Facilities and Services Officer- Birmingham

Facilities and Services Officer needed in Central Birmingham. This role starts Monday 2nd Feb and aims to be 1/2 months long. Role pays £14 per hour. A basic DBS is needed for this role but we can run this before the role starts.

Please see below the shift pattern:

• Monday to Thursday: 1pm – 9pm
• Friday: 10am – 6pm
• Weekends: 8:30am – 6pm (corresponding Monday and Friday would be days off)

The temporary worker will primarily cover late and closing shifts, 5 out of 7 days a week.

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.