Premises Assistant (Caretaker)

Our Building Services division provides complete Facilities Management of properties throughout the UK, providing mechanical and electrical engineering support, cleaning, catering and grounds maintenance on a planned and reactive basis, using technological solutions to manage our teams in the most efficient ways.

Skanska, one of the world’s largest development and construction companies, dates back 135 years and had a 2021 revenue of around £12.5 billion. We have 3,300 experts in the UK alone, could joining us be your next career move?

We are looking for a Premises Assistant to join the Commercial Property Maintenance team on one of our projects in Essex.

The purpose of the role to join a team focused on providing an excellent customer experience to our Essex Schools project, the role will be to assist the Premises Manager and team onsite, liaise with our Helpdesk, cleaning and grounds teams ensuring our service is delivered to the highest standards. This role will involve building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders to deliver the requirements of our customers

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to the Onsite Premises team in the provision of a caretaking Service within the school.

• To comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including Health and Safety legislation and safe systems of work.

• To ensure all planned and reactive maintenance is carried out as determined by PPM plan, Helpdesk, and line manager.

• Operating the heating plant so that the required temperatures are maintained in the premises and an adequate supply of hot water is available. Carrying out frost precaution procedures as appropriate.

• To support school and comply with school-based procedures in the event of fire, flood, breaking and entering, accident or major damage.

• To carry out first line investigation / repairs and maintenance with continued collaboration with the Line Manager and the Helpdesk.

• Ensuring that all caretaking equipment is in a safe and working condition and report any faults to the Line Manager and Helpdesk for their repair as appropriate.

• Preparing the school premises and site for assemblies, meetings and out of school activities and clearing up after these activities, providing support as required

• The routine and non-routine opening of premises and grounds. Responding to calls outside normal working hours as a result of break-ins etc. and/or the setting off of the burglar alarm(s)

• To assist with facilitating the day-to-day management of Sub-contractor activity on site

• To ensure safe access and egress on school grounds during periods of inclement weather

• To be available for ongoing evening /weekend lettings / school events and have the flexibility to cover occasional lettings which may arise.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Excellent customer Service and communications skills
• Planning and prioritising skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Maintenance or Handyperson experience
• Problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Aptitude to learn new systems and processes.
• Computer and Mobile devices skills
• Strong Team player
• Flexibility

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected]

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.