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Sewell Group · Onsite · Acomb, York, United Kingdom

Location: Hob Moor Community Primary Academy, Green Lane, York, YO24 4PS

Hours: 30 hours per week, Monday - Friday 12:30pm - 6:30pm

Hourly Pay: £14.86 plus 25p extra if you hold a Pool Plant Operators qualification

Role Overview

Reporting to the Facilities Manager/Facilities Team Manager, the Facilities Officer will be based on site and will have overall responsibility for maintenance, porterage and cleaning services.  The Facilities Officer will also ensure that all services are provided to a consistently high standard and assist the Facilities Management team in all areas required to meet the needs of both the business and the client.  The Facilities Officer will need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the team.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Planned and reactive maintenance as required, responding to all allocated helpdesk requests
  • Utility monitoring
  • General maintenance and repairs to building fabric and associated equipment
  • Identification and reporting/repairing of defects and maintenance requirements
  • Porterage and caretaking tasks (deliveries, emergency cleaning, litter picking, weeding, waste removal and the setting out of furniture)
  • Supervision and induction of Subcontractors; including monitoring of risk assessments & method statement compliance during works
  • Health, Safety & Environmental duties; ensuring that the building is safe and legally compliant
  • Communicate effectively with the client (e.g. head teacher / nominated deputy)
  • Managing fire systems and relevant documentation as Building Fire Officer
  • Carry out the normal operating and testing procedures for the hydrotherapy pool (Hob Moor only)
  • Open and close the building as a key holder, ensuring site security and safe access during bad weather

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential:

  • Computer literate (Microsoft Office)
  • Proactive attitude towards maintaining the facility at a world class quality level
  • Excellent communications skills and the ability to liaise with Tenant Groups & subcontractors
  • Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
  • Positive approach to learning, development and progression
  • Have a trade background or good practical core skills together with previous maintenance experience
  • Have a flexible outlook towards hours worked (some out of hours working may be required to meet the needs of the business)
  • Working knowledge of current Health and Safety practice

Desirable:

  • Previous working experience within a school environment
  • First Aid at Work trained
  • Valid UK Driving license
  • IOSH Managing Safely – or similar qualification
  • Pool Plant Operators qualification

Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

  • Bonus opportunity
  • 22 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 25 days
  • Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
  • Auto Enrolment pension
  • Staff discounts
  • High Street & Retail discount schemes
  • Bike 2 Work Scheme
  • Technology Scheme
  • Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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About Sewell Group

Sewell Group is a multi-disciplined group of companies operating across the North of England. As a family business, it has a long and illustrious history dating back to 1876. Alongside its retail division, which operates 12 fuel and convenience stores across East Yorkshire, Sewell Estates is a collective of built environment businesses made up of Sewell Investments, Sewell Construction, Sewell Facilities Management, Illingworth and Gregory, Sewell Advisory and Parallel Data Intelligence.

At the heart of the business’ vision and strategy is delivering value for the communities it serves, promoting opportunities by employing local people and investing in developing talent, as well as giving back to communities and supporting the regional economy through commissioning the local supply chain.

Sewell pride themselves on their commitment to support, train, develop and reward employees. In return, they ask that their employees work hard, live the company behaviours and have some fun along the way. Culture is a massive part of the day-to-day life at Sewell and its people follow core principles of being Positive; Professional; Customer Focused; Team Players; and Always Doing the Right Thing.

In 2021 the Group was recognised as one of only 18 businesses across the country in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity – the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses. We have also been recognised again in 2022 as a 3 Star World Class 'Best Companies to Work For', the 7th best in the Yorkshire and Humber Region, and feature in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies list.

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