General Maintenance Operative Midlands - #1678355

General Maintenance Operative

We have an exciting opportunity for a General Maintenance Operative to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis. Within this role, you will be providing general building maintenance at a range of Marston Holdings premises across the country to ensure that they are kept safe, secure and in good condition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Carrying out a variety of planned and reactive building maintenance tasks, including general building, joinery, tiling, painting, paving and external works, drainage works and plumbing.
• Carrying out planned preventative building maintenance in line with set programmes.
• Undertaking general facilities support tasks, including furniture building and furniture removals, grounds and site clearance, and keeping areas clean and tidy generally.
• Managing and prioritising your workload to complete repairs in a timely manner and in accordance with KPI/SLA timescales as well as budgets.
• Using relevant IT systems to record all work undertaken and related expenditure.
• Undertaking regular safety checks on vehicles used for work purposes as required by company policies and procedures to ensure that vehicles are safe.
• Maintaining vehicle records as required and keep vehicles in a clean and tidy order, ensuring that vehicles are secure and correctly parked when not in use.
• Adhering to company health and safety policy and procedures, identify hazards, and undertake point of work risk assessments as required.
• Communicating effectively with building occupiers to minimise inconvenience when planning and undertaking building maintenance.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong numerical skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Strong Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills with an ability to ‘think outside the box’
• Highly motivated, self starter able to work with minimal supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a good team player
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a building trade role or property maintenance role
• Broad experience of completing builder's work and multi-skilled building maintenance tasks (e.g. brickwork, joinery, plaster and tiling repairs, painting, flooring repairs, and basic drainage and plumbing alterations).
• Good time management with proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritise work as necessary to deal with multiple and competing demands on a regular basis.
• Full UK Driving Licence

All employees have a responsibility for their own health and safety and that of others when carrying out their duties and must help us to apply our general statement of health and safety policy.

What would be a bonus:

• City and Guilds craft certificate in a construction trade, or a Level 2 NVQ Diploma in a relevant trade or in multi-trade building maintenance operations
• City & Guilds advanced craft certificate in a construction trade, or a Level 3 NVQ Diploma in a relevant trade or in multi-trade building maintenance operations*
• Multi-Trade skills qualification(s) or similar certificates of competence*

Please note that you must be willing to travel within a defined region as set out by the Estates Team, with a willing to travel further afield occasionally.

What’s in it for you:

• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Staff benefits designed to suit you – from discounts on retail shopping, travel, and socialising to health & wellbeing
• Life Insurance
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Package NB this is subject to eligibility
• Pension Contribution

If this sounds like the job for you, please apply and a member of the recruitment team will be in touch.

Marston Holdings Limited is a parent company formed of eight brand entities that each specialise in key areas of our overarching business. In a nutshell, we are the UK's largest judicial services company and pioneers in clean air technology, offering services that support local and central government, utilities, and private sectors through the delivery of market leading integrated technology-enabled solutions from design and implementation to management and recovery.

We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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