Annual salary: up to £27,892.00

Facilities Operative

Darlington with travel across Northeast including

Full time, Permanent, 42.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

 Salary up to £27,892 per annum, plus, company vehicle & fuel card.

Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At the end of May 2021 Mears had over 19000 service users across the three regions. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.

About the Role:

As a Facilities Operative within our Darlington branch, you work within Housing team delivering a range of services to our clients, including a range of Hard, Soft and Grounds Maintenance services and this role is pivotal in ensuring that all or a combination of maintenance, compliance, cleaning and grounds tasks are completed. The main roles includes checking and fixing emergency lights, fire alarm systems, smoke alarms and legionella. Within this role there may be a little bit of pat testing where required.

Role Criteria:

• Experience with fire alarms and emergency lighting
• Working within a similar role
• Social housing experience
• Team player and ability to work alone
• Excellent communication

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• Company Van and Fuel Card
• Power tools provided

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact Beth Dunford on [email protected]

Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.