Maintenance Assist

• Full time
• 36 hours per week
• Monday-Thursday - 07:30am - 15:30pm
• Friday - 07:30am - 13:30pm
• £14.71per hour
• Free Parking
• Breakfast and lunch included
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Maintenance Assist

Prestwick - Full time

Operational excellence begins with you.

At Sodexo, we’re passionate about our people. We know that our teams are the key to delivering exceptional service and creating quality experiences for our clients, customers, and employees. Build a name with big-name businesses.

As a Maintenance Assist with Sodexo, you'll enhance the services of our vibrant corporate site, offering a helping hand to ensure flawless facilities operations and keep things running smoothly.

What you'll do

• Support the safe operation, maintenance and repair of M&E building services, plant and fabric equipment across the site.
• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance within your level of technical competence, with approximately 50% of the role being hands-on maintenance work.
• Provide technical support and guidance to the wider maintenance team, helping to resolve faults and operational issues.
• Coordinate directly employed labour and subcontractors to ensure Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) activities are completed effectively and on time.
• Help achieve and maintain 100% compliance across all statutory PPM activities.
• Support the delivery of reactive maintenance services both during normal operating hours and, where required, outside of normal site hours.
• Ensure work requests, permits and associated maintenance documentation are completed accurately and appropriately.
• Monitor plant and equipment performance, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency and overall performance.
• Support the development and implementation of systems that help keep plant operating at optimum efficiency.
• Participate in energy-saving initiatives and promote the efficient use of energy across the site.
• Monitor the performance of subcontractors and ensure work is completed safely and to the required standards.
• Work alongside the SHEQ team to support the review and maintenance of Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work.
• Maintain accurate maintenance, Health & Safety and contract performance records.
• Build positive working relationships with the client, colleagues, contractors and other site stakeholders.
• Promote a strong safety culture by reporting accidents, hazards, near misses and safety observations.
• Continually look for opportunities to improve maintenance processes and service delivery.

What you'll bring

• Ideally, a minimum of 5 years' experience within building services and plant engineering, including experience as a maintenance craftsperson.
• Strong practical, hands-on maintenance and engineering experience.
• Experience of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance within a commercial or industrial environment.
• Technical knowledge or experience across areas such as LV, mechanical services, confined spaces, boiler and pressure systems and Legionella would be advantageous.
• A good understanding of Health & Safety legislation and safe working practices.
• Experience working with Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Work and Permit to Work procedures.
• The confidence to provide technical support and guidance to colleagues when required.
• Experience working with and coordinating subcontractors.
• Strong fault-finding, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good numerical and IT skills, with the ability to complete accurate reports and maintenance documentation.
• A proactive and resourceful approach with the ability to work under pressure and manage changing priorities.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team while also using your own initiative.
• Flexibility to support maintenance requirements outside normal operating hours when required.
• A willingness to undertake additional training and development relevant to the role.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

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Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications