Trainee Maintenance Officer
Job introduction
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About the role
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) are looking for a confident and proactive person to join the Property Services team as a Trainee Maintenance Officer.
This role will cover WNC’s corporate properties including One Angel Square, Guildhall and County Hall.
You will need to be enthusiastic, people focused and happy to work on your own initiative with an ability to multitask and prioritise effectively. Working within a close knit team of 5, you will learn the skills to assist in delivering a programme of maintenance and repairs at West Northamptonshire Council’s corporate buildings, including reactive, compliance and pre-planned work such as small decorating jobs, building checks, changing taps, unblocking toilets and maintenance tasks that support keeping WNC corporate buildings safe, warm, and dry.
A full clean driving licence is desirable.
Main responsibilities/duties include:
- To assist the Maintenance Team in undertaking building checks, repairs, and cleaning at WNC corporate buildings to ensure they are fit for purpose for Customers and a diverse workforce.
- To assist the Maintenance Team with general maintenance to heating, lighting, drainage, and mechanical systems to ensure that the buildings remain safe, warm, and dry.
- To undertake small decorating jobs such as painting, putting up shelves, flooring, and tiling to ensure a pleasant working environment for staff and for visitors.
- To assist with preparing the function rooms within corporate buildings for meetings and events to ensure that they are to the requirement of service users and external clients.
- To undertake the movement of office furniture in accordance with manual handling procedures.
- To escort contractors to appropriate areas and ensure that works are carried out correctly and signed of by an appropriate member of staff.
- To assist with setting up barriers and staging equipment correctly and safely.
- To be able to work proactively and reactively due to the constant changing demands of the job
Company information
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what its like to work at West Northants Council.
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
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Salary range
- £26,083 - £26,495 per year