About the role
A new opportunity has arisen for a Site Facilities Officer to join the Property Services Site Facilities Team primarily based at our headquarters, New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald, occasionally at a CCC office location in Histon, near Cambridge and regularly working at CCC’s sites throughout Cambridgeshire.
We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated professional to support the CCC Facilities Management and Property Services team. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring the preventative and reactive maintenance cycles, minor repairs, liaising with building contractors and the property services helpdesk, security of keys, building checks, overseeing visitor parking, collection and deliveries, working on the set-up of some corporate events and ensuring our buildings are safe, secure, clean, tidy and fit for purpose.
You will need to have some experience of working in a building facilities and customer service environment as part of a busy team. Ideally you will have undertaken some formal training in property and facilities related subjects covering the health and safety of yourself and others.
The successful candidate must be proactive and able to work under their own initiative, as well as contributing to team working. You will be an ambitious and innovative individual who is focussed on providing good customer service, with excellent communication skills to deal with customers and colleagues at all levels. A full driving licence and the ability to work flexibly are essential for this role.
Applications close on Monday 4th May 2026
For informal enquiries or a discussion about the job role, please contact our Facilities Manager, Richard Panter on 07584 490239 or by email at: Richard.panter@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or our Site Facilities Manager, Gavin Barber on 07823 553729 or gavin.barber@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
Overall purpose of the job
To monitor, manage and assist in ensuring that all CCC corporate properties are fit for purpose, are safe for our customers and staff to utilise daily and our contractors adhere to the internal processes set out within our service level agreements with specific attention to adherence to health and safety whilst working within an operational building.
- To check, oversee and carry out small building repairs, where possible and when required be responsible for budgetary expenditure to facilitate repairs.
- Monitor and oversee the cleaning, security, waste management and grounds maintenance contracts at all our corporate sites throughout the county for compliance to standards.
- Manage contractors while on site, assisting with agreeing site access and ensuring that internal processes are always adhered to ensuring safety and compliance within an operational working building.
- Audit and report on maintenance issues through the appropriate route
- Performance and Risk management issues are recorded requiring good IT skills to use the FM Concerto system.
To provide leadership and support to colleagues within Property on all matters relating to building maintenance, access, security, Councillor support and civic duties throughout the corporate Property Portfolio.
(main accountabilities are listed in the attached Job description)
About you
Qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience The ideal applicant will have good communication and organisational skills, the ability to work individually as well as part of a team. Full details of requirements for qualifications, skills and experience are detailed in the attached person specification. |
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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