Maintenance Operative

ABOUT CATS CAMBRIDGE AND CSVPA

CATS Cambridge and CSVPA offers an outstanding international pre-university educational experience to students aged 14+ from all over the world. CATS/CSVPA students live and work in our beautiful buildings studying for GCSEs, A levels and University Foundation Programmes, and preparing for admission to universities across the country and elsewhere. We pride ourselves on our approach to teaching and learning, with small class sizes and an informal atmosphere ensuring that students are treated as individuals and build great relationships with staff.

JOB TITLE
Maintenance Operative

OVERVIEW OF THE JOB
To undertake maintenance work as directed. To ensure maintenance work, cleaning, gardening and caretaking tasks are completed to a high standard.

REPORTS TO
You will be directly responsible to the Maintenance Supervisors and your line manager will be the Operations Manager.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE JOB
Main Duties
Maintenance
Driving and deliveries
Cleaning
Gardening
Caretaking
Painting/decorating

Cross College Duties
To be mindful of the need to ensure all College students receive a high level of care and discipline at all times (consistent with the Staff Handbook)
To promote the good name of the College through conduct towards students, parents, agents and other parties, and attendance at College events (consistent with the Staff and Personal Tutor Handbooks)
To adhere at all times to College standards (consistent with the Staff Handbook) - To provide general support and cover across the organisation as required
To be mindful at all times of health and safety requirements (consistent with the Staff Handbook) Duties Pertinent to this Post (not exhaustive list) Daily (in accordance with the Offices and Classrooms/Residential Accommodation Schedule)
- Duties will include:
- Undertake maintenance issues as directed by Sysaid and the Senior Maintenance Supervisors
- Delivery/collection of food and clean crockery and cutlery to the offsite canteen
- Clean all outside areas
- Deliver photocopy paper as directed
- Ensure all deliveries received are dealt with Security of buildings
- Unlocking/locking up
- Pull off and enter job resolutions on Sysaid
- Other related duties as directed by the management from time to time
- Security of buildings
- Unlocking/locking up/alarms Weekly (in accordance with the Offices and Classrooms/Residential Accommodation Schedule) Duties will include:

- Undertake weekly campus check
- Clean company vehicles inside and out
- Weekly maintenance checks of vehicles
- Other related duties as directed by the management from time to time
- Fire Alarm testing
- Lock up duty
- Call out duty
- Other- Deep Cleaning of the outside areas as and when required
- General Gardening duties as and when required
- You will also be required to undertake additional duties during our busy Summer School period. These additional duties will be notified to you prior to the commencement of the Summer School. - The post holder will have the ultimate responsibility for all the above functions. He or she will need to possess- A caring attitude and a good sense of customer service. An ability to work using one’s own initiative as well as being a good team player is a pre-requisite. Experience gained within a residential environment would be of use.
- Manual handling
- moving heavy goods and furniture

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Previous experience within a maintenance role
Demonstrates good critical thinking skills to understand client issues
Can think and act rationally and maturely without undue bias or reliance on emotional responses
Can weigh up information, issues and evidence and draw balanced conclusions from such
Has positive impact with colleagues and clients
Speaks clearly and persuasively when interacting with internal and external personnel
Can prioritise conflicting demands

ABOUT CATS COLLEGES CATS
Colleges is a leading provider of pre-university academic courses and English language courses in the UK. We provide programmes including A Level, IB and University Foundation, as well as English Language Study, to a growing number of international students seeking to win places at UK universities. We operate a number of different educational brands: CATS Colleges in Cambridge, Canterbury and London; CATS Academy in Boston; Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts (CSVPA) and Stafford House English language schools and study holidays. We benefit from being part of a global team focused on teaching and learning.

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