Facilities Technician Supervisor
Job in
City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Area, EH1, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2026-01-15
Listing for:
The City of Edinburgh Council
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-15
Job specializations:
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Building Maintenance, Facility Maintenance
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Facilities Technician Supervisor
James Gillespie's High School
Salary: £29,173 - £33,287
Hours:
36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, Monday to Friday
- Supervise the day‑to‑day activities of Facilities Technicians, including the co‑ordination and allocation of work duties, apportioning workloads and rotas as agreed with the Locality Hub Team Leader and in the event of sickness or absence to provide appropriate cover; induct.
- Train, supervise and carry out personal development plans, performance reviews and return‑to‑work interviews.
- Ensure services are provided in accordance with appropriate management systems and carry out monitoring inspections to ensure the standard of repairs and other tasks undertaken by incredibly direct reports comply with agreed standards.
- Relevant to the role, ensure that equipment and machines are maintained and serviced by contractors in line with manufacturer's recommendations.
- Equipment, furniture and fitting maintenance.
- Ensure equipment and furniture maintenance services are delivered to standard, undertaking minor maintenance and repairs to equipment in accordance with good practice and procedures or checking repairs carried out by Facilities Technicians.
- Undertaking general porterage duties, including moving furniture for the setting up of rooms and halls for events, performances, exams, meetings.
- Monitoring and recording all FF&E including the condition of repair of equipment and fixed furniture items as well as reporting serious faults to the Helpdesk and relevant personnel.
- The list of above duties is not exhaustive, and the post‑holder will undertake any other duties arising and reasonably pertaining to the post.
- Building maintenance and services.
- Ensuring the prescribed procedures in the event of or to prevent fire, flooding, accidents or damage are followed.
- Undertake or arrange for small work requests and day‑to‑day minor maintenance and repairs in accordance with best practice and building maintenance procedures. This can include maintenance of wooden floor surfaces, tasks of a DIY nature, removal of, or painting over, graffiti, hanging of blinds,.Generate and coordinate routine maintenance of doors, windows, woodwork/page classes, and/or check/assist with repair tasks.
- Ensure that all jobs and tasks, including emergency callouts, comply with Council policies and procedures and ensure effective management and monitoring of sub‑contractors visiting sites.
- Ensuring that required temperature levels are maintained throughout the premises in accordance with the Council's energy conservation arrangements.
- Monitoring the condition of heating plant, notifying the appropriate staff member of the need to effect repairs and undertaking routine maintenance. At some locations, cleaning associated convector systems in accordance with established procedures."כ.
- Periodically checking the lighting system throughout the building ensuring that internal and external suplementally areas are adequately lit and replacing lighting materials and fuses where possible in accordance with established guidelines, e.g. Electricity at Work Regulations. Making sure that all unnecessary lighting is extinguished when the building is closed.
- Liaising with outside contractors and service partners ensuring that the Team Leader is informed of all work being undertaken and chasing up of work and signing of necessary work orders in consultation with line management when required.
- Where the establishment has a swimming pool, undertake tests and maintenance in accordance with relevant guidance.
- Security and safety of premises and grounds.
- Locking and unlocking of buildings and setting/un‑setting security systems at prescribed times securing the building at the close of their shift (e.g. walk‑round, check doors/gates/windows are closed). This should not infer wider security tasks such as out of hours' emergency/ security incidents.
- Ensuring further that premises and grounds are secured always, changing locks and getting keys cut when required and by using appropriate closed‑circuit television (CCTV) equipment and radio communications devices.
- In accordance with established…
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