Portering and Postal Services Assistant

About Role

The successful candidate will be part of the Portering and Postal Services Team and be required to provide a high service to Queen Mary’s buildings, such office and furniture move, bulky waste removal, dealing with couriers and other porterage and postal duties always looking to deliver a professional and customer focused service to staff, students, and visitors.

About You

Applicants should hold GCSE English or equivalent and have a good command of the English language both written and verbally. You will be required to be able to carry out manual handling tasks and good customer communication and care skills. This role requires experience working as part of a customer-focused team and knowledge of health and safety practices in relation to portering and postal tasks.

About the Directorate  

The Estates and Facilities Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the university and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the university’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness.    

Details about the Estates and Facilities Directorate can be found at:  

https://qmul.ac.uk/estates 

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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