Building and Estates Maintenance Support (fixed term for one year) – Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) is seeking proactive Estates and Building Support Maintenance team to join our Team in maintaining and improving our estate.
We have a reputation for excellence and we invest in our employees’ development and wellbeing. The flexible working hours allow our employees to achieve a good work life balance

About you:
If you are a highly motivated and focused individual with a practical approach to minor building, plumbing, carpentry tasks and building refurbishment works to a high standard we would be keen to hear from you.
As part of the role you will be responsible for providing both a reactive repair and assisting with our EDI and Contaminants projects across the service in order to give improved facilities across the estate. This is a great opportunity to work for a public service provider who engages their team within a diverse and inclusive environment.
Reporting to the Facilities Manager, this is predominately an internal facing role which involves liaising with internal stakeholders and third-party contractors. The successful candidate will be inspired to demonstrate and promote behaviours in line with the Job Profile and our Behaviour Competency Framework as attached.

The key focus of this role is:
• Support the Estates Department in maintaining and improving the RBFRS estate by carrying out minor repairs, project works and maintenance work.
• Completing minor building, plumbing, carpentry, decorating and other associated tasks in maintaining the RBFRS estate to a high standard.
• Maintaining accurate records of work for all defects work undertaken.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders and third party contractors to complete relevant repairs and maintenance activities that are determined out of scope of skill set.
• Investigate reported defects to determine the appropriate action to complete repairs on a daily basis and planning corrective action.

Key role requirements (knowledge, skills and experience):

• Full UK Driving License.
• Good understanding of general building maintenance such as decorating, plumbing, carpentry and basic repairs to fixed assets.
• Ability to make decisions within own area of responsibility, demonstrating strategic thinking skills and to effectively cope with conflicting and complex building repairs.
• Excellent self-management, with good planning and organisational skills to work on own initiative.
• Ability to analyse and identify possible causes of problems and implement solutions to minimise future occurrence.

Application and selection process

The successful candidate will demonstrate and promote behaviours in line with the Job Profile/Person Specification and our Behaviour Competency Framework.

Closing date for applications is 09:00 hours Friday 2 August 2024

It is anticipated that the interview/assessment process will run week commencing 12 August 2024