Maintenance Operative – Leeds
Salary: £28,000
Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm
Vita Student offers next-level apartment designs with a variety of studios to suit our students' lifestyles, providing privacy or shared living. We emphasize style, luxury, and comfort, surrounded by premium amenities and vibrant city life. Our Maintenance Operatives play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of building facilities. This customer-facing role involves maintaining Vita Student’s high standards of building quality.
Responsibilities include:
* Responding promptly to maintenance requests from students and staff, addressing issues with plumbing, electrical systems, heating/cooling, lighting, furniture, and other equipment.
* Performing preventive and corrective maintenance on fire alarm and firefighting systems.
* Understanding plant room functions, diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing central systems.
* Conducting regular inspections to identify issues and performing scheduled maintenance (PPM).
* Carrying out general repairs such as fixing leaky plumbing, broken fixtures, malfunctioning appliances, damaged doors, and wall repairs.
* Performing basic carpentry and painting tasks, including replacing flooring, repairing furniture, and touch-up painting and decorating.
* Managing stock levels of maintenance supplies and parts.
* Ensuring safety compliance by adhering to all relevant regulations and procedures.
* Maintaining outdoor areas, including grass-cutting and hedge trimming.
* Collaborating with other departments like housekeeping, front desk, and management to coordinate maintenance and guest requests.
Candidate Profile:
Experience:
* Experience in fire alarm and firefighting system maintenance.
* Familiarity with plant room operations.
* Skills across plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, lighting, furniture, and general maintenance.
* Experience with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM).
* Knowledge of safety regulations and compliance.
* Stock management experience is advantageous.
* Experience in outdoor ground maintenance.
* IT literacy.
Personal Attributes:
* Ability to work in a multicultural environment with diverse colleagues and residents.
* Excellent communication skills; multilingual skills are a plus.
* Strong organizational and leadership qualities, with the ability to remain calm under pressure.
* Adaptability, creativity, positivity, resilience, and the ability to handle unexpected situations.
* Physical ability to perform tasks involving standing and repetitive movements, with reasonable adjustments if needed.
Benefits:
We offer a range of benefits including paid holidays (28 days including bank holidays, pro-rata), a day off for your birthday, access to Perkbox for lifestyle perks, a Royal London pension scheme with employer contributions, annual parties and events, recognition schemes, career development programs, 24/7 Employee Assistance, and more.
Note: All employment offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including DBS. We cannot sponsor visas or work permits.
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