Business Services Maintenance Operative
| Posting date: | 06 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £25,146 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sunderland, Tyne & Wear |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Northumbria Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Band 2 £25,146
Location: Sunderland
Hours/Contract: 37 Hours, Permanent
Working for: North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (“NEROCU”)
The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit is one of nine Regional Organised Crime Units (“ROCU”) in England and Wales who lead the regional response to tackling serious and organised crime whilst supporting local and national delivery.
The role
We’re looking for a proactive and reliable individual to provide essential building and vehicle maintenance services, alongside ad-hoc driving duties, to support the operational needs of NEROCU. Your work will ensure a safe, functional, and professional environment for our staff and visitors, playing a vital role in enabling our teams to focus on tackling serious and organised crime.
In this hands-on role, you’ll carry out routine checks, basic repairs, and scheduled servicing for both buildings and vehicles, as well as respond to ad-hoc tasks that keep our operations moving. From maintaining facilities and equipment to supporting vehicle availability and providing efficient driving services, you’ll be a key part of ensuring everything runs seamlessly behind the scenes.
What you’ll do
- Maintain the building 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 the building and equipment to ensure that they are operational and safe.
- Undertake routine and ad hoc internal and external cleaning operations to provide a safe and functional environment for staff and visitors.
- Undertake office furniture moves and transfers to help ensure that NEROCU staff has the necessary equipment and supplies for their needs
What you’ll bring
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, prioritising workloads effectively, ensuring a high quality of service to our customers.
- You will be motivated and a self-starter, working independently to manage the workload.
- An understanding of health and safety.
- Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt to a variety of stakeholders.
- Confidence to manage expectations of numerous stakeholders and take personal responsibility for addressing any barriers to delivery.
- Competent with IT, able to input data onto the maintenance databases.
- This is a varied role where you’ll also provide support all staff across NEROCU. You’ll need to be flexible in your approach and able to manage a variety of people in different roles. You’ll also need a valid UK driving licence to travel between sites when required.
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.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Services Maintenance Operative with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
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 you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Location: Sunderland
Hours/Contract: 37 Hours, Permanent
Working for: North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (“NEROCU”)
The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit is one of nine Regional Organised Crime Units (“ROCU”) in England and Wales who lead the regional response to tackling serious and organised crime whilst supporting local and national delivery.
The role
We’re looking for a proactive and reliable individual to provide essential building and vehicle maintenance services, alongside ad-hoc driving duties, to support the operational needs of NEROCU. Your work will ensure a safe, functional, and professional environment for our staff and visitors, playing a vital role in enabling our teams to focus on tackling serious and organised crime.
In this hands-on role, you’ll carry out routine checks, basic repairs, and scheduled servicing for both buildings and vehicles, as well as respond to ad-hoc tasks that keep our operations moving. From maintaining facilities and equipment to supporting vehicle availability and providing efficient driving services, you’ll be a key part of ensuring everything runs seamlessly behind the scenes.
What you’ll do
- Maintain the building 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 the building and equipment to ensure that they are operational and safe.
- Undertake routine and ad hoc internal and external cleaning operations to provide a safe and functional environment for staff and visitors.
- Undertake office furniture moves and transfers to help ensure that NEROCU staff has the necessary equipment and supplies for their needs
What you’ll bring
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, prioritising workloads effectively, ensuring a high quality of service to our customers.
- You will be motivated and a self-starter, working independently to manage the workload.
- An understanding of health and safety.
- Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt to a variety of stakeholders.
- Confidence to manage expectations of numerous stakeholders and take personal responsibility for addressing any barriers to delivery.
- Competent with IT, able to input data onto the maintenance databases.
- This is a varied role where you’ll also provide support all staff across NEROCU. You’ll need to be flexible in your approach and able to manage a variety of people in different roles. You’ll also need a valid UK driving licence to travel between sites when required.
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.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Services Maintenance Operative with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
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 you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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.