Facilities and Estates Technician

We want you to feel inspired every day. We’re future-focused and our business is growing. We succeed together through passion, commitment and teamwork, and so can you.

We are currently recruiting for a Facilities and Estates Technician to join the Facilities team. The purpose of this role is to carry out facility fabric repairs and grounds maintenance.

Our Facilities teams lead various buildings and infrastructure changes across all our workplaces. This includes external and internal redevelopment projects, equipment maintenance and repairs while ensuring our premises remain secure, safe and clean for our employees to work.

Your responsibilities in this role would be:

• To investigate, analyse and repair faults and maintenance across all sites, respond to breakdown, fault and service request calls, and assist other tradesmen in completing diagnostic work and carry out any remedial work.
• Plan, schedule and perform preventative and corrective maintenance across the estate.
• Ensure the facility and environment remains safe and secure by both reporting and completion of Health and Safety improvements.
• Build fabric maintenance through consistent repairs and maintenance of the building fabric, fixtures and fittings.
• Perform routine landscaping and grounds maintenance across the estate. Including, but not limited to, weeding, leaf clearance, trimming hedges and litter picking.
• Movement and installation of furniture when required for events, or site moves and changes.
  
  

We are looking for:

• Previous hands-on work experience in a similar role.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.
• Happy to be self-sufficient throughout the day.
• Possession of a full and clean driving license.
  
  

About Us:

OXB is a quality and innovation-led viral vector CDMO with a mission to enable its clients to deliver life changing therapies to patients around the world. One of the original pioneers in cell and gene therapy, we have more than 25 years of experience in viral vectors; the driving force behind the majority of gene therapies.

OXB collaborates with some of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, providing viral vector development and manufacturing expertise in lentivirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV) and adenoviral vectors. OXB’s world-class capabilities span from early-stage development to commercialisation. These capabilities are supported by robust quality-assurance systems, analytical methods, and depth of regulatory expertise.

What’s in it for you:

• Highly competitive total reward packages
• Wellbeing programmes
• Development opportunities
• Welcoming, friendly, supportive colleagues
• A diverse and inclusive working environment
• Our values are: Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, Respect
• State of the art laboratory and manufacturing facilities
  
  

We want you to feel inspired every day. We’re future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and teamwork, and so can you.

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