Lead Facilities Assistant

Skanska UK Plc; Scotland; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction group in Scotland is seeking a Lead Facilities Assistant to oversee a team and provide essential facilities support. Responsibilities include supervising staff, ensuring safety compliance, conducting inspections, and managing maintenance tasks. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in customer-focused environments and maintenance skills. Competitive support for candidates requiring adjustments during the recruitment process is available.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a busy and demanding customer-focused environment.
• Understanding of health and safety application.
• Demonstrable maintenance skills.
• Experience in maintenance environments.
• Ability to follow instructions and procedures.
• Ability to use office computer systems.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Facilities Assistants and assist the Facilities Manager.
• Conduct routine checks and inspections of facilities and equipment.
• Provide initial response to reported faults.
• Conduct repairs to fixtures and fittings.
• Manage signing in of subcontractors.

Skills

Customer service experience

Health and safety understanding

Maintenance skills

Office computer systems

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an

inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Lead Facilities Assistant to join our Facilities team in Midlothian.

Working as a Lead Facilities Assistant you will be responsible for providing facilities support within the Midlothian area. This principally involves Supervising a team of Facilities Assistants and supporting Facilities Manager in dealing with events via Helpdesk which will include, Security, reception, portering and caretaking services but also includes planned and reactive maintenance activities and statutory compliance.

What You’ll do:

• Building and Cleaning monitoring. Auditing of statutory testing.
• Conducting routine checks and inspection of facilities and equipment.
• Undertaking minor maintenance work such as lamp changing.
• Providing initial response to any reported faults.
• Conducting repairs to fixtures and fittings.
• Assisting with minor and major moves within the school.
• Undertaking conference room set up for meetings in Community rooms.
• Manage the signing in of Subcontractors for Skanska
• Book in Permit holders for Lets.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Proven experience of working in a busy and demanding customer focused environment.
• Understanding of health and safety and its application to the working environment.
• Demonstrable maintenance skills such as home maintenance.
• Experience of working within a maintenance environment.
• Ability to understand and follow instructions and procedures.
• Ability to use office computer systems including e-mail, spreadsheets, and databases.

This vacancy is classed as a Regulated Role by Disclosure Scotland. The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 makes it an offence for an organisation to engage a person who is barred from working with children and/or protected adults and for an individual to put themselves forward for a regulated role whilst barred. In accordance with the requirements of our statutory obligations, all offers made to Regulated Roles must be made subject to the receipt of confirmation of PVG Scheme membership.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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