Facilities Maintenance Technician

University of Bristol; West of England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Family friendly policies

Inclusive culture

Job summary

University of Bristol is seeking a Facilities Maintenance Technician to provide preventative and reactive maintenance across our Residential Campus. You will use your mechanical qualifications and experience to plan and carry out maintenance to prevent faults and rectify issues across the campus.

You will work with the Residential maintenance management team and contractors to schedule jobs, respond to emergencies, and use the Building Management System (BMS) to monitor and record data from

Qualifications

• Significant experience in repair and maintenance of commercial building services.
• Ability to work as part of a team and deliver good customer service.
• Logical approach to fault finding and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the DLO and liaise with contractors.
• Investigate and rectify mechanical faults across the University’s building services.
• Elevate issues to Maintenance Manager when needed.
• Site visits with mechanical team to support issues.
• Liaise with specialist contractors and resolve heating issues.
• Repair building drainage and ventilation issues as required.
• Respond to faults and alarms from the BMS and monitor critical plant.

Skills

Commercial building services

Team player with customer service

Fault finding

Education

City & Guilds Level 2 (Mechanical)

BTEC Level 2 (Mechanical)

Gas qualifications (domestic & commercial)

Job description

Within our Building Services department we are looking for a new Facilities Maintenance Technician to provide preventative and reactive maintenance across our Residential Campus.

In this role you will use your qualifications, skills and experience to carry out planned maintenance to help avoid issues and react to and rectify any faults across the campus.

You will work closely with the Residential maintenance management team, Mechanical team and members of the Residential maintenance office staff to schedule and prioritise jobs whilst also responding to any emergency situations on a day-to-day basis. As a Facilities Maintenance Technician you will use the University’s building management system (BMS) to monitor and record data from critical plant and equipment across the estate. You will also respond and attend to faults and alarms automatically generated by the system.

Building Services plays a key role in ensuring things work as they should for our staff and students. We aim to resolve any issues as quickly, safely and efficiently as possible ensuring customer satisfaction at all times. This role would suit an experienced mechanical fitter who is looking for a new, varied opportunity working with a friendly, supportive team.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for providing support to the DLO, liaising with contractors, investigating and rectifying mechanical faults to all of the University’s building services. You will identify whether it is possible to solve the problem yourself, or whether you need to elevate the issue to the Maintenance Manager.

The work is varied and can be unpredictable but examples of the day to day duties include:

• Site visits with the mechanical team to support with various issues
• Liaise with specialist contractors
• Resolving local heating issues
• Rectifying large and smaller heating system faults and failures
• Investigating water leaks from sinks, roofs, pipes, basins, waste pipes, toilets, showers, or baths.
• Investigating and repairing building drainage issues
• Responding to ventilation faults and performance issues.
• Fixing any hot and cold water generation and circulation issues.
• Performing planned preventative maintenance tasks.

You should apply if

You have significant experience in the repair and maintenance of commercial building services. You will hold a recognised mechanical qualification such as City & Guilds level 2, Mechanical or BTEC, Level 2, domestic and commercial gas qualifications. You will also hold a full driving licence.

Alongside your technical skills and qualifications you will be a team player with excellent customer service skills who is able to manage your own workload. You will also have a logical approach to fault finding and problem solving.

Benefits of working in this role for the University include:

• 25 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)
• Automatic entry to a generous pension scheme
• A group of family friendly policies including generous maternity, adoption and surrogacy leave options, the ability to take paid shared parental leave, up to two weeks paternity/ partner leave, leave to support fertility treatment and paid dependents/ carers leave
• Inclusive culture, valuing the diversity of thought, beliefs and background

Additional information

Work pattern: Full time - 35 hours per week

Grade: H

School/Unit: Campus Division - Building Services

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on: Monday 16th November

For informal queries please contact: Joe Collins ( Maintenance Manager - Residences Zone) on [e-mail]

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