Job Description

Role Summary

This role is ultimately responsible for maintaining the site, buildings and vehicles and to lead the delivery of small site projects which often involves supporting teams of both team members and Volunteers.

Key tasks

Note that this may be subject to change and can be delegated where appropriate although this role retains overall responsibility for areas identified below

Maintenance Responsibilities Site

To maintain all site access tracks

To manage grassed areas and hedgerows as dictated by area usage requirements and environmental management plan

To ensure the overall site is of a good appearance, aiming to improve all aspects on an ongoing basis.

Maintenance Responsibilities Buildings

To monitor and replace consumables - i.e. lightbulbs within facilities

To monitor and repair minor damage, breakages within site facilities, coordinating repair/replacement with supporting staff

To comply with all relevant H&S requirements; Scheduled Fire Checks (Alarms, Exits, Equipment), Gas Service Checks (Annually), Water supply, servicing testing and Legionella checks.

To monitor and service waste facilities, septic tanks and rubbish bins/areas[AR1]

Activity equipment maintenance

To coordinate with mainstream coordinators the repair and replacement of activity equipment and infrastructure as required.

Vehicle maintenance

To coordinate with the Centre Manager, ongoing safety checks, repair and cleaning of vehicle fleet as required

Project Work

To deliver site and grounds projects aligned with overall site development, repairs and renewals strategy.

Overarching Responsibilities:

To adhere to Health & Safety regulations

To ensure all expenditure is fully authorized and managed within agreed budgetary constraints.

To coordinate ongoing maintenance support (Volunteers) and paid staff team when allocated to support.

To lead bespoke teams of Volunteers to support site projects and when aligned with client focused programs [AR2]

To ensure that safety is never compromised and equipment appropriately managed to ensure untrained/supervised clients, staff/volunteers are not exposed to any risk

To remain efficient in the use of resources and to seek to reduce waste and always recycle.

To keep up to date COSHH information

Key holder, duties to include.

Responding to call outs regarding site issues, i.e. power failure (Additional hours to be paid in addition to agreed working patterns)

Form a positive relationship with the core of the charity and support the delivery of session with young people with an emphasis on site maintenance and grounds work as part of their normal activity provision.

Create positive relationship with volunteer groups to enable lead or self led projects around the site safely as appropriate.

Create and foster a positive relationship with all staff to enable them to support with maintenance of the site though supporting staff reporting, delegating tasks, coordinating projects and training people to work safely with tools and operations as per the NOP.

Administration

Collaborate with senior managers to ensure all required administration is completed to keep compliant with the relevant regulations.

Maintain workflows set by senior management to internal keep records up to date.

Respond to Maintenance reports from staff promptly and maintain records

Other

Due to the varied and ever-changing nature of operations at BF Adventure you may be required to undertake additional roles, responsibilities and tasksas necessary to facilitate the smooth running of activities
*(within your level of experience, training and capability)

Due to the varied and ever-changing nature of operations at BF Adventure you may be required to undertake additional roles, responsibilities and tasksas necessary to facilitate the smooth running of activities
*(within your level of experience, training and capability)

Person Specification

Experience / Skills

Excellent people skills

Be honest and reliable

Be able to work independently

Be motived and driven

Have good communication skills

Commitment to high standards and excellent customer service

Broad experience in maintenance with good industry skills or equivalent (Ideally 5 years) to include:

Handy man skills, minor repairs

Grounds keeping skills

Simple electrical skills, replacement of fixture and fitting of small electrical appliances

experience of routine ground works

simple carpentry- maintaining and constructing decking, hand rails etc.

experience of simple plumbing systems for basic maintenance and repairs

Project management experience (related to role)

H&S qualifications; Fire Warden, Risk assessment, Chain saw operator, Working at heights, Manual handling, Plant operator (As appropriate to tasks/project work undertaken)

What next:

Please complete the Application Form and the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

These forms can be found on our website. You can either use the online version or

the Word format

If you choose the Word document, please save the Application Form in the following format:

Your name_Post applied for_date.

Please email the form to jobs@bfadventure.org with the email subject Adventure

Centre Manager Application

The closing date for applications is 1/12/25 (or when all available vacancies have

been filled)

Interviews are scheduled to take place on a case-by-case basis for applications that meet the threshold to be invited to interview though a scoring process. Please be.

aware that only applications made using the BF Adventure application form (online

or word format) will be scored.

Please do not hesitate to phone us on 01326 340809 if you have any questions.

Many thanks for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!

BF Adventure is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post will require an enhanced DBS check.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 23,004.00-24,495.00 per year

Expected hours: 21 per week

Benefits:

Additional leave Free parking On-site parking Sick pay
Work Location: In person