Facilities Assistant

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Preston; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site role

Permanent contract

Full-time hours

Job summary

ISS Facilities Services in Preston is seeking a Facilities Assistant to work with the Assistant Facilities Manager across all facets of facilities management. The role focuses on delivering high-quality day-to-day services to customers and supporting the FM team.

The successful candidate will perform front-of-house duties, ensure security practices, coordinate porterage and meeting room use, and assist with inductions and maintenance scheduling. A proactive, communicative approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience working with customers and soft services.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of management.
• Ideally experience completing compliance checks and reports, although training can be provided.

Responsibilities

• Provide front of house support, welcoming visitors and assisting them appropriately.
• Ensure security procedures are followed at all times.
• Deliver support services including porterage, meeting room management and management of the FM mailbox.
• Conduct inductions for new starters, including health and safety and environmental inductions.
• Log, facilitate and oversee reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) visits.
• Support compliance with environmental, HSEQ and security standards, including audits.
• Assist with traffic management plans, fire risk assessments and water hygiene arrangements where appropriate.
• Provide administrative support to the Facilities Management team and support the delivery of low to medium risk projects.

Skills

Experience working with customers

Soft services

Communication with management levels

Compliance checks training optional

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are seeking a Facilities Assistant to work with the Assistant Facilities Manager across all aspects of the Facilities Management service provision.

This role sits within a team that delivers specific outcomes for customers and stakeholders, while also taking responsibility for the delivery of services and projects.

Job Description

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a high-quality day-to-day service to customers.

Service quality will be a key deliverable for the Facilities Management team and will be made transparent to customers and stakeholders through the effective delivery of facilities support activities.

Key Responsibilities

Provide front of house support, welcoming visitors and assisting them appropriately.

Ensure security procedures are followed at all times.

Deliver support services including porterage, meeting room management and management of the FM mailbox.

Conduct inductions for new starters, including health and safety and environmental inductions.

Log, facilitate and oversee reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) visits.

Support compliance with environmental, HSEQ and security standards, including audits.

Assist with traffic management plans, fire risk assessments and water hygiene arrangements where appropriate.

Provide administrative support to the Facilities Management team and support the delivery of low to medium risk projects.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

Experience working with customers and soft services.

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of management.

Ideally, experience of completing compliance checks and reports, although training can be provided.

Positive attitude with a proactive, can-do mindset.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger,

#facilitiesmanagement

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [e-mail]

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

Company: ISS Facilities Services

Salary: Not specified

Hours: Full-time

Location: Preston, PR5 8BX

Working pattern: On-site

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 6 Aug 2026

Closing date: 5 Sept 2026