Facilities Assistant

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Department – Trades & Services

Location(s) – London

Salary – £37,118 (including £3,050 retention allowance)., Flexible Working: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday 8:00 AM – 16:15PM (16:00 PM finish on Fridays). This role is office-based and cannot be undertaken from home. Optional weekend overtime available paid at double time., As a Facilities Assistant, you’ll be the face of the Estates Department for the majority of our colleagues. Everything you do will help to ensure the smooth running of the organisation. You could be moving office furniture, painting and decorating the internal buildings, changing and servicing secure locks, sorting post room admin, driving a forklift, minibus or lorry among other tasks.

You’ll have a degree of autonomy, working in a friendly team set within the Estates Department, providing core facilities and services that support MI6 colleagues in the UK and overseas. Every day, you’ll be working closely with other departments – both within the organisation and outside.

Though you’ll be based in central London, you could occasionally be required to work at other sites within the M25. Depending on training and medical clearance, there may also be occasional short trips to support our facilities overseas.

You’ll be comfortable working as part of a team in a customer-facing role. Dealing with colleagues from across the organisation, you’ll be able to communicate with people at all levels. No two days are the same, so you’ll work flexibly and be able to switch between jobs as priorities change.

You might have trades, logistics or warehouse experience, but it’s not essential – we’ll give you all the training you need when you join. All you’ll need is a full clean UK driving licence and basic knowledge of IT for data entry.

You’ll receive extensive training upon joining, including the following:

External Training

• CPC for Lorry or minibus (if not already qualified)

• Forklift

• First aid in the workplace training

• Portable appliance testing

• PASMA scaffolding & stairwells

Internal Training

• IT training

• Health and Safety training, including manual handling and basic fire awareness

• Induction training, including unconscious bias and EDI training

We’re committed to your development which is why you’ll be given a Training & Development Plan tailored to you. There’s potential for you to progress into a supervisor or management role, a different role within facilities or even a sideways move into a different department within MI6.

Rewards and Benefits

You’ll receive a starting salary of £37,118 and other benefits including:

• 25 days’ annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays

• Interest-free season ticket loan

• Excellent pension scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars

• Paid parental and adoption leave

Equal Opportunities

At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

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We’re Disability Confident

MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our Offer of Interview’ (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• Full, clean UK driving licence