Senior Maintenance Officer - Plymouth

About The Role
Thinking Facilitiesis seeking to appoint a SeniorMaintenanceOfficerto assist the Site Manager with overseeing the day-to-day tasks across the Trust Schools.
The successful post-holder will manage the utilisation of school premises, ensuring that they are safe, secure and well-maintained. This will involve management of Health and Safety procedures, management of cleaning, overseeing maintenance programmes and ensuring that budgets are monitored accordingly.
You will line manage Facilities Officers and/or the cleaning team whilst supporting the Site Manager on capital projects and developments.
Core hours: 07.00am - 15.00pm with flexibility required for operational reasons
What you will need to succeed:
For further details please see the attached Job description
Previous experience as a caretaker or similar
Practical skills in maintenance and cleaning
Experience of managing Health & Safety
Experience of working within an Academy/School is desirable.
A good working knowledge of Microsoft office.
Full clean driving licence with access to own transport
About Us
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust is a family of schools consisting of both primary and secondary schools across Kent, Hampshire and Plymouth.
We believe that every young person in our community deserves to have the best opportunities at life regardless of their individual circumstances.
Education is the key to transforming life chances and we support and develop every member of our community to:
Think about their Thinking
Be their Best self
Shape their Success
In this way we transform life chances
What our Trust will offer you:
The opportunity to join a growing organisation during an extremely exciting time
A pro-rata annual leave entitlement of 27 days, increasing to 31 after 5 years of service
An excellent Local Government pension scheme
As a Trust we aim to foster a culture of appreciation with our fantastic Colleague recognition scheme
Health and Wellbeing benefits including access to Thinking You - A 24/7 employee assistance programme for legal, financial, emergency health or lifestyle support
Support staff have access to 'Discount for Teachers' with a huge range of money saving deals and vouchers
A 'Refer a Friend' incentive scheme
Next steps:
If you are interested in working for our Trust in our Facilities Team, benefitting from a supportive network of colleagues across our Trust, and are keen to progress your career then please apply today!
Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found.
To arrange an informal telephone conversation please contact Tessa Irvine:#####
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. As per KCSIE we will also undertake online searches for all shortlisted candidates, if you have any questions regarding this process please #####
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