Maintenance Assistant

Role Introduction
Our Maintenance Assistants have an important role to play in ensuring that our boarding houses are functional, welcoming and comfortable spaces for the pupils. The work that you do in this role directly contributes to the boys’ experience of living in Eton, away from home. In this role, you are responsible for carrying out planned and reactive routine maintenance for approximately 5 boarding houses, keeping records of works undertaken, logging and reporting faults, making assessments of work that needs to be carried out in the future, undertaking periodic health and safety checks and risk assessments, and providing general support to the houses, for example moving furniture and helping with the preparation for the start and end of the Halves. From time to time you may be required to assist the Buildings Department in carrying out work across the College in other buildings.
- This role does not attract Skilled Worker visa sponsorship._

Main Duties
- Undertake maintenance and routine repairs within the boarding houses (including in boys’ rooms, common areas, kitchens, and the private side accommodation), for example:

- Replacing door and window furniture
- Easing windows
- Adjusting doors, springs, locks and handles
- Fitting door stops
- Re-hanging curtains, curtain poles and tracks
- Tightening tables and repairing furniture
- Bleeding radiators
- Replacing tap washers
- Cleaning light fittings and replacing bulbs and diffusers as necessary
- General painting and decorative repairs
- Mattress changes
- Handling and moving laundry bags
- Cleaning and sweeping of outside areas, i.e., paths and driveways
- Putting out bins as required
- Maintenance of the bike sheds
- Tidying and maintenance of gardens, watering pots and tubs as required
- Regularly walk through the boarding house noting any preventive maintenance required and logging the details with the Facilities and Maintenance Manager
- Assisting with the heating and lighting of the premises, including frost protection.
- Reporting any system failures with heating, electric, lighting, water or sewerage to the Facilities and Maintenance Manager.
- Making minor repairs to the heating, electric, lighting, water or sewerage systems, where appropriate and after consultation with the Deputy Maintenance Manager.
- Testing fire alarms and emergency lighting systems and ensuring all comply with Health and Safety guidelines, reporting any concerns to the Facilities and Maintenance Manager.
- Check and maintain a register of all fire equipment e.g., extinguishers, smoke detectors and heat detectors reporting any concerns to the Facilities and Maintenance Manager.
- Commitment and promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion;
- All positions at Eton are classed as ‘regulated activity’ as per the Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021 guidance, therefore a good understanding of safeguarding procedures is essential;
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, including by not limited to, completing safeguarding training as required, and ensuring any safeguarding updates issued by the College are read and understood;
- Understand and comply with procedures and legislation relating to confidentiality.

**Working Pattern**
- Maintenance Assistants are normally aligned to approximately 5 houses Boarding Houses each however, you may be asked to undertake your role in a different house, or in different areas of the College on either a temporary or permanent basis according to the needs of the College.
- You will be required to support the set up and close down of boarding houses which normally takes 3 three days before the start and after the end of each Half (school term); depending on the dates on which the Halves start and end, some days will fall over a weekend, or on a Bank Holiday. The College will aim to give you as much advance notice as possible of theses dates.
- During term time, this will be working 42 hours over 6 days and will include weekend working. In non-term time, weekly working hours can be condensed to a 5 day working week, Monday to Friday, the exact working pattern for non-term time will be agreed with your line manager.
- Previous maintenance experience is essential
- Demonstrable competence in carrying out general repairs and maintenance tasks
- Able to climb ladders and undertake the physical demands of the role in line with relevant health and safety guidelines
- Prior knowledge of, or the ability to learn about, relevant Health and Safety legislation;
- A full clean UK driving licence;
- A flexible and positive approach to work and a ‘can do’ attitude;
- Attention to detail and taking responsibility for your work;
- Work as part of a team and support your colleagues;
- Ability to work unsupervised and use your own initiative;
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Punctual, polite and well presented.

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