Job Description

On behalf of EANI, we are looking for a Building Maintenance Officer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. This is a remote working role (travel required to Armagh on an ad-hoc basis)



EA was established on 1 April 2015 under the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. EA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Education (DE) and the Department for the Economy (DfE), responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective primary and secondary education and educational services are available to meet the needs of children and young people, and for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective youth services.

Job Purpose:

Operate and maintain an effective and efficient maintenance service for all Education Authority properties.



As a Building Maintenance Officer, your main responsibilities will be to:



Respond on a day to day basis to requests from building users, for urgent repairs to their buildings and infrastructure including other services deemed necessary. To carry out and prepare condition reports on all Education Authority properties, to ascertain maintenance requirements. Prepare and supervise planned maintenance programmes, minor work projects, projection of costs, drafting of specifications and working drawings. To appoint and supervise contractors of various disciplines to carry out the maintenance programme and be accountable for all contractual matters Issuing works orders and certifying accounts. To use the existing Education Authority estate management packages and software.

Essential:

Knowledge of CDM Regulations Knowledge of Health & Safety Regulations Experience in Constructions/Projects MS Office experience

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.



DE&I Commitment



EANI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.



In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".