About the job Salary: £37,938 - £40,476 a year plus £963 Essential Car User Allowance (subject to criteria) Hours per week: 37 Contract type: Permanent We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled professional to join our team, focusing on building maintenance and ensuring the efficient delivery of services. In this role, you'll be responsible for managing all aspects of building maintenance work, including working with the Schedule of Rates and adhering to specifications. You will supervise and coordinate both human and material resources to meet the required targets, standards, and deadlines. Your ability to interpret written requests and produce clear specifications, estimates, and technical reports will be key to your success. You'll be communicating with contractors and customers, ensuring that all projects are completed with attention to detail and in compliance with industry standards and regulations. The role also involves a variety of hands-on responsibilities, including site visits and inspections, often requiring you to work outside normal hours and travel across the Town. You will need to be proactive, problem-solve effectively, and be ready to take on emergencies as they arise. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a genuine passion for the building industry, this position offers a great opportunity to make a significant impact. Please note this role does not attract sponsorship. About you You bring a wealth of experience in building maintenance and have a strong understanding of working with building specifications and the Schedule of Rates. You are comfortable allocating labour and materials while ensuring that tasks are completed to the highest standard. With your excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, you can engage with a range of stakeholders and provide clear, professional advice. You have a deep understanding of the building industry, including regulatory and legislative requirements such as Health & Safety. A recognised building trade qualification, such as a City & Guilds, or equivalent supervisory experience, is essential. You're also familiar with working at height, in confined spaces, and handling various site-specific challenges. If you're looking for a role that combines technical expertise, leadership, and the chance to work on diverse and exciting projects, we want to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of building maintenance - we're excited to welcome a talented professional like you to our team This is a public facing role so you'll need to show off your fluency in speaking and writing English About us Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision - that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty - is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents. The people of Luton depend heavily on this council - and that means our workforce Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision? Application Process Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person's criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. Benefits We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include: - From 25 to 32 days' annual leave: linked to length of service and grade - Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave - Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area - Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant - Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility) - Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home - Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns - Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways - Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons - Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel