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Building Fabric Tradesperson
Estates & Facilities
| Location: |
Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB |
| Salary: |
£24,871 to £27,166
per annum
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The point of entry will be dependent upon relevant qualifications and experience |
| Post Type: |
Full Time |
| Contract Type: |
Permanent
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| Closing Date: |
23.59 hours BST on Sunday 14 August 2022
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| Reference: |
BFT-2022 |
We are pleased to announce that we are recruiting for a Building Fabric Tradesperson to join the Estates Maintenance Team at Harper Adams University.
The successful candidate will be involved in:
- Carrying out reactive maintenance and providing front line response for all fabric work;
- Ensuring the University Estate is maintained to a high standard;
- Carrying out fault finding, testing, repairing and preventative maintenance of service equipment;
- Working closely with and supporting the wider Estates team
- Reporting any Health and Safety issues as required; and
- Maintaining accurate records of breakdowns and maintenance repairs, including records for statutory compliance.
The successful candidate will have:
- Multi-skilled with a good working knowledge of industry requirements for building & refurbishments;
- Robust approach to compliance with current regulations and legislation;
- Ability to work within a team with a range of skills and experience;
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative in prioritising tasks.
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jayne Weaver at jweaver@harper-adams.ac.uk.
Harper Adams University is one of the premier UK Higher Education institutions focused on the land-based and food supply chain sector. With around 2,800 undergraduate students, plus those completing postgraduate, research and CPD programmes, Harper Adams University is the UK's largest single provider of higher education for these subjects. Programmes fall into eleven broad subject areas – but none operate in isolation. Community and collaboration are key at Harper Adams, meaning everyone, including staff, students and industry partners, benefits from a close network of knowledge and opportunity exchange. Situated in Shropshire, the campus and the surrounding area provide an excellent working and living environment for staff and students alike.
Harper Adams is consistently positioned highly in a range of national ratings, performance measures and league tables. The University has been the highest performing modern university in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide for the last four years, climbing to 17th place in the overall league table. In the 2020 guide Harper Adams was named Modern University of the Year and runner-up University of the Year. In the 2019 Whatuni? Student Choice Awards, based on student reviews, Harper Adams won the Student Support category for the fifth time – the only university to have taken the title since the awards began - and won the category for best job prospects for a fourth year running. In the 2020 QS World Rankings for Agriculture and Forestry published in March 2020, Harper Adams was ranked first in the UK for academic reputation and second in the world for its reputation with employers.
Applied research is at the heart of the university’s activity, with the work of a thriving academic community underpinning both teaching and work with the industries allied to Harper. The 2014 Government Research Excellence Framework rated all of the university’s research as “of international quality”, and more than half was deemed “world leading” or “internationally excellent”.