Facilities & Operations: Hands

This role requires someone with excellent customer service skills, who is confident, personable and able to interact professionally with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels. You will be the first point of contact for many facilities queries, so a friendly, approachable attitude is essential.

This role also includes manual tasks such as setting up equipment, assembling furniture and carrying out general maintenance duties, so a practical, hands‑on approach is important.

We are looking for someone to provide efficient and effective support to our central Facilities team.

• Assist with planning and implementation of office moves including setting up equipment and assembling furniture.
• Take ownership of facilities requests received and allocated via internal CAFM system.
• Ensure actions from regular facilities inspections are carried out as required.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards and industry codes.
• Regular maintenance and repair of office furniture and equipment.
• General ad‑hoc maintenance duties and manual tasks including porterage of packages.

• Logical, well organised with the ability to prioritise.
• Numerate, computer literate and accurate.
• Uses initiative and completes tasks from start to finish.
• Focussed on meeting deadlines.
• Good communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to build and maintain good working relationships.
• Full UK driving licence.

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcing team@laingorourke.