Facilities Support Assistant

Facilities & Fleet Support Assistant | Circa £26,500 + excellent benefits | Permanent | On-site

Would you like to work for a company that makes a real difference in the automotive industry? Do you have hands‑on maintenance or facilities experience? We’re looking for a pro‑active team player to provide support and assistance to both the facilities and fleet teams, this is a varied role based at our Thatcham, Berkshire site.

The Facilities Department are an efficient and helpful team, who like to carry out general cleaning and building repairs themselves. You’ll support with these activities so, practical experience of general DIY tasks such as painting and decorating, would be highly beneficial, as would prior cleaning experience (building spaces or vehicles).

The Fleet Department are an organised team who do a great job of supporting our research, training and operational car fleet. You’ll support the team with the cleaning and moving of vehicles around the site, so a UK driving license, along with good attention to detail will be required. This is an interesting position that offers a diverse range of responsibilities and tasks across a unique purpose‑driven business.

• Review, respond and react appropriately to facilities support requests via the helpdesk system

• Carry out generalrepair/maintenance duties e.g. decoration, picture hanging, furniture moving

• Collect refuse from all sites to ensure a clean and pleasant working environment, including offices, recycling and workshop areas

• Support operations with security activities; locking up, unlocking site

• Cleaning and maintenance of vehicles and sites, including workshops and offices to a high standard

• Support with ad‑hoc driving and vehicle movements

• Previous experience in facilities support / maintenance and cleaning

• Experienced in the safe use of power tools and equipment.

• Practical experience of painting and decorating

• Comfortable driving and manoeuvring vehicles, with a valid UK driving licence (essential)

• Knowledge of workplace Health & Safety regulations and procedures

• Basic IT skills, previous experience using a helpdesk system would be highly advantageous but not essential

You’ll have experience in a similar role with the ability to work well using your own initiative and successfully prioritise your workload. You are a proactive, team player who enjoys manual work. You pride yourself on your reliability and feel at ease when communicating with people from all areas of the business. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Research tells us that men are more likely to apply to jobs if they meet only 60% of the criteria, whereas women often hesitate or don’t apply unless they meet all of the criteria. This difference in application behaviour can contribute to the gender gap in career advancement and opportunities.

We know the perfect candidate doesn’t exist! If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every box, we’d still encourage you to apply - it could be a perfect fit!

Salary - Circa £26,500 negotiable dependent on skills & experience.

• 10% non‑contributory pension

• 29 days holiday (inclusive of Christmas shutdown) + public holidays

• Group Life Assurance (equal to 4 x basic salary)

• Group Income Protection (after 6 months’ service)

• Salary Sacrifice schemes (cycle to work, home & tech scheme)

• Enhanced and competitive parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender or family structure

• Money health’s Financial Coaching & Wellbeing Platform

• Health Cash Plan (cash back on eligible medical treatments)

• Benenden Health Care (opt‑in benefit)

• Reward & Recognition Programme

• Discounted gym membership

• Sports & Social club

• Payroll charitable giving

• Subsidised on-site restaurant

• Free on-site parking

Based on‑site in Thatcham, this role operates on a 2‑week alternating shift rota, Monday to Friday:

• Week 1: 06:30 – 14:30 (13:45 finish on Friday)

• Week 2: 09:30 – 17:30 (16:45 finish on Friday)

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