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.
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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.
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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.
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Job Ref: Durham 6296015133917
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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