Caretaker

We're looking for a Caretaker to join our Greenwich Care Homes team based in Greenwich.

Location: Greenwich Care Homes, Greenwich
Hours: 40 hours per week 

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Kier Places are recruiting now for a Caretaker to support the delivery of a soft and hard services facilities management service for our client. You'll be ensuring the continuous operational availability of the buildings across the contract, maintaining required specifications and standards.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Caretaker, you'll be working within the Greenwich Care Homes team, supporting them in delivering exceptional facilities management services. Your day to day will include:

• Carrying out initial review of reactive calls and daily inspections of the site, actioning maintenance defects generated from the helpdesk
• Completing all PPMs within your competency level and updating the PPM system as required
• Checking mechanical and electrical systems to ensure building services are functioning correctly and investigating any alarms
• General building reactive and planned maintenance duties including lamp changing, water flushing, fire alarm tests, and grounds maintenance
• Building strong relationships with clients and the Kier team, taking personal responsibility for the presentation of the building

What are we looking for?

This role of Caretaker is great for you if:

• You have a building maintenance background with experience conducting a variety of general maintenance tasks
• You hold a full driving licence
• You're collaborative and enjoy working closely with clients and colleagues to find practical solutions

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.