Fabric Technician

ISS; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

ISS is seeking a customer-focused building fabric maintenance professional to perform planned and reactive maintenance across commercial assets. The role involves repairs to doors, flooring, ceilings, and minor external elements, with opportunities for carpentry and plumbing support.

Applicants should have hands-on experience in fabric repairs, strong communication, and solid housekeeping practices, along with capability to work within safety procedures and COSHH controls.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused professional with practical experience in commercial building fabric repairs and planned maintenance.
• Strong communication and housekeeping standards, plus safety procedure adherence.
• Competence with hand tools and portable power tools.
• Ability to recognise limits of own competence and elevate specialist electrical, gas, or structural work.
• IPAF and/or PASMA certification is required or preferred.
• Level 2 trade qualification or time-served multi-trade experience.

Responsibilities

• Complete planned and reactive fabric maintenance tasks across building assets.
• Carry out repairs to doors, ironmongery, partitions, ceilings, flooring, finishes and minor external building elements.
• Undertake minor carpentry, patch repairs, making good, basic plumbing support and general maintenance.
• Inspect building fabric and identify deterioration, water ingress, damage or safety defects.
• Diagnose faults and elevate residual risks or specialist requirements.
• Maintain safe access routes, fixtures and work areas, leaving locations clean, secure and serviceable.
• Follow risk assessments, method statements, permits, isolation procedures and COSHH controls.
• Maintain accurate work reports, asset records, test results, and follow-on actions.
• Support contractor control by checking competence and reporting non-conformance.

Skills

Communication skills

Housekeeping

Safety procedures

Hand tools

Power tools

COSHH

Risk assessments

Permits

Multi-trade experience

IPAF/PASMA

Education

Level 2 trade qualification

Tools

IPAF/PASMA certification

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Complete planned and reactive fabric maintenance tasks across building assets.
• Carry out repairs to doors, ironmongery, partitions, ceilings, flooring, finishes and minor external building elements.
• Undertake minor carpentry, patch repairs, making good, basic plumbing support and general building maintenance within your competence.
• Inspect building fabric and identify deterioration, water ingress, damage or safety defects.
• Diagnose faults accurately and elevate residual risks or specialist requirements in a timely manner.
• Maintain safe access routes, fixtures and work areas, ensuring locations are left clean, secure and serviceable.
• Follow approved risk assessments, method statements, permits, isolation procedures and COSHH controls.
• Maintain accurate work reports, asset records, test results, parts usage and follow-on actions within designated systems.
• Support contractor control activities by checking competence, monitoring work quality and reporting non-conformance.

Requirements

We are looking for a customer-focused professional with practical experience in commercial building fabric repairs, minor works and planned maintenance.

• You will demonstrate strong communication skills, maintain high standards of housekeeping, and work within approved safety procedures and controls at all times., Practical experience of commercial building fabric repairs, minor works and planned maintenance.
• Competence in the safe use of hand tools and portable power tools.
• Working knowledge of risk assessments, method statements, COSHH and permit controls.
• Ability to recognise the limits of own competence and elevate specialist electrical, gas, pressure-system or structural work.
• Strong customer-focused communication skills.
• Excellent housekeeping standards and accurate record-keeping.
• Level 2 qualification in a relevant trade, building maintenance, plumbing, mechanical services or a comparable discipline, or demonstrable time-served multi-trade experience.
• IPAF and/or PASMA certification.