Handy Person (General Maintenance Operative)

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a General Maintenance Operative to join our Facilities Management (FM) team at HMP Peterborough.

As a General Maintenance Operative,  you will work within a multi-disciplined team undertaking a number of maintenance duties including carrying out repairs and preventative maintenance on all assets and fixings, organising cell moves and cleans and attending call outs when required. 

HMP/YOI Peterborough is the country’s only purpose-built prison for both male and female prisoners (kept separate at all times), including a 12-place mother and baby unit. We are committed to offering education and development programmes to provide residents with the skills required to enter employment on release, so reducing the chances of further offending. Providing creative outlets, such as workshop activities, helps to equip those in custody for when they are released. We use ‘Restorative Approaches’ to bring people in conflict into dialogue. Using a skilled and structured process, those who have been harmed have an opportunity to be heard and those that have caused the harm are held to account for what they have done. We have strong links with the community outside through a variety of partnerships, including our outreach activity Outside Links’ offering support and advice to both residents and their families.

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Role Responsibility

• Carry out repairs and preventative maintenance on all assets and fixings where suitably trained within the establishment
• Escort specialist contractors and work beside them when required
• Support the health and safety culture
• Support the on-call rota when experienced 
• Working 5 days in 7 (including occasional weekends)
• To participate in mandatory/refresher training as required and to be continually developing
• Maintain maintenance records
• Preform schedule maintenance servicing
• To operate within a call out system as directed by the maintenance manager
• To carry out tool checks and maintain security of all maintenance tools as required by the LSS
• To undertake project work as directed by the maintenance manager
• To carry out any other reasonable task as deemed necessary by the maintenance manager

The Ideal Candidate

• Competent and certificated in the operation of hydraulic work platform
• To abide by the Company Policy and all appropriate Regulations and Safety Policies.
• Has knowledge of the following acts:
  • Health & Safety at Work Act.1974
  • Manual Handling Operations Regulations. 1992
  • COSHH Regulations 1994

Package Description

Salary: £25,000 per annum (please note an 8% salary uplift has been proposed and is currently subject to approval. All new starters will be eligible for this uplift if successful.)

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week with the requirement to work on call on a rotational basis (this includes occasional weekends).

Sodexo offers the best range of employee benefits on the market. From discounts that reduce the cost of the weekly shop, to exclusive deals on holidays and keeping active. Our award-winning employee benefits platform offers everything YOU need to make life that little bit better every day.

• Free meals and parking on site
• Health and wellbeing incentives
• Training and development opportunities
• Reward and Recognition schemes
• Flexible working considered
• Volunteering days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications from candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

Post holders will be subjected a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence, and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory, and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their age, disability, gender, transgender, marital or family status, race or ethnicity, religious belief of sexual orientation are welcome to and included within our business. We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

Please note all roles within Sodexo Justice are subject to security and recruitment checks which may include a Social Media Check. You will also be asked to provide 5 years’ worth of references and request employment history details from the HMRC.