Caretaker

We're looking for a Mobile Caretaker to join our Meadowhead Secondary School team based in Sheffield.

Location: Meadowhead Secondary School, Sheffield
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

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

As a Mobile Caretaker, you'll be ensuring the delivery of Facilities Management services to Meadowhead Secondary School, maintaining our high-quality standards and creating a welcoming environment for students, staff, and visitors. This is a hands-on role where you'll be an essential part of keeping the school running smoothly day to day.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Mobile Caretaker, you'll be working within the Facilities Management team, supporting them in maintaining the school building and grounds to the highest standards. Your day to day will include:

• Carrying out remedial tasks and planned maintenance including fire alarm activation, water temperature checks, and building inspections
• Providing hosting services and room set-ups for meetings and events
• Monitoring subcontractors and liaising with the Facilities Coordinator on ongoing work
• Moving furniture and equipment, and completing ad-hoc jobs as required
• Providing holiday and sickness cover for caretaking and cleaning staff, with on-call duties 1 week in 3

What are we looking for?

This role of Mobile Caretaker is great for you if:

• You have previous experience in caretaking or handy person duties and enjoy practical, hands-on work
• You're physically fit to perform lifting and handling tasks following manual handling training
• You can communicate effectively and provide excellent customer service every time
• You're confident reading and processing instructions, and updating information systems

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.