Job Title: Caretaker - Premises Technician
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent, (Full Time/ Part Time/ Job Share/Flexible opportunities available)
Salary Range: up to £26,984.00 inclusive of Shift allowance
Location: Eastleigh
Closing Date for applications: Friday 14th June 2024
Please note if we receive the required number of applications prior to the closing date the advert may close early.
Generous holiday & company Benefits package Discretionary annual bonus based on personal and company performance.
Caretaker: An exciting opportunity has become available to join our Eastleigh based Facilities Department as a Caretaker. As a caretaker your key responsibilities will be to support and maintain the smooth running of the site whilst working as part of the facilities team. This role offers great opportunities for development and qualifications if desired.
Main Responsibilities as Caretaker:
- Working as part of a team delivering to a high standard in a busy office environment to maintained staff welfare.
- Carrying out weekly and monthly checks including Plant inspection, lighting checks, water hygiene & fire alarm call point tests.
- General building Repairs will be expected, including Leaking Taps, Light bulb/ballast changing, Carpet tiles, painting & adjusting door closers and hinges etc. The right person will be able to diagnose faults, provide first line repair or call-in relevant contractors.
- Office moves, meeting room and training room setups will be commonplace.
- Managing Contractors working on site: Able to understand the extent of work, manage their safe working practices with work permits & RAMS etc. Raise document worksheets and record for audit purposes.
- Emergency call out (1 week in 4)
Here are some of the key skills required to be successful in the Caretaker role:
- Skilled to carry out maintenance tasks over a wide spectrum including plumbing, carpentry, Basic electrical (depending on qualifications and experience) carpet laying, painting & decorating and specialist cleaning jobs
- Must be physically able to handle heavy furniture and equipment for which full manual handling training will be given.
- An appreciation of current Health and Safety law and regulation applicable to areas within their responsibility acquired through Safe Systems of Work (Permit to Work) and IOSH training.
- Fire Warden (Training to be provided)
- First Aid at Work (Training to be provided)
- Ideally Building Management (BMS) Software trained.
- PC Skills: Ability to use MS Office for Emails and Calendars, Excel, Word and Task & Asset planning software.
- Customer Excellence: The jobholder is required to deliver services to customers at all levels in the business and to interact with contractors and visitors. This will require tact and diplomacy and a pro-active & energised approach to meet a wide variety of requests.
- Results Orientation: Practiced time-management experience, analytical thinker.
- Communication Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Building relationships: To be supportive of other team members and foster good working relationships internally and externally. Demonstrates timely and open communication and is diplomatic when dealing
A full driving license is required
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Caretaker role based in Eastleigh.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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