AddressWorking Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 4:30pm (early finish on Fridays)
Location: Based at Portdown but will also support Portsdown West
Salary: Competitive
VIVO, a 50:50 joint venture between Serco and EQUANS, has been awarded places on the Defence FM and Housing Maintenance framework contracts.
VIVO embodies both experience and innovation. It combines Serco’s comprehensive track record delivering engineering, technical and FM services to the UK MOD for over 55 years with EQUANS’ market leading FM, energy, asset optimisation and regeneration capabilities.
Could you be our next Permit Control Officer working across DSTL Porton Down and Portsdown West?
You will l be supporting operations with guidance and solutions to ensure work activities of VIVO employees and subcontractors are completed in a safe manner. You will ensure that we are compliant with current regulations and adhere to Safety Operating Procedures held within VIVO and its parent companies.
Working alongside the Health & Safety Team and Technical and Operations Support Teams you will responsible for ensuring the service delivery solutions, providing support with any Health & Safety requirements to meet preventative planned maintenance, reactive maintenance, and Billable Works requirements ensuring records are maintained.
This role will see you carry out Accident/Incident investigations and ensure lessons learned are realized and achievable, encouraging a continuous improvement culture.
Within this role you will also carry out scheduled and unscheduled inspections of work activities across the estate, taking appropriate action where needed.
What you’ll need to do this role
Using your previous experience safety advisory roles, you will be a confident communicator to ensure our high standards are maintained.
Holding your NEBOSH General Certificate is essential, and it is desirable that you hold your NEBOSH Construction Certificate and P405 – Asbestos Management but they are not essential.
This role will require you to travel to remote sites weekly therefore it is essential that you hold a clean and valid UK driving licence.
It is desirable that you have experience of operating within an MOD environment and have familiarity with geography and establishments within area of responsibility
Due to site security restrictions you must be a British National and be able to pass SC Clearance to be considered for this role.
What we offer
Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
25 Days annual leave
Volunteer leave
Established reward and recognition scheme
One paid professional subscription
Life Assurance Policy
Employee discount and reward schemes
Interesting, varied, and enjoyable work
A company that recognises your contribution
Training opportunities and qualifications within a supportive environment to ensure career progression
Don’t meet all of the job requirements, but like the sound of us and the projects we work on? Get in touch anyway! Equal Opportunities; Accelerating gender equity is our core mission at Women in Defence UK, therefore we are an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team.
VIVO Defence Services
The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.
At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.
We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Employer. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. If candidates wish to request extra time to apply then they should contact 0345 010 4000 and ask to speak to a VIVO Recruiter.
