Senior Facilities Officer

We are now seeking a Senior Facilities Officer to assist the Facilities Management Team to maintain an attractive, safe, clean, and welcoming College as well as a calm purposeful learning environment.

You'll be the single point of contact for all requests for repairs, faults, and other maintenance requests from staff, ensuring that all faults are logged on the College helpdesk system. Along with the site services team you will assist in providing first line response to repairs requests covering non-plant equipment, fabric, plumbing, carpentry, decorative repairs, porterage duties and maintain key inventories and stock. You'll be undertaking weekly inspections of the roofs, gutters, basements and the fabric maintenance of the building and to report defects to the Facilities Manager., The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 27 days plus up to 8 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees' physical and mental health. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

As part of our due diligence checks on prospective employees, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

As outlined in the Public Sector Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2010, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London's largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students' success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to achieve and progress.

We'd like you to be experienced in working with and overseeing contractors and be able to work under pressure to strict deadlines. You'll have working knowledge of Health & Safety regulations and procedures and be able to identify and implement improvements in existing procedures and systems.

We're looking for someone who has experience within the facilities industry and can work alongside and deputise for the Facilities Manager as and when required.