Facilities Services Assistant

Walker Morris LLP; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,500 - 32,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 10% of salary

25 days annual leave + bank holidays (

Employer pension contributions 6%

Death in service 4x salary

Job summary

Walker Morris LLP is seeking a Facilities Services Assistant to join the Leeds office. You will support day-to-day facilities services, respond to colleagues and visitors, and help create a welcoming, well-organised working environment.

This fully office‑based role involves building operations, health and safety, security, and supplier coordination. Salary around £30,500 plus up to 10% annual bonus, with benefits and pension discussed during recruitment.

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities management, ideally within a busy facilities team or similar office environment.
• Genuine interest in building skills and developing within facilities management.
• Clear, confident communication with colleagues, visitors, contractors and suppliers.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills, with confidence handling records and requests.
• Team-focused approach, with ability to work independently when needed.
• Facilities qualification would be helpful but isn’t essential.
• Proactive, positive attitude and commitment to following tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support the Facilities Services Manager to ensure contractor work is completed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Help plan and oversee office moves with minimal disruption.
• Work with the Facilities Technician on maintenance tasks.
• Support building security management including access control and CCTV.
• Assist with regular health and safety audits and inspections.
• Keep facilities services running smoothly and ensure timely maintenance.

Skills

Facilities management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Teamwork

Independent working

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Facilities Services Assistant to join our Facilities Team to help maintain our Leeds office running smoothly, safely and professionally every day.

This is a hands-on role at the heart of our office. You'll support the day-to-day delivery of facilities services, respond to colleague and visitor needs, and help create a welcoming, well-organised working environment.

Working closely with the wider Facilities Team, you'll get involved in a broad range of building operations, including office set-up, project works, supplier selection, meeting room support, health and safety, building maintenance compliance, physical security, and general facilities requests.

As the Facilities Services Assistant, you will:

• Support the Facilities Services Manager to make sure contractor work is completed safely, on time, within budget and in line with agreed standards.
• Help plan and oversee office moves, ensuring they are well organised and cause minimal disruption.
• Work with the Facilities Technician on maintenance tasks when required.
• Support with the management of building security including access control, CCTV and key management.
• Assist with regular health and safety audits and building inspections, resolving or raising any issues quickly with the Facilities Services Manager.
• Help keep facilities services running smoothly each day, making sure equipment and plant are maintained to a good standard and any maintenance is completed within agreed timescales.

We are looking for:

• Experience working in facilities management, ideally within a busy facilities team or similar office environment.
• A genuine interest in building skills and developing within facilities management.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to high standards.
• Clear, confident communication skills, with the ability to work well with colleagues, visitors, contractors and suppliers.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills, with confidence handling everyday records, information and requests.
• A team-focused approach, with the confidence to work independently when needed.
• A facilities qualification would be helpful, but it isn’t essential for the role.
• A proactive, positive attitude and the commitment to follow tasks through.

Due to the nature of the role, this is a fully office‑based position at our Leeds City Centre office.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of experience, circa. £30,500 per annum.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race,religionor ethnicity.Clickhereto find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, pleasedon’thesitate to ask. We are aDisability Confident employer.