Estates Maintenance Technician - Mechanical

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Dewsbury; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Estates Maintenance Technician (Mechanical) to maintain and improve mechanical building services across our healthcare estates in Wakefield and Kirklees. The role covers planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding, and installations to heating, ventilation, water systems, and plant.

You will work with clinical and non-clinical teams, use BMS systems, and follow HTMs and safety procedures to keep patient care uninterrupted.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, fault finding, and installation work across a wide range of mechanical engineering systems, plant, and equipment.
• Plan and organise workload in collaboration with clinical and non-clinical departments to minimise disruption to services.
• Diagnose complex mechanical faults using specialist tools and testing equipment, implementing safe repairs.
• Respond promptly to urgent and emergency maintenance issues, ensuring critical services are restored quickly and safely.
• Communicate effectively with staff and service users, providing clear updates on maintenance activities and impact on operations.
• Operate and utilise the Trust's Building Management System (BMS) and other digital systems, undertaking training as required.
• Work safely at all times, assessing risks and ensuring the safety of patients, visitors, colleagues, and contractors.
• Comply with statutory regulations, NHS guidance, HTMs, Permit to Work procedures, and the Trust's quality management systems.
• Undertake Authorised Person/Responsible Person/Nominated Person duties in specialist areas such as Water Safety or Pressure Systems, following training.
• Support the delivery of estates projects and contribute to continuous improvement of our Estates service.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mechanical technician who takes pride in delivering high-quality maintenance and engineering services and wants to make a real difference within the NHS. Working across a diverse healthcare estate, you will undertake a wide range of planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, fault finding, installation, and improvement works on mechanical building services, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water systems, medical gas infrastructure, and associated plant and non medical equipment. As an Estates Technician (Mechanical), you will have the opportunity to apply your technical expertise to complex engineering challenges, support the delivery of estates projects, mentor colleagues and apprentices, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our Estates service. You will play a vital role in ensuring our mechanical infrastructure operates safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with statutory requirements., As an Estates Maintenance Technician (Mechanical), you will:

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, fault finding, and installation work across a wide range of mechanical engineering systems, plant, and equipment.
• Plan and organise your workload in collaboration with clinical and non-clinical departments to ensure work is completed efficiently and with minimal disruption to services.
• Diagnose complex mechanical faults using specialist tools and testing equipment, implementing safe and effective repairs.
• Respond promptly to urgent and emergency maintenance issues, ensuring critical services are restored as quickly and safely as possible.
• Communicate effectively with staff and service users, providing clear updates on maintenance activities and any impact on operational areas.
• Operate and utilise the Trust's Building Management System (BMS) and other digital systems, undertaking training as required.
• Work safely at all times, assessing risks and ensuring the safety of patients, visitors, colleagues, and contractors while carrying out maintenance activities.
• Comply with statutory regulations, NHS guidance, Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), Permit to Work procedures, and the Trust's quality management systems.
• Undertake Authorised Person, Responsible Person, or Nominated Person duties in specialist areas such as Water Safety, Pressure Systems, or other disciplines, following appropriate training and competency assessment.
• Every day, our healthcare buildings rely on safe, efficient, and reliable mechanical systems to support the delivery of outstanding patient care. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Estates Maintenance Technician (Mechanical) to join our Estates Team and help ensure our hospitals and healthcare facilities remain safe, compliant, and fully operational for patients, visitors, and staff.
• We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
• We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.