Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician – Aurora Boveridge College
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Contract: permanent, 40 hours per week, year round
Hourly Rate: £12.15 - £13.14 per hour
Annual Salary: £25,272.00 - £27,331.20

At Aurora Boveridge College, we prepare our students for adult life, through person-centred academic and vocational study programmes leading to independent living with employment or further study. By working together, we increase resilience, confidence, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and well-being: the cornerstones on which strong and successful long-term futures are built.

The main purpose of the role:

We currently looking for a Maintenance Technician to join our friendly team covering both Boveridge College and The Beeches School.

The support services teams are an essential pillar in enabling the children and young adults to achieve their full potential.

The role requires emphasis on Health & Safety relevant to the premises ensuring that the building and grounds are continually fit for purpose for students and staff to enable them to fulfil their roles.

This job involves various duties to help the Site maintenance manager keep the site property in good order, carrying out general maintenance, and repairs to the building, and planned maintenance. This will require a high level of attention to detail to promote the character of the building.

Key Duties

• Carry out repairs and maintenance to a high standard in a proactive approach.
• Conduct regular inspections and ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of all areas of the college and school.
• Keep a record of all the day-to-day maintenance and service activities undertaken
• Comply with all corporate policies regarding Health and Safety whilst carrying out maintenance functions.
• Report defects, damages and malfunctions to the Maintenance Team Leader
• Ensure the effective completion of all tasks.
• Play a full part in building good relationships with other staff, students and stakeholders.
• Carry out regular planned maintenance inspection on services, utilities and the building fabric throughout the college report findings and take necessary actions.
• Ensure that all emergencies are dealt with speedily and effectively

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Maintenance Technician - Job Description

Successful candidate qualities:

• General maintenance knowledge ,basic tasks related to joinery, electrical fittings and plumbing
• Knowledge of current Health & Safety regulations
• Understanding of hot & cold water systems
• Knowledge of good working trade practices.
• Due to our rural location access to transport and a drivers licence is essential

What’s on offer?

 Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

If you are interested in this role then please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact kirsty.wilkinson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.