Junior Technical Support Engineer (Mechanical)

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A large NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Junior Technical Support Engineer to provide support for medical equipment across multiple hospital sites. This role requires a minimum of HNC in Mechanical or Operations Engineering, a full UK driving licence, and relevant experience. You will be responsible for the maintenance and repair of medical devices and will ensure compliance with operational standards. This position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working opportunities

Annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC in Mechanical/Operations/Mechatronics Engineering required.
• Experience in mechanical maintenance and repair preferred.
• Full clean UK driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist technical knowledge for management of medical devices.
• Support compliance levels for medical device repair and maintenance.
• Work towards efficiency in medical equipment operation across sites.

Skills

Proactive and adaptable

Excellent interpersonal skills

Good numerical skills

Organizational skills

Education

HNC in Mechanical/Operations/Mechatronics Engineering

Job description

Junior Technical Support Engineer (Mechanical)

The closing date is 27 January 2026

The Medical Device Service support users of medical equipment across all of our hospital sites within the Northern Care Alliance.

You will have a key role in supporting the department's responsibility for the maintenance, repair and sub‑contractor management of medical equipment. This will include first‑line support to users of medical equipment to optimise system uptime to gain maximum use of medical equipment.

Ideally, you will possess a minimum of HNC in Mechanical or Operations, or Mechatronics engineering and have relevant experience since qualifying in the field of medical equipment. Knowledge in the application and repair of a wide range of medical equipment used in a hospital and community is essential, although some specific training will be provided.

Consideration may be given to applicants with reduced knowledge and skills, who follow a personnel development programme on a reduced grade.

Please note that, for this post, you will be required to have obtained a full UK driving licence

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist technical knowledge for the implementation and delivery of a long‑term operational plan for cost‑effective and efficient management and deployment of safe medical devices across the care organisations.

They will be working towards achieving compliance levels for medical device repair and maintenance, including downtime, and ensuring that systems are available to enable clinical teams to have insight into progress with maintenance and repair of their devices.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values – care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work‑life balance.

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HNC (level 4/5 BTEC) minimum in Mechanical / Operations / Mechatronics Engineering
• Full clean UK driving licence

Skills

• Motivated, proactive, adaptable and flexible to meet the needs of the service
• Positive attitude towards change and its implementation
• Literate to transfer information onto a computer system and standardised departmental documents
• Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written, as well as communications skills to liaise with all disciplines, both on the phone, in‑person and in writing
• Good numerical skills, ability to analyse data and make appropriate recommendations
• Proven organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload with interruptions and changing priorities, while working as part of a team

Experience

• Experience of successfully working within tight time frames and to deadlines, able to demonstrate the ability to plan and work to these scales, contributing to the provision of an efficient and timely service to the trust
• Previous work in a field of mechanical maintenance and repair. Knowledge in the application and use of a wide range of medical devices across the complexity spectrum
• Range of supplier approved training on the servicing and repair of biomedical equipment used in hospitals

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.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust