Facilities Technician

Job Description

Facilities Technician

Onsite, Tervuren

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About the job

The Facilities team is looking for a Facilities Technician to support the upkeep, repair, and preventive maintenance of SAS Tervuren facilities and grouds, ensuring a safe, efficient, and well-functioning workplace. Our team plays a critical role in creating an environment where employees can do their best work by maintaining the spaces, systems, and infrastructure that keep our operations running smoothly.

This is a hands-on opportunity to make a visible impact every day while building your technical skills across a variety of maintenance activities. You'll work alongside experienced professionals, solve practical challenges, and help create a safe and reliable workplace for everyone who walks through our doors.

As a Facilities Technician, you will:

• Respond to maintenance requests promptly and professionally, ensuring a safe, functional, and welcoming workplace environment.
• Perform preventive maintenance and general building repairs across facility systems, structures, equipment and grounds.
• Support the upkeep and preservation of a listed historic building, surrounding grounds and carrying out maintenance activities with care and attention to heritage considerations.
• Support the administrative side of facility operations by maintaining records, tracking maintenance activities, coordinating vendors, managing supplies, and ensuring documentation is accurate and up to date
• Coordinate with external vendors and contractors, helping to schedule, oversee, and follow up on facility-related services and projects.
• Assist with building security responsibilities, including monitoring facility access, supporting security procedures, and addressing site-related concerns as needed.
• Support organizing office events, internal moves, furniture and equipment relocations, and workspace reconfigurations to meet evolving business needs.
• Deliver excellent customer service to employees and visitors by communicating effectively, providing updates, and ensuring maintenance issues are resolved to a high standard.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in maintenance or equivalent role.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work and work independently when required.
• Experience in building maintenance, facilities operations, or site and grounds maintenance.
• The ability to perform (or have performed) general repairs, preventative and corrective maintenance on the facilities in a safe, secure and effective way in a professional workplace environment.
• Experience working with vendors and contractors, including coordinating and monitoring work activities.
• Customer-focused mindset with excellent communication and service skills.
• Ability to work at heights using ladders, lifts, other elevated access equipment and perform physical tasks, including moving equipment, furniture, and supplies.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.

• Authenticity: Gaining other people’s trust by demonstrating openness and honesty, behaving consistently, and acting in accordance with moral, ethical, professional, and organizational guidelines.

• Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills: Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical, functional, and/or professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise; leveraging expert knowledge to accomplish results.

• Familiarity with building security, access control, or site safety procedures.

• Affinity in preserving and maintaining historic, heritage or listed buildings and grounds.

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