Facilities Assistant
Niddrie/Craigmillar/Inch area of Edinburgh
Salary: £26,806 – £27,032 (pro-rata for part-time) — Hours: 0 per week (casual contract)
This role offers flexibility, allowing you to pick up shifts that suit your availability while supporting our service during busy periods or staff absence.
As a Facilities Technician with the City of Edinburgh Council, you’ll be a key member of our Facilities Management team. You’ll deliver a vital janitorial service across our estate to ensure our properties are a safe place to work or learn in. Enjoy secure and flexible employment with above‑market rates and excellent conditions, whilst being able to balance family, caring or studying commitments.
Key Benefits
- Trusted employer
- Security offered by permanent positions when available.
- Opportunities to progress
- Community connection – looking after your community’s essential buildings used by your family, friends, and neighbours.
As part of our team, you will be valued and respected with a key focus on training and development.
Major Tasks / Job Activities
You will undertake day to day FM, janitorial and DIY operations across one or more buildings, ranging from small repairs and general maintenance to reactive cleaning, supporting moves and conducting basic security functions.
- Equipment and furniture and fitting maintenance
- Building maintenance and services
- Security of premises and grounds
- Grounds maintenance
- Cleaning /Tidying
Please see the supporting documents for more information about the role.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out of the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre‑employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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