Site Maintenance Assistant

  • Travail Employment Group
  • Harrogate, Yorkshire
  • Oct 13, 2025
Full time Construction Assistant Construction

Job Description

Maintenance Assistant

Harrogate, 30,800 (incl of on call) Harrogate

Excellent opportunity to join a close-knit maintenance and care taking team within an educational environment undertaking planned and preventative maintenance tasks and ensuring upkeep and safety on site.

The role:

  • Opening up, locking up of the building
  • Undertaking planned buildings and preventative maintenance.
  • Undertaking security checks, fire alarm testing, maintaining emergency lighting
  • To undertake any care taking or porter services required
  • To help set up furniture, rooms and equipment for meetings and events.
  • Dealing within on-site contractors, ensuring work is completed safely and to an acceptable standard.
  • Undertake minor repairs, decoration and general upkeep.
  • Basic maintenance of company vehicles as required (checking oil trye pressure ect)
  • Installation of fixtures and fittings, clearing of drains, gullies, guttering.
  • Ensuring work in carried out in accordance with strict health and safety guidelines
  • Carrying out routine checks and maintaining appropriate records.
  • Distribution of stock and deliveries

Hours of work:

  • 35 hours per week rotational shift pattern - early shift 6.00am to 1.30pm / afternoon shift 12.00 to 7.30pm
  • On call - 1 week in 6 - on call allowance paid + overtime paid

You will:

  • Come from a caretaking & maintenance background ideally within education or care or similar
  • Either currently hole or be happy to undertake and enhanced DBS
  • Be able to undertake basic plumbing joinery, decoration, and general maintenance and repairs
  • Have worked in a building maintenance, handy person or caretaker capacity previously
  • Be well presented, professional and personable
  • Be organised and able to work to set daily job targets
  • Have a full clean driving licence
  • Have experience of working to PPM schedules
  • Have basic computer skills and be able to fill out maintenance reports

Benefits:

  • Company pension 5% / 5%
  • Sick pay
  • 24 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Free food
  • Gym
  • free parking
  • Cycle to work scheme

Call Yasemin at Travail on (phone number removed)

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.