Maintenance Operative – Painting

Job Description

Job Title: Maintenance Operative – Painting

Reports to: Facilities Manager

Department: Operations

Hibernian Football Club prides itself on maintaining the highest standards across all its facilities, ensuring Easter Road Stadium and associated sites remain safe, professional, and welcoming for supporters, staff, players, and visitors.

To support this commitment, Hibernian is recruiting a Maintenance Operative with specific skills in painting to join the Operations Team. The successful candidate will play a key role in the upkeep and presentation of the stadium and facilities, carrying out painting and decorating work to a high standard while contributing to the overall maintenance and appearance.

• To Maintain the interior and exterior fabric of club buildings at Easter Road Stadium and at the Hibernian Training Centre.
• Primary focus on painting and decorating of public areas of stadium bowl, general areas, offices, function suites and training centre.
• Supporting the Stadium Staff on the general repairs around the Stadium and Training centre.
• Undertaking duties as assigned or emergency tasks such as shovelling snow and gritting in the winter.
• To carry out and complete all works to a high standard, in a competent manner and to leave the site of works in a clean and tidy condition.
• To liaise with other staff and external contractors in a positive and cooperative manner and as necessary to ensure the timely and proper completion of works to support reasonable operational expectations.
• To ensure appropriate and timely completion of all paperwork, job/time sheets and certification and its recording within established archive and filing systems.

Other Responsibilities

• To participate as a member of keyholder service for the stadium taking turns in opening and closing the stadium on event days.
• To carry out matchday duties to provide a safe environment for the operation of a professional football match alongside the club’s safety team.
• To always act in accordance with the Club’s rules, policies, procedures, and ethos.

Whilst the job description attempts to cover the main duties and responsibilities of the post it is not exhaustive. The postholder is therefore expected to undertake any other reasonable duties within their capabilities and the scope of the post as specified by their line manager.

Person Specification

• Skilled General Maintenance Person.
• Experience in Painting and Decorating.
• Willing to work unsociable hours weekends and evenings when required.
• Excellent time keeping, honesty and reliability.
• The ability to work as part of a team and use own initiative.
• Full and Valid UK Driving Licence.
• Safe use and operation of machinery.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working within building maintenance.
• Prepared to work in adverse weather conditions.
• Committed and enthusiastic approach to work.

Hibernian FC is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Hibernian FC is also committed to the safeguarding of vulnerable groups.

Skills for the job

Building Maintenance Flexible Working Machinery Operation Painting and Decorating

Benefits

• 34 days annual leave (including public holidays)
• 2x Tickets for all Home Hibernian Fixtures
• Death in Service Insurance – 4x salary
• Pension – NEST