Maintenance Officer

Liaise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading pay rates

Length of service leave (up to five)

Blue Light Discount Card

Access to Stream pay app

Employee Assistance Programme

Free compliance training and career发展

NEST Pension Scheme

Free enhanced DBS check

Life Assurance (2 x salary)

Job summary

Progress Housing is seeking a Maintenance Officer to carry out planned and reactive maintenance to facilities, grounds, and vehicles, ensuring health and safety and regulatory standards are met. You will inspect services, coordinate with managers, and source supplies for care home environments.

You will handle emergency repairs, preventive maintenance, leaks, and fire alarm testing, with COSHH knowledge and ability to work across electrical, plumbing, painting, and carpentry tasks.

Qualifications

• Ability to carry out planned and reactive maintenance in a care home environment.
• Knowledge of electrical and plumbing systems preferred.
• Experience with painting, decorating, carpentry and basic maintenance tasks.
• Experience with fire alarm testing and safety equipment.
• Familiarity with COSHH regulations and safe handling of hazardous substances.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance to facilities, grounds and vehicles.
• Inspect and evaluate contract services and coordinate with managers to source supplies.
• Schedule repairs to minimise disruption to service users and maintain a safe environment.
• Respond to emergency repair situations promptly and safely, addressing health and safety concerns.

Skills

Electrical systems

Plumbing systems

Painting & decorating

Carpentry

Fire alarm testing

Preventive maintenance

Leak checks

COSHH knowledge

Job description

About the role.

To carry out planned and reactive maintenance to all services, grounds and vehicles ensuring that all Health & Safety, regulatory and company standards are met.

At Progress Housing, you will work with extraordinary people who achieve fantastic successes. Your main responsibilities will be to inspect and evaluate contract services, coordinate with managers, instructors, and others to provide equipment and materials needed within the care home environment, source and purchase good quality supplies and materials whilst being cost effective.

You will be working in an environment, which supports service users with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and associated complex health needs, to live the life they want to within our services. You will support the managers of these services by ensuring a safe environment for the service users, scheduling repairs and maintenance so there is minimal disruption the service users.

You will respond to emergency repair situations immediately considering health and safety requirements and solutions for repairs or replacements. You will need to perform skilled duties in the operations, maintenance, and repair of buildings and grounds areas

About You

• You will be kind, compassionate, empathetic and comfortable to work in a care home environment
• You will ideally have knowledge of maintaining and repairing electrical and plumbing systems
• You will ideally be comfortable to assist with painting and decorating, plumbing and carpentry work, maintaining electrical equipment and fire alarm testing as required
• You will be able to perform preventive maintenance on equipment and building facility systems
• You will undertake regular checks for leaks within the water and for proper operation of boiler, water heater, furnace and refrigeration
• You will report any potential hazards to the Registered Manager
• You will maintain gardens in line with health and safety regulations
• You will be willing to take on any additional responsibilities on behalf of the service as instructed by the facilities manager
• You will have knowledge of COSHH requirements

Package.

• Market leading pay rates
• Length of service leave (up to five extra days holiday)
• Fully funded Blue Light Discount Card
• Access to Stream - our financial wellbeing app that lets you access your pay as and when you earn it, get discounts at supermarkets and helps you save.
• Employee Assistance Programme (access to free telephone counselling and legal advice)
• Free compliance training, and opportunities to develop
• NEST Pension Scheme
• Free enhanced DBS check
• Life Assurance (2 x salary)

The successful applicant will need to pass an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory referencing prior to commencing employment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome, and encourage, applications from all backgrounds - we are happy to discuss any possible reasonable adjustments. Please note the Maintenance Officer role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.