Facilities Industrial Placement

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

1/8/2025

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Facilities Industrial Placement (Graduate)

Heard of us?

We’re an ambitious, forward-thinking global business who build transformative solutions for our customers to deliver best-in-class sustainable mobility, connectivity and technology solutions. We support our customers with a range of products and services to meet their needs.

Since 1990 our ambition has never wavered. From humble beginnings, our vision and drive has seen us venture into new markets with confidence and stay ahead of market trends. Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes adapt to the future and take advantage of the opportunities that change brings. Sustainability is at the core of our offering. With our leading e-mobility solutions, we’re committed to guiding businesses through the energy transition, building solutions for a more sustainable, connected future.

This is where you come in. We are on a journey of growth. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of technology innovation and we invite you along on this journey.

Job Purpose

The Facilities Industrial Placement is really important to us. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on experience in a growing, busy Facilities department of a global company. Our Facilities placement is for students with a year in industry as a compulsory or optional element of their degree programme.

We would love to welcome you to our Crewe HQ, working hours of Monday-Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm.

We are looking for a graduate that can help and support over the following areas as the department continues to evolve. The main areas would be Facilities, Health and Safety, and large projects.

Facilities

• Liaising with external contractors and suppliers
• Diary and inbox management of the facilities account
• Maintain a filling system on contractors and suppliers
• Prepare reports and presentations for meetings
• Raising of purchase orders / authorisation and approval
• Logging and tracking daily workflows on in house system. Including problems that have been resolved on the our internal system to enable performance statistics to be compiled.
• Liaising with external contractors to ensure that open calls are actioned within the specified SLA and reporting exceptions
• Identifying alternative suppliers and obtaining competitive quotations for purchases. Assisting with new offices and projects, management of relocations of existing offices as required.
• Contract Management, renewal and Review - SLA’s and KPI’s
• Hard Services- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
• Soft Services - Cleaning, Copiers, Franking Machines, Water Coolers
• Reactive Works- Building fabric maintenance, fixtures and fittings repair
  
  
  

Health and Safety

• Ensure all Health and Safety audits are completed across the group and supported to include DSE
• Complete site-specific risk assessments and consider how risks can be reduced and incorporated
• Undertake regular reviews of policies, procedures and recommending changes where necessary
• Support in lead of quarterly Health and Safety meetings
• Identify Health and Safety training needs and source training for staff
• Ensure all relevant areas of the organisation are kept up-to-date with new/changes in Health & Safety legislation
• Travel to sites to support the Health and Safety in each individual office
  
  
  

Projects

• Involvement with major projects as they arise, supporting from start to finish collating data and implementing changes within the areas
• Support of administration within the café as and when required over the 12 month period
• Support the move into Arden Square once the build in completed
  
  
  

What experience / skills are we looking for?

• The ability to influence and develop relationships at all levels within the business;
• Excellent communication skills with a natural ability to build strong relationships;
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with a persistence to see issues resolved;
• Proactive and results orientated with the determination to see projects through from start to finish;
• Customer orientated and understands the urgency of replying to requests in a timely fashion;
• Full, clean driving license
  
  
  

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly culture that mirrors our proposition to our customers.
• A fast-growing organisation that defines itself as being agile and innovative
• A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A commitment to building a working environment that values inclusivity, innovation, agility, and drive.
  
  
  

Radius is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background

Department

HR & Facilities

Contract type

Fixed Term Contract

Hours

37.5 Monday- Friday

Salary

£25,000