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Facilities and Services Officer- Birmingham COVER

Posted: 27/04/26
Recruiter:Gordon Yates Recruitment Consultancy
Reference:3102083920
Type:Temporary
Salary:Competitive
Location:City, Birmingham
Description: Facilities and Services Officer needed for A/L cover. 30th April- 8th May, not working the weekend and Monday 4th May bank holiday. £14.24 an hour.

Please see below the shift pattern:
Monday- Thursday 13:00- 21:00
Friday 10:00- 18:00

THE ROLE-
  • Open / Close the building and maintain security levels (building sweeps for people on site when closing etc)
  • Management of reception desk and cover reception as part of a rota (to include weekends and evenings)
  • Monitor and maintain a high standard of health and safety by undertaking regular building checks and resolving or reporting any issues that arise
  • Maintain a high standard of service to the building users by proactively identifying areas requiring maintenance
  • Provide an excellent level of customer service at all times, including handling ad hoc enquiries from building users and other customers in a professional and courteous manner, either resolving or referring on to others as appropriate
  • Develop and maintain a trusted partner relationship with teams throughout the University and support administrative tasks that might be required
  • Daily completion of documented room checks to ensure all equipment works, nothing is missing, classes are clean and in the correct configuration, and there are no broken or damaged tables/chairs
  • Daily completion of documented building checks
  • Act as the first point of contact for facilities/building issues (building management, landlord and contractors)
  • Manage the Facilities Maintenance portal (log new reactive tasks, review jobs raised, monitor job progress)
  • Carry out basic repairs and maintenance to building fabric and equipment
  • Carry out basic PPM checks: fire alarm tests, fire extinguisher, lightning, fire doors etc.
  • Act as Health & Safety contact, First Aider and Fire / Chief Fire Marshal
  • Overseeing annual H&S & Fire audits and assist with Fire Drills and any other H&S-related matters; regular first aid box checks, defibrillator checks, site inductions
  • Management of personal emergency evacuation procedures (PEEP)
  • Provide a first-line response to classroom IT queries and troubleshooting issues and log issues with IT service desk
  • Assist faculty in classrooms as and when required, with basic IT troubleshooting
  • Manage and invigilate on-site Computer based assessments (CBA); schedule and facilitate
  • Report any safeguarding, compliance, data protection, student conduct and infosec issues to the relevant internal teams
  • Carry out any administrative duties in support of the role: (printing and uploading class register, displaying relevant classroom change signage, creating and printing QR codes)
  • Carry out documented security-related tasks: regular premises patrols, door code changes, reviewing and downloading CCTV footage, checking lanyards and QR scanning, challenging and reporting inappropriate behaviour, escalating security issues to management or local authorities
  • Create and issue staff and students lanyards
  • Ensuring all staff and students wear lanyards whilst on site
  • Be flexible and willing to work out of normal hours to deal with any ad hoc issues that arise and deal with them appropriately. Be prepared to provide holiday/sickness cover when required. This may include a change of timing or work location.
  • Perform other duties that may be required to enable the Facilities Management Team to deliver its agreed service level

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