Facilities Assistant - Contract

Playground Games Limited; Holly (MI); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and passionate team at a leading Xbox Game Studio as a Facilities Assistant. In this full-time role, you'll ensure our studios operate smoothly, maintaining a tidy and organized environment. Your proactive and friendly approach will help support various tasks, from assisting with events to conducting health and safety checks. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a collaborative culture that values diversity and inclusion while working on genre-defining games. Be part of a team that celebrates creativity and innovation in one of the industry's most thrilling environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is preferred.
• Basic awareness of health and safety in workplace.

Responsibilities

• Support operational Facilities across the business.
• Assist with desk moves, room setups, and events.
• Conduct regular health and safety checks.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Customer service skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Basic awareness of health and safety

Experience using Microsoft Office

Full clean driving licence

Education

IOSH Working Safely Certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Facilities Assistant to join our growing Facilities team at Playground Games.

About us:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.

About the Role:

You will support both studios with the operational Facilities across the business. This will include keeping our studios tidy, organised and operating smoothly. We are an award winning Xbox Games Studio and its important to us that our studios and working environment reflect this.

You will assist with desk moves, room set ups, support events, restock vending machines, replenish stock and cupboards, keep rooms clean and tidy, empty bins and ensure waste is disposed of correctly, complete regular health and safety and maintenance checks, and assist others within the Facilities team with basic maintenance tasks.

This position requires a warm, friendly and dynamic individual with the ability to multi task and always deliver exceptional service.

This a full time, studio based, contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.

What you’ll do:

• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Willing to learn and take on a wide variety of tasks
• Excellent customer service skills – at PG our staff are our customers
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to respond quickly to problems and be flexible about prioritising your day
• A proactive and enthusiastic attitude toward work
• A team player mind-set and can do approach with willingness to “muck in” when required
• Basic awareness of health and safety in workplace
• Experience of maintaining timely and accurate records
• Experience using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Teams and Word
• A Full clean driving licence

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in a similar role
• IOSH Working Safely Certificate
• Experience of working in the games industry would be beneficial but not essential.

Playground Games is an equal opportunities studio and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.