provide general Portering across the College; to include undertaking room/office moves, event set ups and furniture deliveries. Moving goods from the College’s stores to point of use.
- Assist the Practical Teaching Teams in the movement and set up of equipment to enable the delivery of the educational programmes.
- Provide general housekeeping services supplementing those provided by cleaning services as needed, e.g. topping up sanitisers, paper towels etc.
- Provide sterile waste services; collect and process clinical waste, keep records of clinical waste on a daily basis in accordance with the University’s and HSE regulations, provide clean glassware and sterile plastics. Direct interaction and liaison with service engineers is also expected.
- The safe handling, transport and replacement of gas cylinders as requested by Research and Teaching labs; monitoring of cylinder stock levels, re-ordering and reporting of cylinder related issues.
- Assist within all the College stores as part of the wider team; admitting visitors/engineers and delivery drivers to the loading bay areas, ensuring the facilities are kept in a secure and safe condition; checking off deliveries against paperwork and re-stocking shelves within the two stores facilities, serving customers and monitoring stock levels/replenishing shelves. Monitoring laboratory lab coat levels and arranging laundry service. Delivery and replenishment


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