Porter Kingston upon Hull, England
Job description
This post requires an enhanced clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service for Adult & Child Workforce.
The University of Hull is operating in an increasingly complex, challenging and competitive environment.
We have therefore developed a renewed, ambitious and distinctive vision for the University – to shape a fairer, brighter, carbon-neutral future for all. The vision gives us a shared sense of purpose and direction, and something we can be all proud to be a part of.
Our values – inclusive, empowering and progressive reflect who we are and how we work to create a culture for success, as we continue to evolve to ensure that we adapt at pace to meet the needs of our Students, collaborators and partners.
It is an exciting time for the team, as we drive improvements in compliance, efficiency, customer service and performance as well as creating the opportunity to gain competitive advantages through our activity-underpinned by a significant investment in the Estates in conjunction with a full modernisation programme across the team’s systems and processes.
Campus Porter is a critical role in the Infrastructure Services Directorate. The Infrastructure Services Directorate offers a range of services including Estates Management and Development, Maintenance, Car Parking, Cleaning, Portering and Security services. The directorate is responsible for a range of over 71 University buildings both academic and residential totalling over 150,000 square metres over a 108 acre site. Portering sits within a multi-disciplinary team of security and portering services reporting to a Senior Facilities and Security Services Technician, and managed overall by the Facilities and Security Services Manager.
The Infrastructure Services Directorate are looking for an enthusiastic, customer focused individual who enjoys physically active work where no two days are the same. Duties include stock and furniture movement; carrying out basic maintenance; internal and external cleaning operations; sorting and delivering post; supporting the security team; ensuring buildings and property are secured, providing good customer care; car parking assistance; waste management, helping to ensure efficiency of service and ensuring health & safety guidelines are met.
Reporting to the Facilities and Security Services Senior Technician, the post holder will be responsible for undertaking Portering duties to agreed timescales and standards. Alongside daily tasks, staff across the University make requests for Portering and this requires the post holder to be organised and customer focused.
The post holder must hold a full UK car driving licence.
The working pattern is currently Monday to Friday alternating on a weekly basis across an early week and a late week as follows;
Early: 07:00 – 15:00
Late: 13:30 – 21:30
Flexibility with regards to hours of work to support business needs is required and there may be an opportunity for additional hours.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact:
Week days – John Findlay | [email protected] | Facilities and Security Services Manager | 07515 187526
