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Facilities Technician

Employer
The Scout Association
Location
Broadstone, Kent, United Kingdom
Salary
£32000/annum
Closing date
25 Aug 2022

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Job Sector
Construction
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We have an exciting opportunity for a Facilities Technician to join our team based in Broadstone, East Sussex. We will offer you a competitive salary of £32,000 per annum, Band D, Level 3, inclusive of Outer London Weighting and a market supplement.

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

The  Facilities Technician Role:

We've got a great opportunity to join our expanding and fast-paced Facilities Team at an exciting time for Scouts. The team is bursting with spirit and a strong work ethic, to help provide all the necessary improvements to run our sites.

Every day provides a different but exciting opportunity to make change and better our sites through the effective use of your skills. We'll encourage and work with you to enhance your career and develop with us.

You'll be given freedom and flexibility to do your job, and we'll encourage you to reach your full potential and show us how your training and experience can be applied within our team.

Key responsibilities as our  Facilities Technician:

- Provide a flexible high standard of repair and maintenance across multi trades 

- Be proactive around the sites in fault finding, diagnosing faults, identifying when something isn't right and looking for opportunities for continuous Improvements to maximising asset life cycles

- Undertake compliance actions, monitoring, planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance on building or estate related system and infrastructure

- Self-manage and prioritise workload ensuring building access is arranged and materials ordered and job systems updated as required

- To be thoroughly familiar with building fabric, plant and equipment and monitor as required

- Ensure all work tasks are adequately risk assessed and documented prior to work starting and ensure systems such as permits to work and our in house process documents are fully followed

- Working within Statutory, Legislative, approved codes of practice(ACOP’s) and HSE requirements at all time 

- Look after company vans and workshops ensuring tools and equipment and returned and they are kept stocked and tidy

What we are looking for in our  Facilities Technician:

- Working knowledge of building services, plant, equipment, HVAC and hot & cold piped systems, 

- Working knowledge and ability to use compliance, asset care and job progress systems

-Working knowledge of Statutory and Legislative requirements and Codes of Practice for relevant trade

- Ability to use Word, Excel. Internet and email systems

- Current industry training such as legionella awareness, asbestos awareness, COSHH, H&S, Manual handling, working at height, abrasive wheels, fire marshal and first aid 

- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent and completed a recognized City & Guilds or NVQ Diploma (or equivalent) as an electrician, plumber or carpenter

- Working Knowledge of other trade disciplines with ability to complete multi trade work.

- Full clean driving License and happy to travel for work

- Ability to manage contractors with experience

- Ability to read and interpret building services drawings and documentation.

What we can offer you as our  Facilities Technician:

- 25 days holiday and going up to 28 days after 2 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service

- Additional holidays between Christmas & New Year

- Life Assurance

- Simply Health Scheme

- Generous Pension Scheme

- Free car parking

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…

- Up to four personal days paid leave a year

- Maternity/Paternity Leave

- Childcare Vouchers

- Flexible working hours

- Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits

- Study and volunteer leave

Closing date: Sun, 4 September 2022 at 23:59

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our fantastic team! Click ‘Apply’ now!

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.

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