We are currently working with a National Student Accommodation provider looking to appoint a Facilities Team Leader to support with the upkeep and running of their Facilities in Birmingham.

Ideal Facilities Team Leaders will have previous relevant experience in building maintenance specifically within a Residential/ Student Accommodation environment. Having basic joinery, plumbing and plastering skills would also be beneficial. As the role is mobile covering several sites, successful applicants must hold a full driving license.

 Core responsibilities for Facilities Team Leader include:

• Support the Facilities Manager to build and develop a motivated, engaged, and high-performance team
• Take accountability for your team’s performance, actively participating in performance management conversations and personal development plans
• Provide general maintenance assistance throughout our student properties, such as taking deliveries, moving furniture, and maintaining the grounds
• Solve all sorts of basic maintenance issues with a can-do attitude - this could involve fixing doors, painting walls, cleaning the courtyard, or changing light bulbs
• Conduct regular building checks to make sure that our buildings are clean, safe, and secure

Benefits of the role:

• Salary upto £34,727

• A discretionary annual bonus
• 33 days` paid holiday, inclusive of bank holidays and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

Full-Time hours, 5 days out of 7, between 8 am and 8 pm. Weekend work will be required on a rota basis.

Our client are a market-leading business from within the student accommodation sector who are looking for an experienced Building Technician to join their facilities team in London.

Working as part of a team, the successful applicant will be accountable for providing a well maintained, safe, secure, clean, compliant and efficient environment, delivering high quality planned and reactive maintenance.

Role Responsibilities:

• Undertaking general maintenance work within properties inc; window and door repairs, fire alarm activations & false alarms, reactive maintenance support, fault finding and rectifying, PPM planned inspections,  support with PPM activities, rectifying or reporting any remedial work and any Health & Safety related calls).
• Accountable for responsiveness and taking appropriate action on receipt of student feedback and any other maintenance requests from across the business.
• Accountable for maintaining a safe environment for everyone, the completion and recording of basic monitoring and compliance where trained to do so.
• Accountable for keeping a clean, tidy and well maintained environment.
• Logging of maintenance issues and follow up accordingly.
• Oversee specialist contractors/trades people onsite
• Responding to call outs when acting as on call operative based on the rota

The ideal candidate will be an experienced/ hands on maintenance assistant with experience of working on large sites. You will demonstrate strong communication skills, have good H&S knowledge and be happy to travel between sites in a busy role. Due to the nature of he role you must hold a full UK Driving license and you will need to go through an enhanced DBS check as part of the onboarding process. 

Role Package:

• 37.5hours per week
• Pay between £28,958 - £35,039  
• Regular shifts working between 08:00 and 20:00 (Some weekend work will be required and the successful applicant will be on the on call rota but will be given an on call standby allowance)
• Generous Benefits Package