Buildings Maintenance Officer
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,892 to £26,403 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Lake District, North West England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Lake District National Park Authority |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We’re looking for a Buildings Maintenance Officer to provide a friendly and enthusiastic service to a range of properties across the Lake District National Park. The role will see you travel across the national park attending to both reactive and planned maintenance tasks as well as regularly attending our head office in Kendal to provide facilities management support there.
About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to protect, connect and grow as well as supporting those who live and work here. Our staff include rangers and field workers, advisers at our visitor centres, planners and ecologists.
What’s it like to work here?
Our People of the Park are passionate about the landscape and proud of the work we do to look after it and help people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.
We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. What’s more, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.
The Buildings and Projects team are a small and friendly team who work to ensure our properties are safe and well maintained for use by both our staff and the general-public.
A lot of your time will be spent out in the national park working remotely, addressing maintenance issues on our properties. You will combine this with working from our head office at Wayfaring House in Kendal where you will be required to provide a facilities support service to the users of this building. To allow you to carry out your work remotely you will be provided with a van, mobile phone and laptop to enable you to access our secure IT network
The role
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• Building Maintenance: attending to reactive and planned maintenance tasks at our properties
• Office Support: Help with system checks, heating, room setup, and general maintenance at Wayfaring House (our Kendal office).
• Perform regular inspections of properties preparing a maintenance programme of works required
• Coordinating with external contractors and service providers
• Ensuring LDNPA buildings are well maintained and safe for building users/the public
• Maintaining accurate electronic records of all maintenance activities, inspections, and repairs performed on LDNPA properties
About you
This opportunity would suit someone with a flexible, can-do attitude, who is experienced in buildings maintenance and facilities management. You should enjoy working unsupervised under your own initiative and be committed to promoting sustainability and safety across our sites. Given the nature of the role, you must hold a full driving license.
Please read the attached role profile for the full person specification on this post.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing
We’re happy to talk about flexible working – let us know if you want to find out more
See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.
Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Ian Blake, Buildings Manager on 07789 747 266
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.
About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to protect, connect and grow as well as supporting those who live and work here. Our staff include rangers and field workers, advisers at our visitor centres, planners and ecologists.
What’s it like to work here?
Our People of the Park are passionate about the landscape and proud of the work we do to look after it and help people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.
We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. What’s more, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.
The Buildings and Projects team are a small and friendly team who work to ensure our properties are safe and well maintained for use by both our staff and the general-public.
A lot of your time will be spent out in the national park working remotely, addressing maintenance issues on our properties. You will combine this with working from our head office at Wayfaring House in Kendal where you will be required to provide a facilities support service to the users of this building. To allow you to carry out your work remotely you will be provided with a van, mobile phone and laptop to enable you to access our secure IT network
The role
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• Building Maintenance: attending to reactive and planned maintenance tasks at our properties
• Office Support: Help with system checks, heating, room setup, and general maintenance at Wayfaring House (our Kendal office).
• Perform regular inspections of properties preparing a maintenance programme of works required
• Coordinating with external contractors and service providers
• Ensuring LDNPA buildings are well maintained and safe for building users/the public
• Maintaining accurate electronic records of all maintenance activities, inspections, and repairs performed on LDNPA properties
About you
This opportunity would suit someone with a flexible, can-do attitude, who is experienced in buildings maintenance and facilities management. You should enjoy working unsupervised under your own initiative and be committed to promoting sustainability and safety across our sites. Given the nature of the role, you must hold a full driving license.
Please read the attached role profile for the full person specification on this post.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing
We’re happy to talk about flexible working – let us know if you want to find out more
See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.
Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Ian Blake, Buildings Manager on 07789 747 266
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.