Facilities Team Member

Our client are a market-leading business from within the student accommodation sector are looking for an experienced Building Technicianto join their facilities team in Birmingham.

Working as part of a team, the successful applicant will be accountable for providing a well maintained, safe, secure, clean, compliant and effecient environment, delivering high quality planned and reactive maintenace.

Role responsibilities:

• Undertaking general maintenance work within properties incl; window and door repairs, fire alarm activations & false alarms, reactive maintenance support, fault finding and rectifying, PPM planned inspections,  support with PPM activities, rectifying or reporting any remedial work and any Health & Safety related calls).
• Responsible for getting to know and actively listening to the students, directing them to available support whenever it is needed.
• Accountable for responsiveness and taking appropriate action on receipt of student feedback and any othermaintenance requests from across the business.
• Accountable for maintaining a safe environment for everyone, the completion and recording of basic monitoringand compliance where trained to do so.
• Accountable for keeping a clean, tidy and well maintained environment.
• Logging of maintenance issues and follow up accordingly.

• Oversee specialist contractors/trades people onsite
• Responding to call outs when acting as on call operative based on the rota
• DBS check required
• Driving License required - travelling between sites to deliver maintenance and upkeep across a group of sites. 

You will benefit by having technical capabilities:

• Basic joinery skills
• Basic plastering - repairing holes in walls etc..
• Basic domestic plumbing skills
• Complete like for like electrical changes including safety isolation
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation

Benefits

• 37.5hours per week
• Salary up to £24,750 + bonus schemes
• Regular shifts working between 08:00 and 20:00 (Some weekend work will be required and the successful applicant will be on the on call rota but will be given an on call standby allowance)
• 25 holidays + plus bank holidays  
• Pension scheme - Basic + 1% employee contribution
• Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
• Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more!

If interested in this role please apply or get in touch with Paige for a chat on or