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Senior Maintenance Operative

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Job Introduction

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Maintenance Operative to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression.

Role Responsibility

  • Provide technical and professional support to the Maintenance team and to the Client in order to develop a “team” approach.
  • Manage employees within a service environment and maximise the performance of your team.
  • Undertake training and appointment as an AP in appropriate disciplines when necessary
  • Authorise Competent Persons.
  • Undertake the collection and provision of data related to all estate maintenance operations.
  • Reviewing ongoing performance levels from data/reports produced by Global Maximo system. Initiating appropriate actions to ensure agreed performance standards are maintained including if necessary producing and implementing service improvement plans.
  • Maintain formal and informal communications with Client staff members related to service levels and issues
  • Remain flexible with the ability to work under pressure whilst looking for continual improvements to service delivery.
  • Fully aware of relevant Health and Safety and general legislative matters..
  • Responsibility  for ensuring compliance with all relevant Health and Safety legislation and site specific health, safety and welfare policies.
  • You must ensure that you do not act in any way that endangers your health and safety or that of others. Failure to comply with the requirements of this clause may result in disciplinary action being taken against you, which may include your dismissal or notice.
  • All accidents and unsafe situations must be reported immediately and accidents recorded in the Accident Book.
  • If we give you safety equipment, protective clothing or footwear you must use it. Clothing and overalls must be kept clean.
  • You must attend health and safety training as instructed by your manager to ensure that risks in the workplace are reduced.
 

The Ideal Candidate

  • HND or NVQ or equivalent in a relevant subject
  • Preferably 10 years (minimum of 5 years) experience in building services and plant engineering, five years as a maintenance craftsman preferably within an engineering role.
  • Previous appointment as Authorised Person for one or more of the following disciplines, LV, Mechanical Services, Confined Spaces, Boiler and Pressure Systems.
  • Experience of Construction Design Management Regulations (CDM).
  • Excellent communications both written and verbal.
  • Numerate and computer literate.
 

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

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