Facilities Assistant
Job Description
We're looking for a Facilities Assistant to join our team at our head office in Steeton, West Yorkshire.
In this role, you'll support daily tasks across Housekeeping, the Post Room, Administration, Reception, and General Maintenance. If you're ready to be part of a dynamic team, apply now!
Type of contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £12.35 P/H
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5.00pm
Holiday Entitlement: 28 days per year (including bank holidays)
Benefits of working at Acorn:
- Induction and training programme
- Investors in People award
- Healthcare and pension provisions
- Free on-site parking
- Excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, and Skipton
- Cycle to work scheme
- Company Events
- On site Canteen (Subsidised food)
- Gym Membership discounts
- Health & wellbeing programme
Must be able to display the Acorn Values
OUR VALUES
- Quality of the products we make and sell and the service we provide
- Unity Working together as one team
- Integrity Acting responsibly and honestly to deliver on our promises
- Caring About our customers, each other and the wider community
- Ambition Taking Pride in all we do and striving to improve
Acorn Achievers:
We run a monthly incentive scheme to recognize employees that go over and above their job duties by rewarding them with a first prize of £100 vouchers and two runner ups of £50 vouchers each.
Recommend a friend scheme:
Do you want to recommend us a friend to work with us? Do it and you can earn up
to £100 if your friend is finally offered a position to join Acorn!
Please, apply now if you want to be considered for this role.
All recruitment communications will come solely from our internal Recruitment Team at Acorn Stairlifts.
Please note: this position may close early if we receive a high volume of qualified applications. To ensure ample consideration, please submit your application as soon as possible.
The Ideal Candidate
- Administration experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to multi task
- Working to strict deadlines
- Good IT skills
Key Responsibilities
- Predominantly Housekeeping; assisting the housekeeping teams with general cleaning of the office environment
Also to include on a adhoc basis:
- Post room duties to include; delivering and collecting mail from around the office buildings, downloading mail files on the PC, printing, putting into envelopes and franking outbound mail
- Facilities Administration; ability to respond to email, raise orders and complete general administration tasks
- Reception; greeting visitors, answering and transferring incoming calls
- Be observant for H&S issues and ensure that they are rectified or made safe and reported to management
- Ensuring facilities issues are responded to within a timely manner.
- Be flexible in shift patterns to cover colleagues absence due to sickness or annual leave
- Any other duties as assigned by the facilities manager that relate to maintaining the facilities in a clean, functional and aesthetically pleasing state
Salary Package
Salary: £12.35 P/H
Benefits
- Excellent Transport Links to Leeds, Bradford and Skipton
- Free Parking
- Healthcare Provision
- Induction and Training Programme
- In-house Canteen
- Life Insurance Cover
- On-going Coaching and Development
- Pension Provision
About the Facilities Department
Our Facilities department cares about the environment that we provide for our staff. It’s our job to provide a safe, clean, productive and well-maintained physical environment and infrastructure, ensuring that we meet with legal requirements and Health & Safety standards. Opportunities within facilities include management, catering, internal and external maintenance, housekeeping, security and building and business administration.
Working with Acorn Stairlifts
Employing around 1,500 people worldwide Acorn is the world's largest independent manufacturer and supplier of straight stairlifts, with sales in over 80 countries and offices on 4 continents. Acorn achieved the Investors in People award and continues to invest in its most valuable resource: its people.
