Maintenance Team Leader

**What will you be doing?**:
As Maintenance Coordinator you’ll be leading and supporting a team of Maintenance Assistants who provide multi-disciplined reactive maintenance services to funeral homes, food stores and manufacturing sites located in the West & East Midlands and surrounding areas, as well as at the Support Centre based in the heart of Lichfield.

Providing leadership, coaching and change management support, you will help to ensure the delivery of an industry leading reactive maintenance service.

In this varied role, you’ll also be coordinating/collaborating with specialist contractors when managing emergency works relating to site closures and trading impact. You’ll be helping to make sure that these works are carried out with mínimal operational disruption.

As well as providing the first line of support to the team, you’ll be providing on the job and systems training and be responsible for QHSE and safe systems of working.

Reactive maintenance jobs may include fabric work, F&F, plumbing, decorating, carpentry, and landscaping. You’ll ensure that these jobs are carried out within agreed times.

You’ll be managing tools, materials, PPE, and Trade Accounts as well as managing the work orders in our maintenance portal.

Acting as a co-operative and supportive team member within the Facilities team, you’ll help to promote an open and effective working relationship with all colleagues, stakeholders and 3rd parties.

**How will I know if I am right for this role?**:
This role would suit someone who can bring previous experience from a similar role as well as a relevant trade qualification.

You’ll have a strong knowledge of Health & Safety in the workplace, as well as multi-site experience
- retail preferrable.

You’ll be comfortable and familiar in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders as well as confident in communicating with both internal and external colleagues.

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**What is in it for me?**

And in return

In addition to our competitive salaries, our colleagues also benefit from:

- **Fantastic colleague discount**:

- including a discount of up to 20% on our products.
- **Retail discounts**:

- our new hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, save money on days out and take advantage of holiday discounts.
- **Holiday buy**:

- colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year to enjoy the things that matter to them outside of work.
- **Colleague recognition-** we make sure we celebrate our colleague’s achievements both personally and professionally
- **Enhanced family friendly policies**:

- we want to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.
- **Share of the profits**:

- We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.
- **Paid time for volunteering**-we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.
- **Give as you earn-** as a caring Society, we want to help you support charities which mean something to you.
- **Healthcare Cashplan**:

- your wellbeing is important, so you are able contribute to a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.
- **Company Pension**:

- Colleagues can access a company pension scheme with us and receive an employer contribution when they too contribute. We also offer Pension wellbeing information to help you plan for retirement.
- **Life Assurance**:

- You’ll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you’re working for us.
- **Personalised learning and development**:

- with easy access to a wide range of training programmes

**We are the difference makers and understand flexibility makes a difference
- **we understand a ‘one size fits all’ approach doesn’t work for colleagues when it comes to flexibility and balancing work with home life.

We have introduced new ways of working to support our colleagues wellbeing and embrace ways of working that work for everyone.

Our hybrid working policy included daily quiet time that is free of meetings, with an ‘unplugged’ Friday morning and shorter meeting durations for wellbeing breaks in between calls.

We are also trialling “Workflex” across our Support Centre, Funeral and Retail locations which offers colleagues the opportunity to work a compressed 4-day working week, 9-day fortnight or a mix of both. More reasons to join us at Central Co-op.

**Who are we?**:
We’re Central Co-op, a Member-owned and Member-led co-operative Society.

And with us, you’re not just a colleague, you’re a Member. You’ll own a share of the business.

You’ll be able to make a positive impact in your community, joining us in our mission to create a sustainable Society, and working alongside a team of passionate people who’ll help you grow.