Facilities Assistant

at  Luminate Education Group Business Support

About the Role
Do you have what it takes to be a Facilities Assistant?
Are you a team player with excellent communication skills? Can you effectively engage with our learners to ensure they understand our behavioural expectations?

We are seeking a Facilities Assistant who will play a vital role in creating a safe and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. You will work closely with the Facilities Supervisor to achieve this.

• Conduct routine maintenance tasks to keep our campus in top condition.
• Adhere to strict health and safety guidelines.
• Ensure teaching and learning spaces are well-maintained and functional.
• Carry out regular inspections to identify and address maintenance issues.
• Contribute to a clean, hygienic, and inviting campus environment.

The role is 37 hours per week, spread equally over 5 days. The campus currently operates Monday to Friday. Your role is over 52 weeks. Weekend work may be required when we have any external or internal college events.

What You Will Do

• Litter Picking, cleaning external areas.
• Refilling photocopiers and distributing internal and external mail.
• Setting up of rooms, which include moving furniture for teaching and exam requests.
• Assisting the Facilities Supervisor with weekly compliance checks.
• Unlocking and Locking up of the premises including setting of the Intruder Alarm.
• Assist the site team and provide support with the Emergency Evacuation Procedures such as Fire Alarm Activations and any other emergency.
• Support the Facilities Supervisor with on-site contractors and visitors, ensuring an understanding of the College guidelines and procedures.
• Minor repairs.

About You
The most important and essential attributes for this role are a commitment to self-development and to deliver outstanding customer service to our students and staff. Attributes required are: good interpersonal skills, being able to communicate effectively, be a team player, stay focused on the tasks in hand and be able to deal with challenging situations in a calm and measured manner.
English and Maths GCSE or equivalent is essential, along with a willingness to take part in a First Aid at Work course with the college and undertake all mandatory online training.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.

We are seeking a Facilities Assistant who will play a vital role in creating a safe and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. You will work closely with the Facilities Supervisor to achieve this.

• Conduct routine maintenance tasks to keep our campus in top condition.
• Adhere to strict health and safety guidelines.
• Ensure teaching and learning spaces are well-maintained and functional.
• Carry out regular inspections to identify and address maintenance issues.
• Contribute to a clean, hygienic, and inviting campus environment

What You Will Do

• Litter Picking, cleaning external areas.
• Refilling photocopiers and distributing internal and external mail.
• Setting up of rooms, which include moving furniture for teaching and exam requests.
• Assisting the Facilities Supervisor with weekly compliance checks.
• Unlocking and Locking up of the premises including setting of the Intruder Alarm.
• Assist the site team and provide support with the Emergency Evacuation Procedures such as Fire Alarm Activations and any other emergency.
• Support the Facilities Supervisor with on-site contractors and visitors, ensuring an understanding of the College guidelines and procedures.
• Minor repairs