Facilities Officer
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £25,516 to £27,341 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 April 2026 |
| Location: | Maidstone, Kent |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Maidstone Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About the Role:
We’re looking for a proactive and organised Facilities Officer to join our busy Facilities Management team ensuring our workspaces are safe, welcoming, compliant, and fit for purpose for staff, visitors, and service users.
As part of both the Facilities Management and Property Services teams, you’ll provide essential administrative and financial support while also helping to manage a range of property related tasks.
What you’ll be doing
• Providing financial and administrative support to the Corporate Property team.
• Administering energy payments, monitoring usage and reporting any unusual changes.
• Raising purchase orders and processing invoices in line with Council procurement procedures.
• Ensuring office equipment (such as MFDs, water boilers and coolers) is working correctly and arranging repairs or servicing when needed.
• Overseeing cleaning, stationery and related office contracts to maintain a clean and efficient working environment.
• Administering the issue of staff parking permits, bus passes and travel warrants.
You will be working both independently and as part of a team to provide a customer focused, efficient service.
This is a full-time position on a permanent contract, working 37 hours a week Monday to Friday on-site, with some hybrid working permitted.
About Maidstone Borough Council:
Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans.
We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well.
At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance.
Our Offer:
A range of benefits including:
• Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities
• 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
• Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
• Free parking
• Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people’s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time.
• Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities
• Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Life Assurance – three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
• Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping
• Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals
• A professional fee payment, if required for the role
About You:
You will be an enthusiastic and proactive individual with an interest in facilities management and property management.
You will have good verbal and written communication skills and be good at interacting with different people. You will be able to meet exacting deadlines, with excellent attention to detail and be focused on customer service.
Selection Process:
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Katie Exon Head of Property and Leisure on katieexon@maidstone.gov.uk
Job Description and Person Specification: https://docs.maidstone.gov.uk/jobs/Facilities-Officer-MBC-JDPS-March-26.pdf
Interview Date: W/C 20th April 2026
We’re looking for a proactive and organised Facilities Officer to join our busy Facilities Management team ensuring our workspaces are safe, welcoming, compliant, and fit for purpose for staff, visitors, and service users.
As part of both the Facilities Management and Property Services teams, you’ll provide essential administrative and financial support while also helping to manage a range of property related tasks.
What you’ll be doing
• Providing financial and administrative support to the Corporate Property team.
• Administering energy payments, monitoring usage and reporting any unusual changes.
• Raising purchase orders and processing invoices in line with Council procurement procedures.
• Ensuring office equipment (such as MFDs, water boilers and coolers) is working correctly and arranging repairs or servicing when needed.
• Overseeing cleaning, stationery and related office contracts to maintain a clean and efficient working environment.
• Administering the issue of staff parking permits, bus passes and travel warrants.
You will be working both independently and as part of a team to provide a customer focused, efficient service.
This is a full-time position on a permanent contract, working 37 hours a week Monday to Friday on-site, with some hybrid working permitted.
About Maidstone Borough Council:
Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans.
We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well.
At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance.
Our Offer:
A range of benefits including:
• Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities
• 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
• Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
• Free parking
• Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people’s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time.
• Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities
• Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Life Assurance – three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
• Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping
• Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals
• A professional fee payment, if required for the role
About You:
You will be an enthusiastic and proactive individual with an interest in facilities management and property management.
You will have good verbal and written communication skills and be good at interacting with different people. You will be able to meet exacting deadlines, with excellent attention to detail and be focused on customer service.
Selection Process:
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Katie Exon Head of Property and Leisure on katieexon@maidstone.gov.uk
Job Description and Person Specification: https://docs.maidstone.gov.uk/jobs/Facilities-Officer-MBC-JDPS-March-26.pdf
Interview Date: W/C 20th April 2026
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