Building and Maintenance Officer


Company:	Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited
Salary:	£26,520 to £32,240 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birmingham, B5 5SR
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Oct 2026
Closing date:	5 Nov 2026

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Summary

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £26,520 - £32,240 per annum

Our client is more than just an educational institution; they are a vibrant community dedicated to nurturing creativity and empowering students to reach their full potential. With campuses across the UK, Ireland, and Germany, they offer a diverse range of courses in modern music, performing arts, filmmaking and creative technology. Their commitment to excellence in creative arts education sets them apart, providing students with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to succeed in their chosen fields.

About the Role

As a Building and Maintenance Officer, you will support the day-to-day operation of our client's campus buildings, ensuring facilities, equipment and shared spaces are safe, well maintained and ready to support teaching, learning and wider student activity.

You'll help keep campus buildings and facilities running efficiently, responding to maintenance needs and supporting day-to-day operational activity.

What You'll Do:

- Support the day-to-day operation of campus buildings, ensuring teaching spaces, shared areas and facilities are appropriately prepared and maintained.

- Coordinate the opening and closing of buildings in line with agreed procedures and security requirements.

- Take ownership of building presentation, identifying and resolving issues that affect the campus environment.

- Carry out routine inspections and reactive checks of buildings, facilities and equipment, taking appropriate action where required.

- Undertake basic maintenance tasks and repairs, escalating issues to specialist contractors when necessary.

- Liaise with contractors to coordinate maintenance and repair works, supporting safe access and monitoring activity on site.

- Maintain accurate records of inspections, defects, maintenance activity and completed works.

- Support health and safety processes, including inspections, audits, compliance checks and local risk assessment activity.

- Promote safe working practices and escalate significant risks or safety concerns through the appropriate channels.

- Provide first-line support for routine IT and equipment issues, escalating more complex matters where required.

- Use relevant systems to record maintenance requests, compliance activity and operational information.

- Act as a first point of contact for building and facilities queries, resolving routine issues and coordinating support where needed.

- Contribute to operational projects and support colleagues across the wider Building and Technical Services team as required.

What You'll Bring:

- Experience working within a building, maintenance or facilities environment.

- Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads and respond to changing demands.

- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.

- A practical, solutions-focused approach and sound judgement when resolving day-to-day issues.

- The ability to build effective working relationships with students, colleagues, contractors and service teams.

- Experience coordinating or supporting maintenance and contractor activity.

- Good digital skills, including experience using operational, record-keeping or maintenance management systems.

- A practical understanding of health and safety requirements relevant to building and maintenance activities.

- The ability to work independently while contributing positively as part of a wider team.

- A flexible and adaptable approach to work.

To support campus operations and student activity, this full-time role is primarily based on a 1:00PM to 9:30PM shift pattern, Monday to Friday. However, flexibility is required, as there will be occasions when the postholder is required to work 7:30AM to 4:00PM or 9:30AM to 6:00PM.

Why Our Client?

They are a values-led organisation, meaning their core values underpin all that they do:

Believe in Everyone. Challenge the Norm. Grow Together. Do the Right Thing. Own It.

In addition to joining a committed and dedicated team, you will have access to:

- 25 days holiday per year (FTE)

- SMART pension

- A comprehensive benefits package

They continually strive to create a culture of inclusivity so that they truly represent their diverse communities. They particularly welcome applications from people of colour who are underrepresented in their organisation.

They are committed to promoting the safety and welfare of their students therefore, all successful applicants are required to complete a basic DBS disclosure. Depending on the role, you may be required to complete an enhanced check / enhanced check with barred list if required by statute and internal policy.

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