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Facilities Maintenance Engineer/Site Caretaker
Location: Plymouth
Shift : Days - Monday to Friday (some occasional weekend working)
Salary: Up to £36,000 (DOE)
This company is seeking an experienced Facilities Maintenance Engineer to maintain the factory and site services to the appropriate standards, ensuring compliance with all audits. As a Facilities Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for driving maintenance and improvements in across the site. You will be completing planned maintenance tasks such as basic plumbing, general repairs, painting and decorating and ideally some basic electrical remedial work. This is an exciting opportunity for a tradesman or caretaker ideally with facilities management experience looking for a secure days-based role.
Here's what you'll be doing:
Complete simple alterations to building fabric such as painting and decorating, plumbing/drainage systems and basic electrical work.
Drive maintenance and improvements in all site and external areas.
Respond to reactive site services issues.
Liaise with external contractors ensuring high standard of service.
Maintain lighting, fire extinguishers and carrying out water checks
Plan tasks and liaise with Engineering Manager and Stores to ensure that suitable materials are available.
Inspect areas and plan repairs and improvements.
The skills and experience you'll bring to the team:
Ideally level 3 qualified in a building trade or equivalent.
Should be competent in plumbing, carpentry, painting, basic electrical and building works.
Ability to work on own initiative.
Able to identify and resolve issues promptly.
18th edition desirable
Willingness to work weekends on occasions
And this is what you'll get in return:
Career development and training opportunities
Opportunity for overtime at an enhanced rate.
Exciting opportunity for a tradesman with facilities management experience.
Great place to work, with Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Care at the heart of everything we do.
Are you up to the challenge?
If you think you have the skills and experience, we are looking for, please apply with your CV and a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role.
Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.
*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.
