Join Our Team as a Senior Maintenance Operative! ️Location: Tralee V92Salary: €16.00 per hourAre you an experienced maintenance professional with leadership skills?We’re looking for a Senior Maintenance Operative to oversee and support our facilities at Tralee.If you enjoy managing maintenance tasks, supervising teams, and ensuring everything runs smoothly, this is the perfect role for you!In this role, you’ll provide management continuity and act as the main point of contact with the client when the Facilities Manager is off-site. You’ll complete all required training and maintain your PSA licence to ensure compliance. Respond swiftly to reactive tasks on site to meet contract SLAs and carry out daily inspections of critical systems like plant machinery, heating, ventilation, lighting, and plumbing—reporting faults into our Helpdesk. ️You’ll coordinate work activities, supporting the quality plan and sustainability goals for the project. Ensuring all documentation for contractual and legislative compliance is up to date and available for inspection is key. You’ll also be responsible for securely storing equipment, materials, and chemicals, and maintaining them properly. ️Supporting subcontractors is a vital part of your duties—you’ll provide inductions, supervise permit-to-work requirements, and escort subcontractors when needed. You’ll perform general repairs, assemble and install furniture and fixtures, and reconfigure rooms based on requests. Conducting routine inspections to identify potential issues early and escalating them to the Helpdesk will be part of your proactive approach.In addition, you’ll assist with managing access by replacing lost or damaged keys and card fobs, passively monitor CCTV, and conduct regular discreet patrols both externally and internally in the absence of the Security Officer. Your leadership ensures the safety and smooth operation of the site.What we’re looking for: A valid PSA licence, Safe Pass, and Legionella training are preferred. The ideal candidate is experienced, proactive, and capable of supervising maintenance tasks and managing multiple responsibilities effectively. If you’re ready to take on a senior role in a dynamic environment and lead maintenance operations, we want to hear from you! Apply now and be part of our dedicated facilities team!Enjoy a competitive hourly rate and the opportunity to grow your skills in a supportive setting!Why Sodexo?Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.Belong in a company and team that values you for you. Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.Thrive in your own way.We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing supportAn extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeingAccess to a 24hr virtual GP ServiceSodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailersSave for your future by becoming a member of the Pension PlanOpportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development toolsBike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fitSodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policiesA little more about Sodexo:At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all.As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer.We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer.We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil theiraspirations.We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.Ready to be part of something greater?Work with the best in the business.Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications
