Premises Assistant

Skanska UK Plc; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction and project development company is seeking a Premises Assistant in Chelmsford, England. The role involves assisting the Premises Manager, ensuring maintenance compliance, and liaising with multiple teams. Key responsibilities include managing cleanliness, conducting planned maintenance, and operating heating facilities. Ideal candidates will have customer service experience and maintenance skills. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to a welcoming environment within a school setting.

Qualifications

• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Experience in maintenance or handyperson roles.
• Ability to operate heating plant and manage pool maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Premises Manager and team onsite.
• Monitor cleanliness of school premises.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Conduct planned and reactive maintenance as needed.

Skills

Excellent customer Service

Planning and prioritising skills

Ability to work under pressure

Maintenance or Handyperson experience

Pool plant and maintenance experience

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 Premises Assistant to join our Building Services team located in Chelmsford, 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 Line Manager and to the Helpdesk.
• Contribute to the management of CoSHH onsite
• To ensure the smooth operations of the Hydrotheraphy Pools (Columbus School and College Only)
• 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
• Pool plant and maintenance experience

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] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, 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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