Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Barrier Officer
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Job Overview
Purpose of the Role
You will ensure the safety and security of staff and customers within your working environment to ensure smooth and effective security enforcement at the site, securing the Service areas, back of house, and the site perimeter. Maintaining and enforcing Health and Safety Regulations for all contractors working on site, providing an out of hours service in support of the Help Desk and aiding visitors to the site.
Main Duties
- Care to be taken regarding personal appearance and hygiene at all times.
- To start shift promptly at time designated, in full uniform.
- To ensure active communication at changeover, self briefing to ensure awareness of any matters pertaining to the smooth effective running of the shift.
- To work as part of the Mitie team upholding their values and standards.
- To liaise with retailers over any security matters or concerns raised regarding contractor access to the site.
- To assist on site police in prevention and detection of crime.
- To prevent unauthorised personnel from entering Bluewater.
- To have a strategy overview of the Service Areas to assist in the following:
- A thorough check of all vulnerable points of the perimeter of the buildings, ensuring all barriers are secure and no risks are present.
- To maintain and monitor vehicle access and ingress in service areas and time constraints.
- To ensure Health and Safety points are adhered to at all times, challenging and reporting breaches.
- Checking for any suspicious activities, persons and vehicles.
- To conduct regular checks of areas listed within the Assignment Instructions.
- To prevent and detect any potential safety hazards with the barrier systems reporting any defects immediately and ensuring barriers are not impeded by any obstructions.
- To check for unauthorised personnel in business sensitive areas.
- To check and verify the identity and work permits of any contractors working in the building.
- Staff should be aware of suspect packages being deposited in and around the precinct of the building and should make themselves aware of the separate procedure to be adopted should such a devise be discovered.
- To monitor the booking in system of all out of hours sub-contractors.
- Conduct any other duties deemed to be appropriate or necessary to the post
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What we are looking for
- Must have SIA licence
- Skills & Good communication skills, both written and oral.
- Ability to operate in a pressurised environment.
- Excellent time management.
- Attention to detail and proactive.
- Demonstrable proactive and professional approach to security.
- Ability to work under own initiative and as a member of a team
- Experience in working within a team as well as on your own – essential
- Knowledge of health and safety legislation and policy
- Corporate experience preferred but not
- Previous experience within a similar role.
Benefits
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
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- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
About Us
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at.
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