Role: Buildings Maintenance Support Officer
Department: JES – Joint Estate Services
Scale: RLW
Salary: £25,950 - £26,703
Location: Priory Road HQ
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week (Full-Time) Monday to Thursday 0700-1500 Friday 0700-1430.
Flexibility Requirement: Candidates must be open to flexible daily working hours to meet the operational needs of the department. This may include adjusting start and finish times, providing cover during peak periods, or supporting colleagues during absences. Flexibility is essential to ensure consistent service delivery and effective team collaboration.
Contract: Permanent
Overall, Purpose of the role: To perform general driving duties and undertake a broad range of maintenance and handyperson duties, covering tasks surrounding logistics, reactive, statutory testing, planned maintenance, and grounds work. Provides support to all departments across the force area under the direction of the Building Maintenance Supervisor.
In addition, a significant element of the role with focus around undertaking grounds maintenance work across the joint estate, including grass cutting, weed removal, and maintenance of shrubbery and flower beds.
A full UK driving licence is essential, as occasional travel to other sites within the force area may be required to provide cover.
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertakes work as necessary in the repair and maintenance of service property including logistics, reactive, planned maintenance and grounds work.
- Investigates maintenance requests. Carries out minor repairs or makes an initial assessment of the situation and reports to supervision for attendance of contractor. Makes area safe and notifies staff and colleagues pending arrival of contractor and escorts contractors on site as requested.
- Undertakes proactive assessment of building condition both internal and external, undertaking preventative work where required in order to minimise building maintenance costs across the force area.
- Is proactive in the assessment of internal and external building conditions and upkeep, including security measures, taking appropriate action to notify of contractor requirements through the asset management system.
- Provides an audit service on maintenance testing programme in relation to legionella, emergency lighting tests, and PAT testing.
- Undertakes vehicle safety checks (e.g. oil, tyres water etc.) to ensure that DHP vehicles are safe and roadworthy and reports defects promptly. Maintains the cleanliness of the vehicles.
- Oversees fuel deliveries, passing fuel data to ESFM (Emergency Service Fleet Management) and undertakes fuel system re-boots as required
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
What the role requires:
- Excellent organisational skills
- Organisational skills with the ability to allocate resources, prioritise workloads, meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Experience of working in a confidential environment.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision when required.
- Have access to a vehicle and able to travel the force area.
- Holds a full UK Driving License
- Physical demanding job requires ability to lift
- Ability to prioritise workload.
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
Perks of working for Humberside Police:
From great perks, agile working and professional development, we want you to have the best possible journey throughout your Humberside Police Career.
Our Police Staff work extremely hard, which is why we are proud to offer a host of reward and recognition schemes. Whether it’s Cycle to Work scheme, Gym and health schemes, we have the perks ready for you to benefit from.
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Further Perks:
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Training and development opportunities
- Coaching & Mentoring Scheme
- Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
- Flexible/Hybrid working where applicable.
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Discount
- Access to the force’s onsite gyms
- Free on-site car parking
- Humber bridge tag (If travelling from the Southbank)
Pre – Employment Checks and Eligibility:
- Internal applicants MUST have completed a successful probationary period and tenure (if applicable) before applying for another role within the force.
- Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria of at least 3 years continuous residency in the UK to apply for roles with Humberside Police.
- Successful candidates will undergo a vetting procedure pre-requisite of employment. (Please note, with holding any information asked by the vetting department, may delay the vetting procedure, or result in your vetting been refused and the offer of employment been withdrawn)
- Tattoo’s will be reviewed as a part of the recruitment process to ensure we maintain a level of professional standards and to make sure the images do not cause offence or are unacceptable.
- Successful candidates may need to provide Biometric/Drug Testing/Samples for certain roles before commencing in the position due to the nature of the role.
Contact point for applicants:
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting@humberside.pnn.police.uk
How to apply for the role:
To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button below.
Please note, you must wait 3 months before submitting another application if you have applied for THIS role within the last 3 months.
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Closing Date: Sunday 19th July 2026 at 23:55
Interview date: TBC
It is not likely that closing dates will be extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and would need to be with the permission of the Recruitment Manager and Line Manager of the role.
The Recruitment Manager can authorise to close any vacancy before the closing date stated on the advert.
Attachments:
- Role Requirement
- Guidance for completing your application.
- Bank of Adjustments
- Preferred candidate roadmap
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