Senior Facilities Officer

Here at South Thames College, we are now looking for a Senior Facilities Officer to assist the Facilities Management Team to maintain an attractive, safe, clean, and welcoming College and a calm purposeful learning environment.

Working alongside contracted site services staff when required, you will be responsible for the provision of maintenance, repair, and occasional facilities related services for the site and cover for the Facilities Manager as required. You will be the single point of contact for all requests for repairs, faults, and other maintenance requests and provide first-line response to repair requests covering non-plant equipment, fabric, plumbing, carpentry, and decorative repairs.

As our Senior Facilities Officer, we would like you to hold a City & Guilds, NVQ or similar qualification in a relevant trade and have experience of the operation and day-to-day first line maintenance of buildings. Your experience will include painting and decorating as well as basic carpentry tasks and mean you are comfortable operating heating systems, security, and fire systems.

Able to work with and oversee contractors, you will have good working knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and procedures relevant to an educational establishment and work well as part of a team. You will consider yourself to be physically fit, able to carry out lifting and other physical maintenance tasks including working at height, and be happy working a shift pattern, covering call out duties on rota, all year round.

Closing date for the return of completed applications is 11th July 2022.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 23 days plus up to 7 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees physical and mental health. This leave is all in addition to Bank Holiday entitlement. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

South Thames Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.

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