Job Title: General Maintenance Assistant
Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a General Maintenance Assistant at our Skelton site.
The role
As a General Maintenance Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. An opportunity exists for a General Maintenance Assistant to work in a leading defence technology company delivering a wide range of design, manufacturing, and operational support projects to defence customers.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. The cleaning of domestic and technical installations, equipment, and site vehicles.
2. Maintenance of domestic water and drainage systems.
3. Ordering materials to maintain cost effective stock levels.
4. General labouring and porterage including receipt, packing and dispatch of goods.
5. To maintain technical and administration records and provide information as required.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working onsite at Skelton.
Essential experience of the General Maintenance Assistant:
6. A comprehensive knowledge of current safe working practices and safety procedures
7. 1-2 years’ experience of general building maintenance and cleaning techniques.
8. Possession of a current full UK driving licence.
9. Basic Computer skills including email, Word and spreadsheets.
Qualifications for the General Maintenance Assistant:
10. Minimum GSCE Grade C in Maths and English or NVQ level2.
Security Clearance
11. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.
12. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ()
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity