Maintenance Assist
Listed on 2026-08-16
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Building Maintenance, Facility Maintenance
- Full time
- 36 hours per week
- Monday-Thursday - 07:30am - 15:30pm
- Friday - 07:30am - 13:30pm
- £14.71per hour
- Free Parking
- Breakfast and lunch included
- Opportunities for career development
- Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package
Maintenance Assist
Prestwick - Full time
Operational excellence begins with you.
At Sodexo, we’re passionate about our people. We know that our teams are the key to delivering exceptional service and creating quality experiences for our clients, customers, and employees. Build a name with big-name businesses.
As a Maintenance Assist with Sodexo, you'll enhance the services of our vibrant corporate site, offering a helping hand to ensure flawless facilities operations and keep things running smoothly.
What you'll do:
- Support the safe operation, maintenance and repair of M&E building services, plant and fabric equipment across the site.
- Carry out planned and reactive maintenance within your level of technical competence, with approximately 50% of the role being hands-on maintenance work
. - Provide technical support and guidance to the wider maintenance team, helping to resolve faults and operational issues.
- Coordinate directly employed labour and subcontractors to ensure Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) activities are completed effectively and on time.
- Help achieve and maintain 100% compliance across all statutory PPM activities
. - Support the delivery of reactive maintenance services both during normal operating hours and, where required, outside of normal site hours.
- Ensure work requests, permits and associated maintenance documentation are completed accurately and appropriately.
- Monitor plant and equipment performance, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency and overall performance.
- Support the development and implementation of systems that help keep plant operating at optimum efficiency.
- Participate in energy-saving initiatives and promote the efficient use of energy across the site.
- Monitor the performance of subcontractors and ensure work is completed safely and to the required standards.
- Work alongside the SHEQ team to support the review and maintenance of Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work.
- Maintain accurate maintenance, Health & Safety and contract performance records.
- Build positive working relationships with the client, colleagues, contractors and other site stakeholders.
- Promote a strong safety culture by reporting accidents, hazards, near misses and safety observations.
- Continually look for opportunities to improve maintenance processes and service delivery.
What you'll bring:
- Ideally, a minimum of 5 years' experience within building services and plant engineering
, including experience as a maintenance craftsperson. - Strong practical, hands-on maintenance and engineering experience.
- Experience of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance within a commercial or industrial environment.
- Technical knowledge or experience across areas such as LV, mechanical services, confined spaces, boiler and pressure systems and Legionella would be advantageous.
- A good understanding of Health & Safety legislation and safe working practices.
- Experience working with Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Work and Permit to Work procedures.
- The confidence to provide technical support and guidance to colleagues when required.
- Experience working with and coordinating subcontractors.
- Strong fault-finding, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good numerical and IT skills, with the ability to complete accurate reports and maintenance documentation.
- A proactive and resourceful approach with the ability to work under pressure and manage changing priorities.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team while also using your own initiative.
- Flexibility to support maintenance requirements outside normal operating hours when required.
- A willingness to undertake additional training and development relevant to the role.
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance tobe part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you foryou.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
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