Facilities Officer

We are seeking a Facilities Officer to join our Facilities Management team.

You will play a pivotal part in our Property and Assets directorate as a Facilities Officer. The Facilities Management team manages a portfolio of properties. This service provides support and guidance to managers of services including office waste disposal, some grounds maintenance, daily on-site tasks and basic plumbing.

You will be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of a range of essential Facilities and Building Management Services. This role is customer facing and will involve developing good working relationships with a wide and diverse range of people such as Senior Management, your facilities colleagues, service users and members of the public.

Salary: £27,254 to £28,598 per annum.

Location:

Your office base will be Chichester, covering multiple sites daily

Working pattern:
Full-time, 37 hours per week Monday - Friday 8 am - 4:30pm.

Reporting to the Area Facilities Manager, you will work within a team managing maintenance and compliance at County Council buildings and ensuring a safe environment for staff and customers. You will be responsible for the effective and efficient provision of a range of essential Facilities and Building Management Services and implementing regulations that directly impact the health and safety of the building occupiers and visitors.

You would be expected to cover a range of different services within the WSCC property portfolio including fire services, libraries, adult services etc. You would start your day at our Worthing office before using a company van to travel a variety of sites depending on your day.

We operate an on-call rota, whereby you would be expected to keep your work phone on in case of an emergency at a site.

You will play a pivotal part in our Property and Assets directorate as a Facilities Officer. The Facilities Management team manages a portfolio of properties. This service provides support and guidance to managers of services including office waste disposal, grounds maintenance, accommodation management as well as the provision of technical advice .

You will be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of a range of essential Facilities and Building Management Services.

This role is customer facing and will involve developing good working relationships with a wide and diverse range of people such as Senior Management, your Facility colleagues, and members of the public.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

You will receive a generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)

We have a range of rewards and benefits specific to our Property and Assets directorate including:

• Work Van (Fuel is covered within this)
• Uniform
• All tools and Personal protective equipment (PPE) included
• Call out overtime at 1.5 hours rate

Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including the following:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you…