Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Location: UK-West Yorkshire-Wakefield
Overview:
Maintenance Technician – Aurora Ivy Lane School
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Contract: permanent, 40 hours per week, year-round contract including work in school holidays. Part time considered for the right candidate.
Salary: £12.15 - £13.14 per hour (£25,272 - £27,331 per annum)
Closing Date: Thursday 23rd May
Aurora Ivy Lane School
Aurora Ivy Lane School is a 'Good' (Ofsted, October 2023) rated innovative provider of specialist education, supporting young people aged 11 - 19 with complex needs including autism, moderate and severe learning disabilities; speech, language, communication and interaction needs and behaviours that can challenge.
The main purpose of the role:
To support our growth, we are looking to recruit a skilled and experienced Maintenance Technician to join our Support Services team.
The Support Services team is an essential pillar in enabling our students to achieve their full potential.
The role requires emphasis on Health & Safety relevant to the premises ensuring that the building and grounds are continually fit for purpose for students and staff to enable them to fulfil their roles.
This job involves various duties to help the School Business Manager keep the property in good order, carrying out general maintenance, repairs to the building, and planned maintenance. This will require a high level of attention to detail to promote the character of the building.
Key Duties
- Carry out repairs and maintenance to a high standard in a proactive approach.
- Conduct regular inspections and ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of all areas of the school.
- Keep a record of all the day-to-day maintenance and service activities undertaken
- Comply with all corporate policies regarding Health and Safety whilst carrying out maintenance functions.
- Report defects, damages and malfunctions to the School Business Manager
- Ensure the effective completion of all tasks.
- Play a full part in building good relationships with other staff, students and stakeholders.
- Carry out regular planned maintenance inspection on services, utilities and the building fabric throughout the school report findings and take necessary actions.
- Ensure that all emergencies are dealt with speedily and effectively
For the full job description, please contact Kirsty from the recruitment team
Responsibilities:
Successful Candidate Qualities
- General maintenance knowledge preferably with a construction trade.
- Knowledge of current Health & Safety regulations
- Understanding of hot & cold water systems
- Knowledge of good working trade practices.
- Knowledge of required safety checks fire/water/asbestos/general required within a college/school environment
- Experience of managing people
- Ability to identify work priorities and manage workloads
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills