About The Role
Role: Joiner & General Building Maintenance
Location: South Ribble & Chorley
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent
Salary: £28,624 - £30,060
Closing Date: 2 April 2025
In this role you will be responsible for maintaining key infrastructure and carrying out small works such as basic plumbing tasks, joinery, general building maintenance tasks, site inspections and statutory inspections with particular emphasis on Fire Door inspections (full training will be provided for this task) across Chorley and South Ribble Councils.
What you’ll be getting up to
* To ensure all Fire door inspections across the estate are carried out in line with the councils Planned Preventive Maintenance planner.
* To undertake small works on a reactive basis, including minor maintenance tasks such as basic plumbing duties, joinery tasks, small building tasks, and general maintenance inspections and works.
* To work closely with the helpdesk team and surveyors to ensure reactive tasks are responded to and actioned as quickly and efficiently as possible.
* Ensure that there is good records management across the property and estates functions, making good use of technology and supporting service delivery.
* Working closely with the Operational Assets service to ensure that the councils’ buildings, assets, and estates are safe, meeting legislative requirements, including via a rolling programme of condition surveys and development and delivery of a planned maintenance programme.
* Provide updates to the property team to ensure any areas of non-compliance are addressed quickly and efficiently; this may require subcontractor interaction.
* Oversee contractors to ensure they are working safely and raise any concerns to the surveyor/leadership team.
* To be flexible and carry out other reasonable responsibilities and duties, which fall within the broad scope of this post.
Who we’re looking for
* Experience in working within a large organisation.
* Extensive experience in a maintenance environment.
* Experience of working on multiple projects at any one time.
* Experience of working with electronic CAFM maintenance systems.
* Experience of working within a team and independently.
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
* Local Government pension.
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
* Volunteering days.
* Free parking.
* Enhanced mileage allowance.
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours, or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional Information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people, or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the 'Contact Us' page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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