Maintenance Operative
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,132 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2025 |
| Location: | Tyneside, North East England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Northumbria Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JRN 30432 |
Summary
Salary Band 2, £24,132 (including a Real Living Wage Supplement)
Location: South Shields
Hours/Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Business Services Team as a Maintenance Operative
As a Maintenance Operative at our South Shields Police Station, you will provide a building and vehicle maintenance service and ad-hoc driving duties to the force to support the needs of operational activities and ensure a safe and functional working environment for Northumbria Police staff and visitors
What you’ll do
Maintain designated buildings to ensure that staff and visitors using the buildings are provided with a safe and functional environment by undertaking all related building checks.
Carry out basic repairs and maintenance including assessments of work to be undertaken, assigned testing, and scheduled servicing of buildings and equipment.
Undertake office furniture moves and transfers in order to help ensure that everyone has the necessary equipment and supplies for their needs.
Collect and dispose of confidential and non-confidential waste, unwanted furniture and equipment.
Provide cover for other driving posts when requested to ensure driver cover is maintained.
Arrange servicing, undertake routine vehicle checks and minor maintenance of police vehicles, reporting problems/defects to Fleet Management and arrange valeting.
Assist contractors with repairs and provide an escort service to non-vetted contractors.
Undertake driving duties, taking/collecting vehicles for repair. Take vehicles to external garages for tyre replacements, collecting items from Stores and local trade suppliers.
What you’ll bring
Knowledge of general building maintenance skills and upkeep.
A full driving licence and able to drive manual vehicles including transit sized vans.
Being able to trouble shoot building faults, remedy basic issues, or escalate as appropriate.
Being able to work as part of a wider team and cover other locations as required.
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, line managers and contractors to ensure issues are understood and appropriate action can be taken.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Just so you know
Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview.
Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Northumbria Police are currently a Real Living Wage employer – this means that if the hourly rate paid to you by Northumbria Police in respect of your assigned role does not meet the Real Living Wage, then an additional payment will be made.
Location: South Shields
Hours/Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Business Services Team as a Maintenance Operative
As a Maintenance Operative at our South Shields Police Station, you will provide a building and vehicle maintenance service and ad-hoc driving duties to the force to support the needs of operational activities and ensure a safe and functional working environment for Northumbria Police staff and visitors
What you’ll do
Maintain designated buildings to ensure that staff and visitors using the buildings are provided with a safe and functional environment by undertaking all related building checks.
Carry out basic repairs and maintenance including assessments of work to be undertaken, assigned testing, and scheduled servicing of buildings and equipment.
Undertake office furniture moves and transfers in order to help ensure that everyone has the necessary equipment and supplies for their needs.
Collect and dispose of confidential and non-confidential waste, unwanted furniture and equipment.
Provide cover for other driving posts when requested to ensure driver cover is maintained.
Arrange servicing, undertake routine vehicle checks and minor maintenance of police vehicles, reporting problems/defects to Fleet Management and arrange valeting.
Assist contractors with repairs and provide an escort service to non-vetted contractors.
Undertake driving duties, taking/collecting vehicles for repair. Take vehicles to external garages for tyre replacements, collecting items from Stores and local trade suppliers.
What you’ll bring
Knowledge of general building maintenance skills and upkeep.
A full driving licence and able to drive manual vehicles including transit sized vans.
Being able to trouble shoot building faults, remedy basic issues, or escalate as appropriate.
Being able to work as part of a wider team and cover other locations as required.
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, line managers and contractors to ensure issues are understood and appropriate action can be taken.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Just so you know
Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview.
Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Northumbria Police are currently a Real Living Wage employer – this means that if the hourly rate paid to you by Northumbria Police in respect of your assigned role does not meet the Real Living Wage, then an additional payment will be made.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
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.