We're recruiting for a Maintenance Technician to join a busy Estates team supporting a large acute healthcare estate in Dorset.
Working across a complex hospital environment, you'll carry out planned and reactive maintenance on critical mechanical building services, helping to ensure essential facilities remain safe, compliant and fully operational. This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation investing heavily in its estate, with opportunities for overtime, specialist training and long-term career development.
The Role
As Maintenance Technician, you will:
Carry out planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding and repairs across a wide range of mechanical building services and plant.
Diagnose faults, complete installations and ensure critical equipment remains operational.
Provide technical support and guidance to colleagues, contractors and apprentices.
Carry out inspections, condition surveys and ensure compliance with Health & Safety and NHS engineering standards.
Participate in the emergency on-call rota and support the wider Estates team in maintaining a safe and reliable healthcare environment. You
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
A recognised mechanical or building services qualification, such as an apprenticeship, HNC, City & Guilds or equivalent.
Experience maintaining mechanical building services within a complex commercial, healthcare or industrial environment.
Strong fault-finding, repair and diagnostic skills across mechanical plant and equipment.
A good understanding of Health & Safety legislation and safe systems of work.
A full UK driving licence and willingness to participate in an on-call rota. It would also be advantageous if you have experience with:
Heating and ventilation systems.
Safe water systems.
Medical Gas Pipeline Systems (MGPS).
NHS estates or other highly regulated environments. What's in it for you?
Join an organisation investing significantly in its estate and engineering infrastructure while offering excellent long-term career prospects.
£30-£32 per hour.
Monday-Friday working pattern.
Overtime opportunities.
On-call allowance.
Ongoing training and professional development.
Opportunity to work across a large and technically diverse healthcare estate.
Long-term career opportunities within a well-established Estates team. Apply Now!
If you're an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Technician, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Building Services Engineer, Estates Technician or Mechanical Craftsperson, we'd love to hear from you.
To apply for this Maintenance Technician position, click 'Apply Now' and send your CV to Tom McClay.
Interviews are taking place now, so apply today to avoid missing out
Salary description
£30.00 - £32.00 per hour