Workplace Supervisor in Northallerton

Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

We're looking for a proactive, hands-on individual to join us as a Workplace Supervisor within our Commercial, Property, and Procurement team. As part of the role, you'll be out and about across a wide and varied property portfolio in the Northallerton area, making sure our buildings are safe, compliant, and ready to support vital public services. The council buildings include a variety of buildings from libraries to offices. Whether it's handling working with service on their accommodation/workplace requirements, basic maintenance, ensuring health and safety standards, or responding to the occasional out-of-hours call, you'll be trusted to take ownership and make decisions that matter.

Key Duties Include:

• Carry out regular inspections of council buildings to ensure they are safe, well-maintained, and compliant with health and safety standards.
• Ensure sites are kept safe and secure.
• Respond to and resolve day-to-day maintenance issues, including minor repairs and decoration, to keep workplaces functional and welcoming.
• Monitor building usage and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and functionality through practical workplace adjustments.
• Work with internal customers to ensure their workplace needs are being met or negotiate when changes need implementing.

The role is career graded so as you grow into the role, you will be able to move up the pay grades by taking additional responsibilities including:

• Championing continuous improvement by reviewing services, policies, and procedures.
• Taking the lead as our principal fire warden, ensuring the safety and coordination of colleagues during any evacuation at our main office base.
• Deputising on occasion for the Workplace Operations Manager.

What you can bring:

The most important element to this role is to be able to problem solve effectively, build good rapport with customers and contractors and have a good eye for detail. Other beneficial experience includes:

• Day to day operational running of multiple properties.
• Hands-on knowledge of property maintenance and building compliance.
• Skilled in managing on-site contractors, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard.
• Confident in identifying and managing risks, with a solid grasp of health and safety.

The role requires the ability to travel to remote areas so you must have a full driving license or be in the process of obtaining one.

Why Work for Us...

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier. These include:

• A local government, 15.1% employer contribution pension scheme.
• Salary sacrifice schemes.
• Modern flexible working practices.
• Learning and development packages.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets and gym discounts.
• Green car and cycle schemes.
• Travel loans.
• Health Assured - confidential help and support for your wellbeing.

You can find more information on the range of benefits we offer on our total rewards page.

Contact:

For an informal discussion and more information about this role, please contact Dan Leworthy - Dan.leworthy@northyorks.gov.uk

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk. NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.