Facilities Assistant

3 weeks ago


Slough, United Kingdom National Foundation for Educational Research Full time

**Salary**: £11.50 per hour

**Location**: Slough, UK

**Job Type**: Full time, Temporary position, 3 - 6 months

As a Facilities Assistant you’ll join our Facilities team providing a wide range of support to ensure the effective provision of a facilities and maintenance service.

**REQUIREMENTS**:
Ideally, you'll have strong practical DIY skills for carrying out minor repairs to buildings and equipment; and ability to use and maintain a variety of tools. You will have manual handling ability and general office-based IT skills of MS Word, Outlook and Excel. Additionally, you will understand the importance of carrying out minor tasks which are vital to the smooth operation of the organisation.

**Main duties will include**:

- Providing professional first line support for all job ticket requests including breakdowns, responding, and resolving where possible, or escalating to the Estate Supervisor as appropriate. This includes providing support to office moves and internal and external improvement projects.
- Catering - cleaning, monitoring, and restocking the vending machines, including shopping locally to purchase supplies of fresh items
- Conference facilities - maintain meeting room facilities and consumables, re-setting room layouts, supporting catering provision.
- Portering - receiving and recording delivers and moving all parcels, paperwork, materials, and equipment around the building. This includes sorting and distributing incoming and internal post, processing outgoing mail including operation of the franking machine.
- To carry out planned preventative maintenance checks and inspection of estate fixtures, facilities, and equipment, both internal and external, reporting faults and exceptions and keeping accurate records. This includes using the electronic job ticket system to record faults or works, and to update progress.
- Assisting with all aspects of the upkeep of the grounds, roadways and car parks as required.
- Using and maintaining hand tools, ladders, light machinery, and plant, which may include ride-on / cyinder / rotary mowers, and other powered equipment.
- To advise on supplies required for vending, catering, and other services as required.
- Provide relief security and reception.
- Acting as a site key holder with occasional out-of-hours working; this includes providing holiday cover for the Security Guard outside of core office hours.
- Unlocking and locking buildings, setting alarms, and undertaking routine security patrols.
- To provide initial response to any reported faults and undertake minor repairs, and to escalate breakdowns appropriately.

If you meet 70% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

WHY NFER?
We place equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.

**We offer our next Facilities Assistant**:

- Competitive salary of £11.50 per hour
- Open to the role being worked part-time

**Other roles you may have experience of include**: Maintenance Assistant, Caretaker or Groundskeeper.



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