What's involved with this role: Temporary Premises Assistant - FM Reference no: Durham 6296015133917 Pay Rate: £13.88 per hour PAYE 37 Monday to Friday, TBC This opening assignment is for 6-7 months City: DURHAM Shift work Assist in the operational management of designated the County Council buildings ensuring they are safe, compliant and maintained to the agreed standards. Key Responsibilities: Support the Assistant Facilities Officers and the Facilities Officers by assisting in the provision of an efficient and effective Facilities Management service. Ensure the correct operation of mechanical and electrical systems e.g.heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plant and equipment and associated computerised control systems e.g. Building Management Systems. Oversee operation, testing and maintenance of security and fire alarm systems, generators and lift installations. Undertake some limited maintenance activities and repairs including planned maintenance and compliance checks e.g. water sampling, fire alarm and emergency lighting tests to ensure the building provides a safe working environment. Participate in all aspects of property and site security including key holder responsibilities, operation of alarms and CCTV and emergency response. Undertake regular inspections of premises and attend to or report any defects to provide a safe compliant environment. Undertake car parking, caretaking and portering duties as and when required. Comply with recycling and confidential waste arrangements and assistance with cleaning requirements. Assist in the relocation of staff from or between offices and buildings. Qualifications: NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a relevant discipline Knowledge: Knowledge of safe working practices in premises based facilities environment Experience: Experience of working in a general maintenance/ premises based environment providing appropriate solutions in response to building management user requests. Experience of working in multi occupancy premises providing soft FM services. Experience of cleaning, car park monitoring, portering and/or caretaking responsibilities. Experience of Keyholder and security alarm installations. Skills & Abilities: Good communication skills both written and oral. Good interpersonal skills Ability to relate to personnel at all levels of the organisation Ability to work on own initiative, assess situations and show a common sense approach to resolving problems using own initiative Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please