Hospital Mechanical Technician — On-Call Maintenance

The Methodist Church in Britain; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Mechanical Technician to support safe installation, operation, and maintenance of hospital building services. The role includes on-call duties and involvement in estates projects, with opportunities to lead and train others.

You will bring NVQ4/HNC or equivalent, ILM 4, and IOSH Safe Working practices, with substantial hands-on mechanical experience in a hospital or similar environment.

Qualifications

• HNC, NVQ4 or equivalent.
• ILM Level 4 or equivalent.
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Carry out and supervise the safe installation, operation, maintenance and repair of mechanical building services.
• Work through mostly non-routine procedures and practices across the Trust's mechanical services.
• Carry out installation, reactive and preventative maintenance, fault diagnosis, repairs, modifications and calibration.
• Respond to emergencies, acting promptly and safely where failure could cause serious injury, damage or loss of life.
• Join the out-of-hours on-call team supporting the Trust.
• Take on nominated specialist Estates roles such as Authorised Person or Person in Charge for specific areas.
• Support specific projects or tasks.
• Coach, train and develop other team members.

Skills

Commercial mechanical building

Maintenance management

MS Office

Education

HNC/NVQ4

ILM Level 4

IOSH Managing Safely

Tools

Micad IPR

Planet FM

Building Management Systems (BMS)

Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Mechanical Technician to support safe installation, operation, and maintenance of hospital building services. The role includes on-call duties and involvement in estates projects, with opportunities to lead and train others.

You will bring NVQ4/HNC or equivalent, ILM 4, and IOSH Safe Working practices, with substantial hands-on mechanical experience in a hospital or similar environment.