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Caretaker
November 12, 2021 | Comments Off on Caretaker
Caretaker
Location: Mobile across Staffordshire - Covering Stoke & Staffordshire Fire Stations
Business Area: Facilities Management - Stoke & Staffs Fire and Rescue Authority
Contract: Permanent, full time - 40 hours per week + out of hours standby & callout
Salary: £20,000 per annum + van
Facilities Management, where people come first.
The Kier Facilities Management team offers an incredibly wide range of innovative management and maintenance solutions, right across the UK - from the RAF Duxford base that welcomes over 20,000 visitors a year, to local fire stations that help protect millions of people. We're a crucial part of Kier Places, providing hard and soft facilities management to hundreds of Government department sites and public buildings - offering you a role that will challenge and reward you, every single day.
Kier Places are recruiting now for a Caretaker to join our team on our Stoke & Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Authority contract in order to maintain effective PFI service delivery to our client across the portfolio of sites in the Staffordshire area.
Key Responsibilities
In this important Caretaker role, your day to day activities will include carrying emergency cleaning as required, adjustments and maintenance, responsible for locking and unlocking of grounds, managing the site security and carrying out fire and safety precaution across multiple sites.
The role will include general building maintenance duties to ensure the site meets the required standard such as: low level lamp changing, minor joinery repairs, minor plumbing repairs, grounds maintenance such as litter picking/snow clearing/gritting, portering duties, and other tasks relative to the skill level of the role.
What do we need from you?
Ideally, you'll have previous experience within a Caretaker or Maintenance role with a strong emphasis on delivering effective customer service. You'll engage in a positive manner and able to conduct any heavy lifting involved in line with the manual safety handling training, and also be able to produce paperwork and information to be used for reporting.
Due to the nature of this position, you should have a full UK driving licence, be happy travelling across the county to different sites, and be able to participate in the on-call rota system covering out of hours and weekends.
What will you receive?
You can expect a strong benefits package that includes: free life assurance, access to our valuable pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement and many more! To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, click here.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy. Join Kier today as a Caretaker.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case by case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us).
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Closing Date: 11th December 2021
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment Agencies - opportunities at Kier are managed by our internal recruitment team. We are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. If there is a specific business need a member of the recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL to ensure all CV's are uploaded onto our portal to be considered. For further information, visit our Careers Help page.