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As part of our growing Engineering team, we are seeking a Maintenance Assistant to support the delivery of safe, efficient and effective maintenance activities across our client site in Warton, Lancashire.
This role provides vital support to both our in house engineers and subcontractors, assisting with day to day operational tasks, routine inspections, escorting, and ensuring works are carried out safely and in line with site procedures. The position is hands on and physically active, involving manual handling, working at height, and occasionally working within confined spaces.
You'll be expected to keep supervisors and the subcontractor coordinator updated on progress, support safe working practices, record activities via IT systems, and contribute to a high standard of customer service across the estate. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and confidence using technology for task updates are essential.
Main Duties
1. Escort subcontractors around site, ensuring safe access and adherence to security requirements.
2. Support subcontractor operations by carrying out safety inspections on ongoing works and reporting any concerns or deviations promptly.
3. Provide key updates to supervisors and the subcontractor coordinator regarding progress, risks, delays and completed activities.
4. Assist other trades (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fabric) with safe access and routine tasks when required.
5. Assist with stock management, ensuring consumables are replenished and stored correctly.
6. Maintain high standards of safety, following site procedures, permits and health & safety requirements at all times.
7. Flexibility to work out of hours and at weekends as required.
What We Are Looking For
8. Experience in building maintenance, site support, or a similar practical role.
9. Strong understanding of health and safety requirements within a maintenance or building environment.
10. A proactive approach to supporting maintenance operations and ensuring safe working practices.
11. Experience using PDA or IT-based systems for reporting and task completion.
12. Must have full UK driving licence.
13. Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
14. A commitment to excellent customer service, ensuring building users and stakeholders receive timely, accurate updates.
Any offer is subject to SC Clearance.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Nitika Singh at .