Onsite School Service Assistant

Job Title

Onsite School Service Assistant

Job Description Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Roaming Onsite School Service Assistant based in the Northern & Western suburbs of Melbourne, Your role will be to cover leave taken by the permanent maintenance staff based at one of seven primary schools, you will oversee & manage all onsite facilities management operations and be the onsite point of contact for school operators, school employees, contractors and other school users.

Job Description

About the Role

You will deliver and supervise all facilities maintenance duties at the school, ensuring the provision of a safe work environment for the staff and students, following practices and procedures from Cushman & Wakefield. This role will provide for all planned and reactive building, grounds and gardens maintenance in accordance with the contract requirements and standards.

What You Will Do

• Perform general grounds and gardens maintenance duties including general gardening duties including sweeping/blowing debris from pathways and synthetic turf etc.

• Complete broad maintenance tasks as required (handyman duties) e.g., adjusting doors, changing light globes, emptying recycled paper bins around the school to the skip etc.

• Collect mail for the school from local Post Office

• Monitor and complete daily and ad-hoc facility maintenance requests from database and arrange for contractor attendance when required.

• Provide site activity reports each week and close out work orders raised within KPI.

• Responsible for on site management and coordination of contractors including basic reporting e.g., Flash Reports, Vandalism Forms and Task Sheets/Inspection Sheets.

• Ensure all visitors and contractors sign in via the Cushman & Wakefield QR system.

• Ensure all attending contractors have completed the contract induction when signing into the onsite sign in register.

• management of contractor movement within school grounds.

• Deliver and supervise the facilities management operations, including the planned and reactive maintenance for buildings, grounds and gardens including supporting the help desk function.

About you

• You would have an interest in a mixture of outdoor grounds work and indoor handyman work.

• Demonstrated experience working at critical sites/grounds.

• A common-sense approach and initiative

• Standard experience with Word, Excel and Outlook

• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to think in an autonomous fashion when needed.

• Self-motivated to enhance the school and business with a great attention to detail.

• Quality and continuous improvement focus.

• Victorian Driver’s license and technical qualifications in either mechanical or electrical fields.

• Working with Children’s Check and Police check – Mandatory

• As this is a Trade based role a medical check will be mandatory for the successful applicant

• If you think you possess these qualities our Cushman & Wakefield careers team would like to speak to you.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from; Being part of a growing global company; Career development and a promote from within culture; An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional, and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. As part of our ongoing commitment to RAP, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island Islanders are highly encouraged to join us! (For AUS only) We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.