Facilities Maintenance Assistant - Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden (WBSL)

Warner Bros. Entertainment; Leavesden; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A world-class film and TV studio in Leavesden is seeking a Facilities Technician to maintain a safe environment. Duties include maintenance tasks and ensuring equipment compliance. Candidates should have a strong understanding of COSHH and effective communication skills. This role offers a hands-on work environment with diverse challenges.

Benefits

On-site gym

Café

Wellbeing room

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license is required.
• Experience in construction-related tasks is advantageous.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance tasks.
• Monitor health and safety compliance.
• Audit and review stock levels.

Skills

Strong understanding of COSHH

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Positive attitude towards Health & Safety

Dynamic risk assessment

Education

City & Guilds Construction Qualifications

Building Construction Qualifications

CSCS Card

IPAF/Forklift certification

Job description

Overview

Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden is looking for a Facilities Technician to join our team here and help maintain our world-class studio environment to the highest standards. Working closely with the Lead Facilities Technician and Facilities Administrators, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our premises are safe and well-maintained. You’ll carry out a wide range of tasks, from reactive maintenance and skilled jobs like painting and decorating, to supporting emergency responses such as burst pipes or diesel spills. During the winter months, you’ll also help with gritting paths to keep the site safe. You’ll also bring multi-skilled experience across areas such as carpentry, painting and decorating, confident use of hand tools, and general maintenance. While primarily based at our Leavesden site, occasional off-site work may be required.

If you’re practical, adaptable, and thrive in an environment where no two days are the same, we’d love to hear from you!

Your Role Accountabilities

• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance tasks, ensuring the highest standard of work is delivered.
• Monitor H&S compliance, such as correct PPE being worn.
• Ensure that the site's equipment is looked after in such a way as to maintain continuous operation and legal compliance.
• Reporting progress and updates via all media platforms available, ensuring full visibility to Facilities Administrators, Lead and Management.
• Audit and review of all stock levels, reporting up to request/or place required orders.
• Attend weekly team meetings and deliver Tool Box talks
• Carry out basic and varied construction works.
• Assist with receiving deliveries and stock management.

Qualifications & Experiences

• Strong understanding of COSHH.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in cross-functional teams.
• A positive and helpful attitude towards Health & Safety, Welfare and safe systems of working.
• Full UK driving license.
• Capable of dynamic risk assessing activities being undertaken

Aspirational Qualifications & Experiences

• City & Guilds Construction Qualifications
• Building Construction Qualifications
• Practical Training/Apprenticeship
• Proficient in Decorating and/or Qualification
• Ground works/Drainage experience
• CSCS Card
• IPAF/Forklift certification

Business Overview

Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden (WBSL) is a world-class film and TV studio offering one of the largest facilities in the UK. The purpose-built studio site is home to 20 sound stages, production offices, workshops, an indoor water tank, and an extensive, clear-horizon backlot.

WBSL includes the on-site production rentals business, Warner Bros. Set Lighting & Rigging, which provides the industry with state-of-the-art lighting equipment, scaffolding, and production supplies for stage and location shoots worldwide. In addition, Warner Bros. De Lane Lea, based in London, provides picture and sound post-production services for film and TV, and has a dedicated Dailies department on the lot at WBSL.

Warner Bros. Leavesden Park, adjacent to the Studio, offers modern and flexible office space for productions and is home to The WonderWorks, a bespoke childcare facility available to those working on site.

With a range of services including an on-site gym, café, and wellbeing room, WBSL provides the perfect home for productions and has become the studio of choice for many filmmakers worldwide.

Onsite Working - This role is advertised as Onsite, meaning all working hours and days (regardless of shift pattern) will be carried out at the place of work. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement, where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done

Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.