Premises Assistant

Skanska; Basildon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm seeks a Premises Assistant to join their Building Services team in Basildon. Responsibilities include providing caretaking services, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and maintaining cleanliness of the premises. Ideal candidates will have customer service skills, maintenance experience, and the ability to work under pressure. This permanent role offers the opportunity to contribute to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in maintenance or as a Handyperson is preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the onsite premises team in providing caretaking services.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation.
• Monitor and ensure cleanliness of the school premises.
• Manage planned and reactive maintenance tasks.
• Operate heating plant to maintain required temperatures.

Skills

Excellent customer service

Planning and prioritising

Ability to work under pressure

Maintenance or Handyperson experience

Problem solving

Job description

General information

City / town: Basildon | Job field: Other Operations | External closing date: Monday, January 5, 2026 | Type of contract: Permanent | ID: 5741

Description and requirements

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 Premises Assistant to join our Building Services team located in Basildon, Essex. The role will be to assist the Premises Manager and team onsite, liaise with our Helpdesk, cleaning and grounds teams ensuring our service is delivered to the highest standards. This role will involve building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders to deliver the requirements of our customers.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to the Onsite Premises team in the provision of a caretaking Service within the school.
• To comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including Health and Safety legislation and safe systems of work.
• To ensure all planned and reactive maintenance is carried out as determined by PPM plan, Helpdesk, and line manager.
• Monitoring and ensuring the cleanliness of the school premises and furnishings and reporting any deficiencies to the Line Manager and to the Helpdesk.
• Contribute to the management of CoSHH onsite.
• Operating the heating plant so that the required temperatures are maintained in the premises and an adequate supply of hot water is available. Carrying out frost precaution procedures as appropriate.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Excellent customer Service and communications skills.
• Planning and prioritising skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Maintenance or Handyperson experience.
• Problem solving skills.

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.

Flexible working

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

Closing date

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

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