Rydon
Lead Maintenance Operative
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Lead Maintenance Operative with Electrical Bias
We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Lead Maintenance Operative with an electrical bias to join our highly regarded repairs and maintenance team in Essex. This position will provide you with the opportunity to take on some supervisory duties, whilst still maintaining an active role within your trade. This is a mobile role where you will be maintaining 4 healthcare sites in Walthamstow, Ilford and Hainault.
About Rydon Maintenance
Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare and housing association sectors. We currently provide maintenance services to over 300 buildings for 20 Trusts across the UK.
Please do take a look at our careers video and one of our operational videos to find out more about working at Rydon.
Role Overview
As Lead Maintenance Operative / Site Supervisor you will be split 50/50 between hands-on and supervising the sites. There are 4 sites in total located in Ilford, Walthamstow and Hainault in Essex/East London.
Key Responsibilities
- Performing daily maintenance duties as part of our PPM (planned and preventative) and reactive maintenance programme.
- Work will be across a variety of trades but will be tailored to skill set and will involve electrical/mechanical repairs, isolation/make safe, plumbing through to other building fabric maintenance.
- Arranging planned maintenance visits and site inductions with Subcontractors.
- Ensuring health and safety compliance.
- Maintaining site documentation and that records are up to date.
- Carrying out inspections to ensure works are carried out satisfactorily.
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Requirements
The ideal candidate will come from a multi-skilled electrical background. You will either be in a supervisor role or an experienced maintenance operative looking to develop.
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- A company van, fuel card and uniform.
- Holiday Entitlement: 33 days per annum (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Holiday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to an additional 5 days holiday
- On call standby allowance and overtime paid per call out.
- Pension Scheme: 4% contributory.
- Health Cash Plan: helping you spread the cost of essential healthcare
- 24/7 EAP Service: free advice, counselling and support for you and your family whenever you need it.
- Wellbeing and mental health champions readily available at work.
- Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
- Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.
- Employee Referral Scheme: recommend a personal connection to us and claim a cash reward for their successful hire. Free Flu Vaccinations
- Full training, ongoing coaching and support
- Opportunities to progress your career across the business
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Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent position. Normal working hours are 8am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on-call rota for emergency repairs where you will receive a standby allowance and overtime paid per call out.
Required Experience
- Previous experience of working within an electrical or multi-skilled role.
- Understanding of Microsoft packages such as Outlook.
- Strong people skills.
- Great attention to detail.
Additional Requirements
- A full UK driving licence is required as a company van is provided.
If you have this experience, we would strongly encourage you to apply.
Equal Opportunities
Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.
Application Process
To apply online, please use the 'apply for this job link' at the top of this page. Our application process is very straightforward allowing you to apply with a CV (from your Computer or Dropbox), LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ and should take no more than a few short minutes.
For more details on our culture and what it’s like to work at Rydon, please click here.
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