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Department - Trades & Services
Salary - £37,118 (including £3,050 retention allowance).
Flexible Working: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday 8:00 AM - 16:15PM (16:00 PM finish on Fridays). This role is office-based and cannot be undertaken from home. Optional weekend overtime available paid at double time.
We’re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service. Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. As a Facilities Assistant, you’ll be the face of the Estates Department for the majority of our colleagues. Everything you do will help to ensure the smooth running of the organisation. You could be moving office furniture, painting and decorating the internal buildings, changing and servicing secure locks, sorting post room admin, driving a forklift, minibus or lorry among other tasks.
You'll have a degree of autonomy, working in a friendly team set within the Estates Department, providing core facilities and services that support MI6 colleagues in the UK and overseas. Depending on training and medical clearance, there may also be occasional short trips to support our facilities overseas.
You might have trades, logistics or warehouse experience, but it’s not essential – we’ll give you all the training you need when you join. All you’ll need is a full clean UK driving licence and basic knowledge of IT for data entry.
Training and Development
You’ll receive extensive training upon joining, including the following:
External Training
Forklift
First aid in the workplace training
Internal Training
IT training
Health and Safety training, including manual handling and basic fire awareness
Induction training, including unconscious bias and EDI training
We’re committed to your development which is why you’ll be given a Training & Development Plan tailored to you. There’s potential for you to progress into a supervisor or management role, a different role within facilities or even a sideways move into a different department within MI6.
25 days’ annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
~ Interest-free season ticket loan
~ Excellent pension scheme
~ Cycle to work scheme
~ Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars
~ Paid parental and adoption leave
At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website:
We’re Disability Confident
MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:
Full, clean UK driving licence
This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.
This is good practice and will help you to manage your application with us more discretely.
Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.
If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application.