Facilities Assistant, Leeds

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Facilities Assistant Salary: £24,308 per annumClosing Date: About the Role

Join Our Team as a Facilities Assistant at Printworks Campus

Are you a proactive and reliable individual who takes pride in maintaining safe, clean, and well-functioning environments? We are looking for a dedicated Facilities Assistant to support the day-to-day operations of our college campus.

This is a key role ensuring that our students, staff, and visitors enjoy a high-quality learning and working environment. If you’re hands-on, approachable, and ready to make a real difference behind the scenes, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a full-time role of 37 hours per week, worked Monday to Friday on a rotational shift pattern, with coverage required between the hours of 6:00am and 10:00pm.

What You Will Do

• Litter Picking, cleaning external areas.
• Refilling photocopiers and distributing internal and external mail.
• Setting up of rooms, which include moving furniture for teaching and exam requests.
• Assisting the Facilities Supervisor with weekly compliance checks.
• Unlocking and Locking up of the premises including setting of the Intruder Alarm.
• Assist the site team and provide support with the Emergency Evacuation Procedures such as Fire Alarm Activations and any other emergency.
• Support the Facilities Supervisor with on-site contractors and visitors, ensuring an understanding of the College guidelines and procedures.
• Minor repairs.

About You

• Previous experience in a customer service role, with responsibilities that included opening and securing buildings, as well as general building security.
• You should have excellent communication skills, work well as part of a team, and remain focused on tasks to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• A GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths is required
• Above all, you should be committed to providing outstanding customer service to students, staff, and all other users of the campus.

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Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

Luminate Education Group consists of;
Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.SAFEGUARDING At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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