Facilities Assistant

1 day ago

Bridgwater, United Kingdom Somerset County Council Full time

**A bit about us**
We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and motivated Facilities Assistant who is resilient, has excellent technical, administrative and customer service skills and is a natural problem solver.
**Here's what you can expect to be doing**
The Facilities Management Team provides premises management, health and safety statutory checks, assists with incident control, financial and procurement administration. We act as first point of contact for building users. We are a busy team and each day brings interesting challenges and tasks.

You will join a small team of staff providing weekly health and safety tours as well as admin support across our Facilities Management sites.

Your duties would include:

- Carrying out a range of technical premises management related duties
- Meet daily priorities and provide exemplary customer service to our corporate tenants based at a variety of properties across Mendip and South Somerset
- Ensure that office equipment, building maintenance and health and safety requirements are met
- Liaise with partner agencies and services providing advice and guidance
**A few things about you**
You will have experience in a similar post, and be willing to work across sites in the Taunton, Bridgwater, Yeovil and Shepton Mallet areas when required. Understanding of IT and recent experience of using MS Word, Excel and Outlook are necessary. With the ability to manage your time to meet deadlines; you will be able to work under your own initiative, but also as part of a busy team. In return we will offer a full induction programme, ongoing training and regular supervision.

Experience in a health and safety environment or premises management role is preferred but not essential as training will be given.
**Additional information**
If this role is customer facing you will need to speak fluent English.

The salary for this role is £18,562 - £18,933.

If you are interested in finding out more before applying, please get in touch with Fran Pearn on 07976 691989 (Weds to Fri), Lianne Guy on 07469 413358 and Rachael Selway on 07977 401871 (Mon - Weds).
**Why choose Somerset County Council**
We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

- We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
- Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
- Staff discounts in gyms.
- Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
- Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
- My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

Job Reference: SCC02817

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