Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist (Grade D)

NHS; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the NHS as an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist at Airedale, where you'll handle complex maintenance and supervise a team. This vital role involves ensuring compliance with safety standards while tackling technical issues and performing condition surveys across our facilities.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering required.
• Completion of a three-year apprenticeship in a relevant field.
• Awareness of current Health & Safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Undertake maintenance tasks on complex systems.
• Supervise Estates Assistants for repairs and maintenance.
• Provide training on health and safety and technical issues.

Skills

Knowledge of complex mechanical and electrical building services

Fault finding techniques

Effective combustion and water treatment

Education

HNC/HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration

Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level

Job description

We are looking for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist to join us at Airedale as part of our AGH solutions team.

Main duties of the job

To undertake a multi skilled technician role to carry out highly complex maintenance tasks, detailed fault diagnosis, repairs, service, condition surveys and inspection of complex building, mechanical, electrical, gas equipment, associated systems, plant and equipment of a complex/non-routine nature in accordance with relevant standards and operational procedures and statutory regulations.Supervise a team of Estates Assistants to ensure delivery of repairs and planned maintenance tasks in line with key performance indicators to a high quality standards.Provide training to maintenance staff and contractors covering technical issues and communicate health and safety requirements to staff, patients and contractors to ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures.Successfully achieve the specialist training qualification followed by a technical interview process to be appointed and act as the organisations "competent person" in the following areas:

Cover a 24/7 shift pattern to provide cover to attend to out of hours emergency breakdowns of patient critical services.

About us

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.

Job responsibilities

For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.

If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies.
• Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or recognised formal period of training of at least three years duration in a mechanical/electrical engineering/building services environment.
• Attainment of a formal qualification in building services/mechanical/electrical engineering to the level of:- HNC/HND (NVQ 4)
• Relevant experience to graduate. Professional level or equivalent training and experience
• Awareness of current Health & Safety Legislation and related issues such as PPE, Safe Use of Tools, Confined spaces, Manual Handling etc.
• Awareness of specific safety regulations as these may apply to building services or major items of equipment.
• Willingness to undertake further skills/competence training as may be required to fulfil the required the changing demands of the post
• Supplementary specialist training building services or mechanical systems such as:- Water Regulations Boiler Operators Certificate Industrial Gas Safety and safety issues such as:- COSHH Risk Assessments PUWER Asbestos Regulations Legionella Precautions
• Knowledge and effective use of up to date test/diagnostic equipment..
• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Building Services Engineering
• Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration
• Safe use of access equipment training
• Manual Handling/lifting training.
• Basic First Aid - Dealing with Electric Shock

Experience

• To have considerable post qualification experience in a maintenance environment which involves building services/mechanical plant.
• Able to demonstrate current knowledge regarding the safe operation of steam boiler plant; the principles of effective combustion and water treatment regimes
• Able to demonstrate experience of subsidiary building systems such as BMS controls, pneumatic systems, domestic hot water etc

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate a good knowledge of a range of complex mechanical and electrical building services plant and equipment including pumps, fans, compressors, air conditioning etc, and relevant fault finding techniques in relation to that plant
• Must demonstrate knowledge and experience of a range of mechanical installations, operating methods and systems including heating, ventilation & boiler plant etc
• Awareness of safe systems of work, risk assessment techniques and safe working practices in connection with major plant and building systems including Permit to Work systems
• Is familiar with approved modern methods of installation and testing in relation to mechanical services and systems including water, heating, compressed air and steam
• A wide knowledge of plant and equipment used within a building services environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Estates Helpdesk & Mobility Engineering Manager