Lead Maintenance Operative

Location: East London / Essex RegionHours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 - 17:00Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 Basic Salary + Performance Bonus Scheme

About the Opportunity

We are working with a well-established and rapidly growing childcare organisation, who are seeking to employ an experienced Lead Maintenance Operative to support a portfolio of early years education settings, across London and Essex.

This is an excellent opportunity for highly skilled multi-trade professionals, looking to join a stable organisation that continues to invest in its people, properties, and services. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining safe, compliant, and well-presented environments across multiple sites.

Reporting into the senior management team, you will be responsible for delivering both reactive and planned maintenance across a number of locations. This is a mobile, hands-on position, requiring a broad range of building maintenance skills and the ability to work independently across multiple sites.

The role will involve diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, maintaining compliance standards, and ensuring all facilities remain fully operational.

• Carrying out reactive and planned preventative maintenance
• Electrical fault finding, repairs, and lighting maintenance
• Plumbing repairs and general maintenance works
• Air conditioning cleaning and basic fault diagnosis
• Maintenance and repair of door access systems, intruder alarms, and fire alarms
• Carpentry works, including fire door maintenance and repairs
• Roofing and guttering repairs
• Installation and maintenance of telephone lines and Wi-Fi extenders
• Drain maintenance and minor repair works
• CCTV system maintenance and troubleshooting
• Maintaining accurate maintenance records and compliance documentation
• Ensuring all work is completed safely and to a high standard

They are looking for an experienced maintenance professional, who is confident working across multiple trades and capable of resolving a wide variety of maintenance issues independently.

Applicants should possess:

• A minimum of 10 years' experience within commercial building maintenance
• Mechanical Qualification - Level 2 or Level 3
• Electrical Qualification - Level 3 Diploma
• City & Guilds 18th Edition
• City & Guilds Level 3 Carpentry Diploma
• Proven multi-trade maintenance experience
• Strong fault-finding and problem-solving abilities
• Experience working with CCTV systems
• Excellent communication and customer-facing skills
• Full UK driving licence
• Own tools and maintenance equipment
• Copies of all relevant trade qualifications and certificates

• Basic salary of £45,000 - £50,000
• Annual performance bonus
• Company van provided
• Trade cards
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Employee welfare programme
• Team building events and recognition initiatives
• Long-term career prospects within a growing organisation

If you are an experienced multi-trade maintenance professional seeking a new challenge with a growing organisation, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Denise or Isabelle at Adecco Romford & LDN East (Option 2)

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