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Facilities Assistant (Temporary)
Location: Pontefract
Pay rate: Around £12.71 per hour
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Temporary until August
We are currently recruiting for a reliable and hands-on Facilities Assistant to join a busy site in Pontefract. This is a key role in ensuring the site remains safe, secure, and well maintained for staff and visitors.
About the role
- Working Hours: 37 hours per week
- Monday – Friday: Between 6:00 AM and 5:00 PM
- Around £12.71 per hour
- Weekly pay
Key Responsibilities
- Opening and closing the site
- General maintenance and basic repairs
- Carrying out health & safety checks across the premises
- Setting up rooms for meetings and events
- Monitoring site security and responding to issues or emergencies
- Liaising with contractors where required
- Ensuring outdoor areas and buildings are kept safe and presentable
The Ideal Candidate Will
- Have previous facilities, maintenance, or site support experience (similar environment desirable)
- Be practical, proactive, and reliable
- Have a good understanding of health & safety procedures
- Be flexible and comfortable working early or split shifts
Compliance
- Enhanced DBS (essential)
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Facilities / Workplace Operations Specialist to join our team. This role is pivotal in ensuring our workplace operates efficiently, remains well-maintained, and provides a safe and welcoming environment for all. The successful candidate will support a variety of workplace tasks, including facilities administration, compliance checks, access control, stock management, and general studio operations. With an upcoming move, this role will also play a key part in preparation activities such as equipment tracking, audits, and coordination tasks.
If you are detail-oriented, practical, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply.
Catch 22 is partnering with a leading FM Service provider to recruit a Workplace Maintenance Engineer to deliver high-quality planned and reactive maintenance within a premium workplace environment in Milton Keynes.
The role combines building engineering and fabric/handyperson duties, ensuring safe, compliant and well-presented facilities. You’ll work alongside subcontractors, manage jobs through Helpdesk/CAFM systems, and maintain audit-ready compliance records.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering PPM and reactive maintenance across electrical, mechanical, HVAC and building fabric
- Fault finding, minor works and first-line repairs with minimal disruption
- Coordinating contractors and supporting statutory compliance activities
- Maintaining accurate job, asset and compliance records via CAFM and SharePoint
- Providing a professional, customer-focused service to stakeholders
Key requirements:
- Recognised trade qualification (mechanical)
- Strong experience in FM or live operational environments
- Sound knowledge of UK H&S, RAMS and permit-to-work systems
- Organised, safety-focused and confident working independently
In return, our client is offering a salary of £42,000 per annum plus £2400 on-call payments as well as a generous benefits package.
This is a great opportunity for a hands-on, service-driven engineer looking to work in a varied and professional workplace setting.
Regional Facilities Manager, Bournemouth/ Southampton/ South Coast Region, c£60k plus car allowance (£4.8k)
Catch 22 are working with a leading social care provider to recruit an experienced Regional Facilities Manager to oversee a portfolio of approximately 10 special needs schools and children's residential homes across the Bournemouth/ Southampton/ South Coast region.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage site managers (with on-site maintenance teams), and mobile maintenance technicians across the smaller sites.
- Oversee Capex and R&M budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery and regulatory compliance.
- Work closely with operational teams to align site requirements with budgets and service needs.
- Manage external contractors and suppliers, ensuring high-quality planned and reactive works.
- Support larger capital projects alongside the development team.
- Maintain safe, well-managed environments that directly impact service users’ wellbeing.
Ideal Candidate:
- Proven multi-site estates/facilities management experience, from a care, education or retail setting would be advantageous.
- Strong project management experience from inception to completion.
- Skilled in managing contractors, schedules of works, and tender processes.
- Analytical, methodical, detail-oriented, and proficient in Excel.
- Highly organised, flexible, and resilient, with excellent communication skills.
- Driving licence.
- Degree or professional qualification in a relevant field preferred.
This is a permanent position, paying a salary of c£60,0000 + car allowance and would be an excellent opportunity to joining a growing and rewarding organisation. This is a Hybrid role with option to work from home 2-3 days p/week.
Please apply with CV and cover note including salary expectations and notice period.
Our client are a large healthcare organisation who are looking for an Estates Compliance Engineer with a Mechanical Engineering background to supervise the building operations, manage the safe operation and maintenance of mechanical systems within a large healthcare site within the Keighley, Bradford region.
This is a great opportunity to work with a large organisation that offers great opportunities, benefits and progression. This role is ideal for someone that has previously been an Mechanical Engineer with document management experience and looking for an office based role.
Role Responsibilities;
- Manage the operation of complex Healthcare Mechanical systems. E.g AHU’s, Hot and Cold water systems, Medical Gas pipeline systems, Legionella checks, Pneumatic tube and pumping systems, boiler plant, refrigeration and chiller plant equipment.
- Handling Risk assessments and ensuring compliance is maintained.
- Ensure Health and Safety regulations are complied with.
- Work closely with the Senior Operations Engineer with projects, people supervision and management of building operations.
Ideal Candidate Experience;
- Hold relevant technical qualifications within Mechanical Engineering or Building services e.g Minimum HND/HNC Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or Level 3 apprenticeship.
- Have a strong engineering background within a facilities management environment (Essential)
- Have strong knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, ideally with relevant qualifications such as IOSH/NEBOSH (Preferred)
- Hold previous experience working within a large commercial building, ideally within healthcare environment and knowledge of BMS systems (Preferred)
- Have excellent people management skills.
Role Benefits;
- Salary around £41,000 per annum
- 37.5 hours per week, Mon – Fri hours
- 26 days + Bank holidays
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Reduced parking and static site
If you are interested in this role, please apply or get in touch with Laura on for more information on LauraHastings@c22.co.uk or 0113 242 8055.
Catch 22 are working with a national organisation who are recruiting a Commercial Energy Assessor to support energy compliance across a national portfolio of healthcare and commercial buildings.
This role focuses on delivering EPCs, DECs and recommendation reports to meet Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, working closely with internal teams and external partners. You’ll carry out site assessments, analyse energy consumption data, and contribute to sustainability and Green Plan initiatives across complex estate environments.
The ideal candidate will be accredited Level 4 Commercial Energy Assessor (Level 5 desirable) with proven experience producing EPCs and DECs using specialist software. Due to the nature of the role you will hold strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills and have the ability to work independently across multiple sites and priorities
In return our client is offering a salary up to £45,000 per annum + other benefits.
Catch 22 are currently working with a growing property management firm looking to recruit a Centre Manager to cover a commercial site in Barnsley.
Centre Manager Core responsibilities include:
- Dealing with tenant enquiries and managing their expectations with regards to the site and their workspace.
- Managing customer enquiries, arranging viewings and organising sales and lettings.
- Conducting audits and inspections of the site and units to ensure a compliant and safe working environment.
- Booking maintenance requests and dealing with external contractors working onsite.
- Overseeing minor works projects and developments including if required decommissioning/demolishing of units.
- Maintaining high tenant occupancy and create rent forecasts for the coming months.
Ideal candidates will have previous experience overseeing large industrial lettings with excellent customer service and experience managing tenants and sales. Having Facilities Management or Health & Safety qualifications would also be beneficial though not required for this role.
For this the client offer a salary up to £28,000 per annum plus bonus schemes as well as great starting holiday allowance and company discount scheme.
Job description
Job title: Critical Engineering Manager
Overall purpose: As a CBRE Critical Engineering Manager, you will lead and oversee the engineering teams responsible for resolving and completing day-to-day PPM’s & Work Orders, ensuring all tasks are delivered safely, efficiently, zero impact to clients operation and to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and experience. You are responsible for the delivery of resilient, compliant, and highly reliable engineering services, ensuring uninterrupted operations within critical environments.
Reporting to: Senior Facilities Manager Reporting employees:
The Critical Engineering Manager leads a multi-skilled Engineering team, including Critical Shift Leaders & Shift Engineers.
Responsibilities/ Tasks:
The primary responsibilities and tasks of the Critical Engineering Manager are:
• To respect and act according to CBRE’s rules, regulations and values RISE: Respect, Integrity, Service & Excellence), leading by example with model behaviors.
• Maintain and continuously improve the resilience of all critical systems to achieve zero unplanned downtime.
• Review and approve RAMS and assess impact risk of PPM’s, repairs, project and reactive work efforts.
• Manage, plan, coordinate, schedule, and oversee the workload, deadlines, and day-to-day activities of the support team members to ensure exceptional delivery of services.
• Arrange and coordinate holiday, training & sickness cover for other members of the shift team. Individual & team performance reviews.
• Evaluate and produce annual Planned Preventative Maintenance assessments of plant and equipment and issue recommendations on efficiency improvements and upgrades.
• Technical fault finding and diagnosis of integrated critical power and cooling systems
• Produce monthly reports as required including equipment efficiency/reliability
• Produce incident reports when required • Resolve complex problems and identify appropriate approaches to
existing solutions to accomplish team objectives. • Ensure that all contractors and staff comply with all company, client
safety, and security requirements. • Assist with the development of critical services training programs such as
CNET and CERM • Act as authorising engineer where required. • Point of contact for client and management escalation. • Share expertise and industry experience with the team to help resolve
operational problems. • Provide leadership to on-site engineers, shift teams, and supervisors to
ensure safe, compliant, and high-quality engineering practices. • Oversee maintenance strategies in line with CBRE and client-specific
standards. • Oversee day-to-day work order delivery, monitoring workload,
prioritisation, and response to critical requests. • Support & work in coordination with the Building Manager, Senior
Technical Manager & Lead Facilities Support.
Job description
Job title: Critical Engineering Manager
• Achieve contractual SLAs/KPIs such as PPM completion, incident response times, uptime metrics and audit scores.
Skills & Qualifications
• Relevant engineering qualifications (HNC/HND, C&G, NVQ L3+, or degree level).
• CNET or similar accreditation such as CDCMP CDCTP • Excel, Corrigo, Microsoft office • HV/LV Authorised Person status or a clear route to achieving it. • Building automation and monitoring system experience/training • Proven experience managing engineering teams in critical environments
(banking, data centres, trading floors, telecoms, or similar). • Strong technical knowledge of electrical and mechanical critical
systems, including UPS, generators, HV/LV distribution, cooling systems, BMS and life safety.
• Calm, decisive and structured under pressure. • Strong leadership presence with excellent team-building ability. • Customer-focused with a drive for service excellence & exceptional
customer experience. • Analytical and data-driven, with a mindset of continuous improvement.
Catch 22 are working with a growing Facilities Management service provider delivering hard and soft FM solutions across a diverse client base.
Due to continued growth, they are seeking an FM Commercial Coordinator with proven experience working on the service provider side, supporting the commercial delivery of maintenance and remedial works.
This role is suited to candidates who have worked within an FM service provider or contractor environment. You must have hands-on experience managing the commercial lifecycle of FM jobs, including quoting, costing, and delivery.