Facilities Operational Assistant

Are you excited by the opportunity to be part of making sure our customers get the best experience when they use our bus stations and interchanges?

Are you looking for a challenging but rewarding role that will enhance your skills and knowledge?

Your Role

As a Facilities Operations Assistant, you will work ina team responsible for the operation of safe. clean and inviting bus stations and interchanges across Greater Manchester. The Facilities Operations Assistant role is vital and they are responsible for cleaning our sites (including public toilets and other customer facilities). They also support the rest of the team to make sure the sites operate safely and efficiently. All of this helps to make sure that the our customers have a great Bee Network experience every time they use our facilities. You will become a key member of the Facilities Operations team and play a big part in the delivery of TfGM Facilities Operations objectives. This is a shift working role and involvesweekend working. Normal duty hours are between 0700 2300 Monday to Saturday, 1000 1700 on Sundays and 1000 1800 on Public Holidays.

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

Facilities Operations are responsible for the safe operation of TfGM's operational sites and for providing face to face help and assistance to the customers of the Bee Network.We are a frontline team for TfGM and the Bee Network and play a crucial role in the delivery of the Bee Network ensuring theservices and facilities remain accessible, safe and reliable.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You’ll have experience in an operational/customer service role in a busy, bustling, vibrant environment and you’ll recognise the requirements and demands of providing excellent customer service to different audiences. You’ll know what the Bee Network is all about and the role that TfGM operational staff play in the delivery of the network. In this role you will be using a mobile device to assist you in producing records and reports, you’ll need some experience of using Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.

What we can offer you

We offer a competitive salary starting from £28,428 per annum plus a shift allowance of 15%, this means that as you’ll work on a rostered basis, we’ll add an extra 15% onto your total pay for the month (not just for certain shifts).You will also be able to claim mileage and travel time expenses and you’ll provided with a full uniform!

Through this advertisement, we will be populating a talent pool for opportunities at our hubs across Greater Manchester that may become available over the next 6 months. These could also be fixed term or permanent positions.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.

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Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.