Building Facilities Operative
Building Facilities Operative
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£ 24215 - 24215
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Salary:24215.00 - 24215.00 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Closing Date: 13 October 2025
The Role
Whats in it for you Newcastle University is a great place to work with excellentbenefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Newcastle is an inclusive global University community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.
Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody regardless of race sex ethnicity religion nationality sexual orientation age disability gender identity marital status/civil partnership pregnancy and maternity as well as being open to flexible working practices.
Estates & Facilities are a very large multidisciplinary team that look after the development maintenance safety and security of over 150 buildings across various sites including a wide variety of world class teaching and research facilities a range of diverse accommodation for over 3500 students across three student villages as well as caring for our beautifully landscaped grounds. We are also the team at the University responsible for catered halls great food and drink conferences and events.
We are looking for candidates who can support us with a variety of cleaning duties as well as supporting the porter team if required. We are responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of a large number of buildings in our beautiful campus. Our team of over 200 colleagues are responsible for periodic cleaning routines particularly around frequently touched services as well as deeper cleaning routines.
We are ideally looking for someone who has experience of working as part of a team in a customer focused environment.
We have hours available from 12.5 30hrs per week and really need our teams to have a flexible approach to working working when required on a rota covering the hours of 7am to 11pm all year round.
If this is you we are really interested in hearing from you. Please call Heather Willis our Building Facilities Manager onfor more information.
To apply please upload your most up to date CV to our application portal and complete the mandatory fields in the application form.
**Unfortunately this role would not qualify for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route.
Supporting the function of the Estates & Facilities office by providing a range of services to Academic Administrative and Service departments as an individual or as part of a team undertaking specified duties to service level standards and customer service standards.
Key Accountabilities
- Undertake general cleaning duties as required by the cleaning and portering Supervisors including the use of floor maintenance duties will include removal of general and clinical waste and their correct disposal distribution of deliveries throughout the facility general removals ensuring all stairways and fire corridors and exits are kept clear removing the obstructions or reporting the problem to the appropriate personnel.
- Contribute to the general security of the building property and persons and reporting incidents and potential breaches of security.
- Respond to emergency situations and taking appropriate action to minimise damage/distress. Where possible taking action to assist in rectifying the situation e.g. flooding lift failure with safe working practices by observing and complying with Estate & Facilities and Faculty/School health and safety procedures Provide cover for colleagues when necessary as directed by the Team Leader/Supervisor.
The Person (Essential)
Knowledge Skills and Experience
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Demonstratable experience of being able to plan and organise workloads
- Numerate and literate
- Experience of working in an educational or large organisation (Desirable)
- Ability to use rotary floor cleaning equipment (Desirable)
Attributes and Behaviour
- Flexible approach to working
- Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills
- Willing to help others and share workloads
- Physically able to carry out the duties of the position regular bending lifting moving around a large building or complex
- Willing to undertake work pattern as required by the Service including overtime
- Able to work unsocial hours
Qualifications
- BICSc or COPC or similar cleaning qualification (Desirable)
Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.
We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.
At Newcastle University we hold a silverAthena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.
In addition we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.
Requisition ID: 28617
Employment Type
Part-Time
