Maintenance Assistant

Contract: Healthcare

Location: Durham

Hours of work: 37.5

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Join our team as a Maintenance Assistant set new standards in service excellence for one our clients.

Job Description

In this 6-month FTC role, you'll play a crucial part in ensuring the smooth operation of our client's facilities.

From repairing and maintaining various departments of our company building to handling emergency situations, your expertise will be essential in upholding our commitment to providing world-class maintenance services.

With a focus on safety, security, and service, you'll be instrumental in ensuring the well-being of our employees, the protection of our assets, and the satisfaction of our client and team members.

Join us at ISS and be part of a team that's dedicated to delivering exceptional service.

Key Responsibilities

• Complies with all applicable Codes, Regulations, and Company Policies related to building operations and work safety
• Changing light bulbs and ensuring other fixtures and fittings are in good working order
• Rewiring, changing fuses, junction boxes etc.
• Minor plumbing and carpentry
• Clearing or cleaning general areas
• Shifting furniture or equipment
• Assembling furniture or equipment
• Garden/landscape installation and maintenance
• Footpath maintenance
• Painting and decorating
• Clearing gutters
• Changing filters on air conditioning systems
• Maintaining property exterior through the different seasons
• Repair windows or doors

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Secondary education, high school graduate, certificate in trade school or equivalent work experience
• Security clearance to a high government level will be required
• Must understand how things work (facility-related)
• Must be able to effectively communicate (oral and written) with all employees, contractors, and vendors
  Initiative-taker and collaborator
• Ability to prioritise and manage multi-functional tasks
• Ability to work quickly and effectively under pressure
• Ability to use standard powered and non-powered tools

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.