Job Req ID: 308614
Posting Start Date: 14 May 2026
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire, GB, DL7 9NJ
Contract Type: Full Time
Who We Are
VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.
What We Do
We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.
Location
RAF Leeming, on site role
Salary
£42,000
Responsibilities
* Lead safe, compliant, and effective delivery of planned and reactive maintenance services across the VIVO contract, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, MoD mandatory requirements, and VIVO’s Health, Safety and Environmental standards.
* Coordinate day‑to‑day service delivery with supply chain partners and site‑based teams, ensuring appropriately qualified operatives are deployed with correct equipment, skills and authorisations.
* Oversee safe systems of work, review Risk Assessments and Method Statements, and ensure all activity is recorded accurately through the CAFM system.
* Build strong working relationships with Defence Infrastructure Organisation representatives, end users and internal stakeholders, acting as a key point of contact for operational issues and complaints.
* Contribute to the development of additional works and provide professional and technical advice to support estate operations, including managing small billable works with cost estimates.
* Lead by example, embedding a positive safety culture, and provide clear supervision, coaching and direction to teams to meet service levels.
* Balance operational priorities with commercial awareness, manage costs, mitigate risk and contribute to forward maintenance planning to support a profitable and sustainable contract.
Qualifications
* Practical experience within planned and reactive maintenance environments, ideally with responsibility for small project delivery.
* HNC (or equivalent experience) in building, civil, electrical or mechanical disciplines.
* Management‑level Health & Safety qualification such as SMSTS.
* Strong IT skills – confident use of Microsoft Office and CAFM systems.
* Technical competency and readiness to take on additional responsibilities such as Legionella, Asbestos, Confined Space, or Working at Height Authorised Person roles (training provided).
* Confident communicator with strong relationship‑management skills, able to influence stakeholders, make sound decisions and drive high standards in a regulated, safety‑critical environment.
What We Offer
* 6% employee matched pension contribution
* 25 days annual leave
* Single private medical cover
* Life assurance 2x annual salary
Equal Opportunities
VIVO is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. We will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.
We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. VIVO is proudly a Disability Confident Leader. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.
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