Maintenance Officer

The Guildhall Northampton; Northampton; Presencial; GBP 28 000 - 29 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

West Northants Council is seeking a Maintenance Officer to deliver a programme of maintenance, repairs and building support across the council's corporate properties in Northampton. The role focuses on reactive, compliance and planned maintenance, including general repairs, inspections and minor works, ensuring buildings remain safe, warm and fit for purpose.

Working pattern is 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 10:00–18:00 and Friday 10:00–17:30.

Qualificações

• Solid understanding of general maintenance and repair techniques across a varied property portfolio.
• Knowledge of risk assessments and health and safety procedures; IOSH Managing Safely qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsabilidades

• Carry out reactive, compliance and planned maintenance activities across corporate properties.
• Oversee contractors on site, conduct site inductions and issue permits for hot works.
• Conduct regular internal and external inspections, prioritise repairs and coordinate actions to minimise disruption.
• Ensure all activities comply with health and safety legislation and council procedures.

Conhecimentos

Maintenance knowledge

Health & safety

IOSH Managing Safely

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic maintenance officer to deliver a comprehensive programme of maintenance, repairs and building support services across West Northamptonshire Council’s corporate properties.

Vacancies

Maintenance Officer

What will you be doing?

This includes reactive, compliance and planned maintenance activities, ranging from general repairs and building inspections to minor works such as decorating, plumbing repairs and facilities maintenance, ensuring council buildings remain safe, secure, compliant, warm and fit for purpose.

This position operates on a fixed working pattern of 10:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Thursday and 10:00am to 5:30pm on Friday.

The role will be responsible for carrying out general maintenance activities and monitoring building systems across the corporate estate, including heating, lighting, drainage, guttering and mechanical installations. The postholder will undertake both scheduled and reactive maintenance works where appropriate, helping to reduce reliance on external contractors and ensuring council buildings remain operational and well maintained.

You will conduct regular internal and external inspections of corporate buildings, including roof inspections, identifying defects in the building fabric, fixtures, fittings and furniture, as well as any issues affecting mechanical or electrical systems. Following assessment, you will prioritise repairs, complete works where possible, or coordinate action through the Property Response Desk to minimise disruption and ensure buildings remain safe, secure, dry, warm and fit for purpose.

The role will also involve overseeing contractors on site, including carrying out site inductions, providing contractor familiarisation and issuing permits for hot works where required. You will ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with health and safety legislation, council policies and operational procedures.

About You

You must have a solid understanding of general maintenance and repair techniques, together with experience of undertaking building maintenance activities across a varied property portfolio.

Knowledge of manual handling practices, risk assessments, and health and safety procedures, supported by an IOSH Managing Safely qualification or equivalent practical experience in a maintenance, facilities, or property environment.

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.

About Us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services. Hear from our Chief Executive, Martin Henry, about building a career at WNC.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

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Attached documents

• Maintenance Officer JD.pdf

• Salary £27,914 - £28,781
• Salary Frequency Annual
• Working Hours 37
• Job Reference Ref/53/9466
• Contract Type Full Time
• Contract Details Permanent
• Closing Date 25 October, 2026
• Job Category Facilities Management
• Location Northampton , United Kingdom
• Job Posted Date 8 October, 2026