Job Description:

Job information Facilities Operative from the Company Onward Homes, this latest Facilities Operative job vacancy is located in the city Tameside SK located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Facilities field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Facilities Operative

Full Time Salary£23,200 Employment Type Full time Hours Per Week 35 Region Greater Manchester Location Birch Lea Park, Kingston Close, Tameside Sk14 3JW Contract Type Permanent Job Type Support Services DBS Level DBS Enhanced with barring lists Closing Date 26/03/2025 Ref No 2375

What you can expect from us

• We offer a competitive salary of £23,200 per annum ( rising to £23,800 from April 2025) plus a weekend allowance of £2350 per year.
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
• Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life' scheme.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
• Onward Home has a number of colleagues forums to drive positive change and culture including our Colleague Forum, D&I and BAME Network.

About the role

Onward Homes are now recruiting for Facilities Operatives for our new brand new Birch Lea Park Housing with Care development at the heart of Hattersley in Tameside. The site features 91 modern apartments alongside a range of helpful on-site services, including tailored care packages for those who need them.

Purpose of role: To deliver a high-quality caretaking and building maintenance service, resulting in a consistently safe and high-quality environment, which creates positive spaces for extra care housing customers.

Successful candidates will be requited to work 5 days out of 7 including one day per weekend (alternating Saturdays and Sundays) with a day off in the week.

Job Responsibilities

Health & Safety Compliance

• Undertaking weekly fire alarm checks and administration of log books. Supporting the scheme manager with weekly compliance checks.
• Support with winter tasks including help with preparations for snow and icy conditions as appropriate.
• Work to the highest standards of health and safety and assist with the promotion of a positive safety first culture.
• Support the Scheme Manager to ensure that the building is compliant with legislation.

Building Management

• Supporting the Building Safety Manager and Scheme Manager in the day to day maintenance of the scheme including reporting repairs and H&S concerns, reducing H&S risks and ensuring building security is maintained.
• Undertake removal of litter / fly tipping, and graffiti cleansing and supporting the cleaners as required.
• Granting access for contractors and supporting with compliance work.
• Refuse and Bin Store management
• Providing adhoc services to other schemes/properties as required

Repairs & Handyperson tasks

• Complete all low level repairs including; blocked sinks, toiler seat replacement, lock changes, replacing washers on taps, and changing lightbulbs.
• Monitoring individual and communal repairs.
• Supporting new customers with moving into the scheme by assisting with adhoc jobs e.g. curtain rails, hanging curtains, changing light bulbs etc.

Customer Service

• Act in a professional and customer focused manner while upholding Onward values, aims and objectives.

Records

• Ensure all works reporting and safety procedures are followed and record keeping is both accurate and professional.

Skills, knowledge and experience

Essential:

• Previous experience in a similar role, dealing with handy person repairs.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, colleagues and external organisations.
• Understanding of Health and Safety responsibilities.
• Experience of using power tools safely
• The ability to follow procedures and provide performance data of operations.

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE maths and English (or equivalent)

Desirable:

• IOSHH
• COSHH

This role will be subject to the candidate having an DBS Enhanced (Adults) clearance.

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

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Keywords : Tameside jobs

Closed Date : 2025-04-12