Job Title: Academy Security & Maintenance Operative
Location: Cardiff City Academy – Llanrumney
Salary: £12,584 – £13,728 dependant on qualifications and experience
Job Type: Part Time – Permanent
Hours: 22 hours per week across 3 x shifts, including evening work & one weekend shift
Job Purpose
The Security and Maintenance Operative is responsible, through the Academy Operations Manager, for a wide range of duties and responsibilities connected with the security and maintenance of the Cardiff City FC Academy Training Centre.
Main Duties
Security
- Attend to the opening and closing of the site at designated times and be responsible for all general security matters during work hours
- Ensure only authorised personnel enter Cardiff City areas and perform regular security patrols
- Meet and attend to all contractors visiting or working on site ensuring the contractor control logbook is completed
- Receive deliveries and ensure vehicles and personnel are adequately supervised
- Identify potential security risks and respond to emergencies and incidents promptly
- Perform Fire Marshall duties as required
- Work with training ground staff to ensure all lights and air conditioning/heating systems are turned off at the end of each working day
- Maintain security of field-based training sessions ensuring only authorised personnel enter Cardiff City training areas
- Provide security cover on all home match days at Llanrumney
Maintenance
- Inspecting the building, including heating, cooling, lighting and alarm systems to make sure they are in good working order
- Report defects in buildings, furniture, and fittings to the Academy Operations Manager
- Undertake minor repairs to fixtures and fittings and conduct minor works, including painting, to improve the training ground environment
- Regularly check the condition of fire equipment and fire alarms and ensure emergency exits are not obstructed
- Keep the paths, access points and entrances to Cardiff City areas clean and free from rubbish, moss, snow, and ice
- Periodically clean light diffusers and fly traps, taking account of instructions given on cleaning at heights
- Where agreed, perform specified cleaning duties as determined by the Academy Operations Manager
- Be conversant with the Health and Safety policies relevant to the post including those relating to manual handling, working from height, control of legionella and fire safety
- Organising and logging information regarding water management, pest control, waste management and energy usage
General
- From time to time, support the Stadium maintenance team
- Undertake other reasonable duties as requested by the Academy Operations Manager
- Take responsibility for your own health, safety, and welfare, ensuring compliance with Cardiff City Football Club’s Health and Safety Policy, Safeguarding procedures, and safe systems of work
- To undertake all reasonable training, learning and development activity designed to support you in your role.
- To be responsible for your own behaviour and act in a manner that avoids and discourages any form of discrimination or harassment; to comply with Cardiff City Football Club’s Equal Opportunities Policy
Person specification
Essential
- FA Safeguarding children certificate
- Enhanced Level DBS clearance
- First Aid Certificate
- Manual handling qualification
- Previous experience in a similar role
- A good understanding of health and safety regulations in the workplace
- Excellent practical DIY and painting skills
- IT literate with the ability use basic Microsoft Office programs to maintain logs and databases
- Effective communication skills
- A proactive hands-on approach to facilities management
- Ability to work under pressure, be flexible and react to different scenarios
Desirable
- Health and Safety Qualification
- Previous experience working as a caretaker in a school environment
- Previous experience working in a sporting environment
Equality Statement
Cardiff City Football Club promotes equal opportunities in employment we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Safer Recruitment Policy
Cardiff City Football Club operates a ‘safer recruitment policy’ and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appropriate reference checks and Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks form a significant part of this recruitment process.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Labourer, Site Hand, Groundworks, Excavation, Groundworker, Drainage, Site Worker, Site Operative, Labour, Site Worker, Multi-Skilled Operator, Skilled Labourer, Skilled Trades, Multi Trade, Worker, Landscape Gardener, Landscape Operative, Experienced Groundworker, Landscape, Landscaper, Garden, Grounds, Ground Maintenance Operative, Garden Project Management, Grounds Worker, Grounds maintenance team members may also be considered for this role.
