Caretaker
Sub Division: Facilities Management
Location: Sheffield
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours - Monday to Friday
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Purpose of Role
We're looking for a reliable and proactive Live-In Maintenance Caretaker to join the facilities team at a large school in Sheffield. Working as part of a team of four caretakers, you'll play a key role in ensuring the school remains safe, secure, and well-maintained while acting as the first point of response for site emergencies.
Job Description
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys a varied, hands-on role and is looking for the benefit of on-site accommodation. As part of the position, you'll be required to live in the school's caretaker's house—a spacious three-bedroom semi-detached property available under a rental agreement of £250 per month, making it suitable for individuals or families.
Responsibilities
- Open the school each morning and ensure the site is safe and ready for the school day
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across the school estate
- Respond as the first point of contact for fire alarms, emergency call-outs and site safety issues
- Complete general building maintenance, including basic plumbing, electrical and building fabric repairs
- Undertake routine inspections to ensure the site remains safe, secure and compliant
- Support the upkeep of the school grounds, including gritting and clearing pathways during adverse weather
- Set up rooms for assemblies, meetings, examinations and school events
- Work alongside the wider caretaking team to maintain high standards across the site
- Deliver larger maintenance and refurbishment projects during school holiday periods when pupils are off-site
Essential Qualifications/Skills
- Previous experience in a caretaking, facilities maintenance or building maintenance role
- Good all-round maintenance skills across building fabric, basic plumbing and electrical repairs
- Understanding of health & safety and safe working practices within a school or similar environment
- Confident dealing with emergency situations and acting as the first responder on site
- Reliable, organised and able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Willingness to live on-site in the provided caretaker's accommodation as a condition of the role
- Enhanced DBS check (required prior to starting – support will be provided)
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
Work Location: In person
