Maintenance & Estates Technician

jobs24.co.uk; Oxford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vital Estates Team as a Maintenance & Estates Technician, where you will ensure a world-class environment for care and volunteering. This role involves managing maintenance for a portfolio of 24 retail shops and the hospice site, requiring innovative solutions and excellent communication skills. You will work closely with the Head of Facilities and Operations, contributing to a flexible and committed team dedicated to exceeding quality standards. With a permanent full-time position offering a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact, this is an exciting chance to enhance the lives of those in the community.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to engage others and communicate effectively.
• Experience in maintenance and skilled in using various tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day maintenance of a retail property portfolio.
• Organize repairs, refits, and maintenance work at the hospice.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Maintenance Experience

Power Tools Usage

Hand Tools Usage

Plumbing

Electrical Work

Carpentry

Mechanical Skills

Painting & Decorating

Health and Safety Awareness

Tools

Power Tools

Hand Tools

Job description

Come join our incredibly vital Estates Team as a Maintenance & Estates Technician! You will play a key role in ensuring Helen & Douglas House continues to be a world-class environment to receive care, as well as to work, shop, and volunteer. Working closely with the Head of Facilities and Operations and colleagues in the Estates Team, you will be one of two with primary responsibility for the day-to-day maintenance of our retail property portfolio of 24 shops. This will include day-to-day upkeep, managing a schedule of significant shop repairs and refits, as well as organizing dilapidations and being part of a team carrying out maintenance work on the Oxford hospice site.

To be successful, you must be innovative with solutions, able to work autonomously, and be motivated to provide an efficient service that will benefit our children, guests, families, volunteers, customers, and staff.

Skills we are looking for:

1. Proven ability to engage others and communicate using various methods along with excellent interpersonal skills.
2. Proven experience in maintenance, and skilled in using power and hand tools.
3. Experience in any of the following: Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Engines/Generators, Mechanical, Painting & Decorating.
4. Awareness (although training will be provided) of: Electricity at work regulations, provision & use of work equipment regulations, LPG regulations, Legionella & standing water, working at height regulations, and working in confined spaces.

Professional, flexible, and committed to going above and beyond the remit of the role to achieve and exceed quality. Maintain awareness of health, welfare, and safety issues affecting colleagues, patients, visitors, customers, and themselves, reporting any accidents or faults in line with organizational policy.

This role is flexible but will require frequent travel to our shops, and therefore the postholder must be able to drive in order to carry out the duties of the role. Please note, we are interviewing as applications come in; therefore, we advise you to apply early if interested. The advert may close early if sufficient applications are received.

This is a permanent full-time role for 37.5 hours per week. In return, we can offer you a salary of £28,064 - £34,800 per annum dependent on experience.