Maintenance Officer

Help keep our buildings safe, compliant and welcoming — and make a real difference. Maintenance Officer Salary: £25,887 - £27,385 per annum (dependent on experience) Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week Contract: Permanent Location: Roving role - Sites across the North East & Cumbria About us Groundwork NE & Cumbria is a long‑established environmental and community charity with over 30 years of experience creating greener, healthier and more resilient places across the region. Our mission centres on Creating Better Places, Improving People’s Prospects, and Promoting Greener Living, helping communities thrive no matter the challenges they face. We deliver hundreds of locally‑led projects each year, including initiatives that support young people into education, training and employment, helping them overcome barriers, build life skills, and reach their full potential. About the role As a Maintenance Officer, you’ll be at the heart of our operations, playing a key role in maintaining the buildings and sites across the North East and Cumbria. You’ll be responsible for carrying out routine maintenance, conducting repairs, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Job Purpose Are you a practical, hands‑on professional who takes pride in keeping buildings safe, compliant and well maintained? We’re looking for a reliable and proactive Maintenance Officer to help ensure our sites remain welcoming, functional and safe for everyone who uses them. This varied role combines day‑to‑day reactive repairs with planned maintenance, safety checks and contractor coordination, offering the opportunity to make a visible, positive impact through your skills every single day. Key Responsibilities * Regular maintenance and upkeep jobs * Small scale emergency repairs * Legal compliance checks * Facilitating specialist contractor works * Administration, using basic IT digital recording systems, Outlook Emails Who We’re Looking For * Relevant trade qualifications or experience in building maintenance, facilities management, or a related field * Strong knowledge of health and safety practices * Ability to manage multiple tasks effectively * Excellent communication and problem-solving skills * A proactive approach to site maintenance and compliance * Ability to work both independently and as part of a team Closing date: Wednesday 13th May 2026 Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application. Interested? If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position. We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract. No agencies please