Scientific Services Make Ready Assistant

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REED is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions.

We are recruiting for a vehicle administrator to support the local police force with the preparedness of its fleet of vehicles used by crime scene investigators (CSI).

As a Scientific Services Make Ready Assistant you will support the operational deployment of CSI’s and crime scene managers by preparing, cleaning, and maintaining vans and managing the movement of equipment and consumables across SSD.

Responsibilities include:

• To prepare the CSI vehicles for use by maintaining the minimum stock levels of consumables, as well as ensuring they are equipped with the appropriate kit.
• To ensure that the stores are stocked of consumables to the minimum requirement at the designated Scene of Crime office.
• To perform interior and exterior cleaning of CSI vehicles as well as performing periodic deep cleans as required.
• To maintain records of all CSI vehicle cleans performed within the QMS.
• To perform environmental monitoring tasks.
• To maintain an audit trail of consumables by electronically recording/updating the movement of stock from stores to the van.
• To be responsible for hard copies of procedures within the van and updating when new versions are issued.
• To perform routine maintenance/calibration activities on equipment when required, and to update the corresponding asset records.
• To report any faults with equipment and organise replacement/repair.
• To perform stock checks/rotations in the stores and vehicles to ensure stock with the shortest expiry dates are utilised first, and any damaged/out of date stock is removed.
• To provide an administrative support service to all Crime Scene Investigators, including data inputting
• To give regular and effective service.

Skills and experience necessary

• Ability to follow set procedures and processes.
• Work alone for long periods.
• Physically fit to clean vehicles and move equipment around.
• Manual driving licence.

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This is a temporary, full-time role, paying £12.00 per hour PAYE with a duration of 5 – 6 months.

These roles will require police vetting and employment checks as part of the recruitment process. 

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