Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical (Grade D)

AGH Solutions Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

AGH Solutions Ltd. seeks an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical to service and maintain hospital estate systems in a demanding healthcare setting.

You will diagnose faults, undertake repairs and carry out planned maintenance across mechanical and building services, ensuring reliability and compliance with safety standards. You will also supervise Estates Assistants and contribute to continuous professional development, including progressing as a Competent Person in Healthcare Low

Qualifications

• Experience in mechanical/building services environments.
• Ability to diagnose faults across complex systems.
• Understanding of health and safety in technical settings.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and repair faults across mechanical and building services.
• Carry out servicing, planned maintenance, inspections and surveys.
• Supervise Estates Assistants and ensure safe, efficient maintenance.
• Develop knowledge to act as Competent Person in Healthcare areas.

Skills

Mechanical

Building services

Fault diagnosis

Planned maintenance

Health & safety

Education

HNC/HND

NVQ Level 4

Job description

Are you an experienced mechanical or building services professional looking for a role where your technical expertise can make a real difference?, We have an exciting opportunity for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical to join our Estates team, helping to ensure that the buildings, plant, equipment and essential services that support patient care remain safe, reliable and effective.

This is a varied and technically challenging role. You will undertake complex fault diagnosis, repairs, servicing, planned maintenance, inspections and condition surveys across a wide range of mechanical, building services and associated systems.

You will also supervise and support Estates Assistants, helping to ensure planned and reactive maintenance is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard. As an experienced member of the team, you will share your technical knowledge with colleagues and contractors and promote compliance with health and safety requirements and safe working practices.

We are looking for someone with a recognised apprenticeship or formal period of training in mechanical, electrical engineering or building services, together with a relevant qualification to HNC/HND or NVQ Level 4, or equivalent training and experience. You will have a good understanding of health and safety requirements within a technical environment and be committed to developing your skills further.

Professional development is an important part of this role. You will undertake specialist training and a technical assessment process to enable you to act as a Competent Person in areas including:

• Healthcare Low Voltage
• Healthcare HVAC
• Healthcare Medical Gases
• Healthcare/MOD Mechanical Services

The post forms part of a 24/7 shift arrangement, providing essential out-of-hours cover and responding to emergency breakdowns involving patient-critical services.If you are a practical problem solver with strong technical skills, enjoy working as part of a team and are keen to develop your expertise within a complex healthcare Estates environment, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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.