
maintenance assistant
Randstad
birmingham, west midlands
•5 hours ago
•No application
About
Grounds & Fabric Maintenance Assistant
Location: Birmingham B66
Role Type: Essential Site Maintenance (Grounds, Gardens, & Fabric)
Salary/Rate: £18.25 an hour
We are seeking a proactive and skilled individual to help maintain the facility's extensive grounds, gardens, and building fabric, ensuring a compliant and safe environment for healthcare delivery.
The Role & Responsibilities:
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary hard services team, reporting to the Assistant Technical Services Manager, with duties split between proactive maintenance, reactive call-outs, and general site upkeep.
Grounds & Fabric Maintenance: Carry out routine maintenance, repairs, and inspections of the hospital grounds (gardens, civil areas) and building fabric services.
Reactive & PPM: Assist the team by responding to reactive maintenance requests and executing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) workstreams.
General Repair Work: Undertake minor upgrading, adaptation works, and general building repairs.
Compliance & Safety: Ensure adherence to all safety, legislative, and infection control procedures, including using the correct PPE and operating access equipment and tools safely.
Adverse Weather Response: Respond safely to adverse weather conditions, including gritting and snow clearing.
Flexibility & On-Call: Must be available to participate in the 'on-call' rota and potentially adjust working hours to cover shifts, sickness, and essential weekend work.
Teamwork: Liaise professionally with hospital wards and departments, minimizing disruption during work.
Required Skills & Experience:
Essential: Previous experience working within a maintenance environment.
Essential: Strong practical skills and knowledge in civil, grounds & gardens maintenance, and building maintenance/repairs.
Essential: Experience using and maintaining a large variety of gardening, building, and maintenance tools and light machinery.
Desirable: Prior experience working in a healthcare maintenance environment is a bonus.
Attributes: Friendly, diligent, excellent timekeeping, and ability to work flexibly and take initiative.
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.