Facilities Assistant

2 months ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom University of Cambridge Full time

**The Role**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the University of Cambridge as a Facilities Assistant.

The role holder, alongside existing colleagues, will provide facilities services to buildings and tenants as part of the Facilities Management team. The work supports the academic community and contribute to the smooth running of the buildings and sites.

The role holder frequently works non-standard and unsocial hours; sometimes working without direct supervision across multiple buildings and sites.

The role holder provides the following diverse and responsible services:

- Morning or evening Site inspection for pre-operation cleaning standards. Ad hoc spot cleaning where required during the day.
- Setting and resetting of seminar rooms and lecture theatres to agreed pattern or style.
- Transport, logging and distribution of delivered items and post.
- Provision of site security including unlock and locking up, first point of call daytime security incidents.
- Co-ordinating access for removal company and co-ordinating logistics for office moves including assisting where required.
- General maintenance, including agreed tasks of hanging noticeboards, making good walls, painting, litter picking, assisting with waste disposal.
- The role will also include vacant property checks from fit for use and security perspective.
- Monitoring and policing site car parking including contact with tenant contact.
- Operating various IT Systems both generic and bespoke to Facilities.
- First response AV support for inoperable equipment in meeting rooms and Lecture Theatres.

The role holder interacts with all staff and visitors and provides a friendly, helpful service to a wide range of people both internal and external to the University.

The role holder may be required to do similar duties on other sites managed by the Facilities Management Section.

**About you**:
In order to succeed in this role, you will join us with:

- Basic D.I.Y skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to interact with staff and visitors at all levels
- Good time management and organisational skills

**Benefits of working at the University of Cambridge include**:

- Competitive rates of pay with automatic service related pay progression and annual cost of living increases;
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities;
- Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries)
- An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution;
- Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores;
- Schemes to support with relocation

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.


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