About the Role
The LTA ’s vision is ‘Tennis Opened Up’ and its mission is the transform communities through tennis by making it welcoming, enjoyable and inspiring to everyone. We have a similar approach to developing and promoting padel, one of the fastest growing sports in Britain.
The Maintenance Assistant will help maintain the NTC building and infrastructure, external grounds facilities and courts delivering a 5* service at the National Tennis Centre, the home of British Tennis.
The Maintenance Assistant’s focus will be maintenance of all facilities to the LTA’s specification, to keep our facilities safe, ready and presentable for elite training, competition, and events at the highest level of our sport.
Key Accountabilities
Maintenance of World Class Facilities:
- Work closely with the NTC Building Services Engineer and assist with the day-to-day maintenance of all facilities ensuring the work you carry out is delivered to a 5* standard as required by the LTA and in line with the NTC’s ‘ITF Gold Standard’ & LTA brand standards.
- Assist with the delivery of the on-going planned maintenance regime for all relevant NTC facilities.
- Assist with completion of all building services daily/weekly/monthly checklists.
- Respond to all allocated reactive tasks within a realistic and reasonable timeframe and be hands on with: painting and decorating, plumbing, carpentry, fixing general defects.
- Take ownership carrying out your role with safely in mind at all times, assisting the Building Services Engineer & Operations Manager with allocated Health & Safety tasks.
- Collect, log, and report energy readings.
- Assist with green initiatives to help reduce the business’ carbon footprint in line with the LTA’s Sustainability Strategy.
- Provide ad-hoc on the ground support when required to ensure all playing surfaces are ready for elite training and competition.
- Maintain a tidy, safe, and secure working environment.
- Operate of all NTC equipment, machinery and vehicles in a safe manner.
- Ensure the integrity of all external buildings and structures including workshops, canopies and air-halls including temperature monitoring.
- Assist with roof maintenance and gutter clearing duties, when required.
- Assist with external meetings, events, and functions to ensure setup and delivered with excellence.
Operational Support:
- Ad-hoc support of the service to visitors and colleagues, ensuring day-to-day issues are dealt with, including daily walk-rounds, completion of checklists.
- Hands-on operationally assisting with general tasks such as grass and clay court covers.
- Flexibility to work shifts as part of a rota, inclusive of early mornings, evenings, and weekends, across a seven-day operation.
- Support Building Services Engineer and the Operations Manager in the delivery of specified Capex projects as and when necessary.
- Ensure health and safety processes are adhered to by all contractors; where appropriate challenge or report unsafe behaviour, ensure contractor management processes are followed including the LTA’s permit to work system.
- Maintain good day-to-day working relationships with all contractors.
How to Apply
Please apply directly using the link on our careers page below. The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday 2nd August, however early applications are encouraged.
https://careers.lta.org.uk/vacancies/722/maintenance-assistant.html
Pay: £14.80 per hour
Work Location: In person
