Maintenance / Fabric Technician

TN United Kingdom; Bridgend; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Maintenance Technician/Fabric Engineer to join their facilities maintenance team in Bridgend. This role involves delivering high-quality planned and reactive maintenance services across multiple client sites. Ideal candidates will possess a diverse skill set in building fabric maintenance, including carpentry and general repair work. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth and development, along with a competitive salary and a range of attractive benefits. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional service and have the required experience, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

4% bonus

Van and fuel card

Smartphone and tools

Group personal pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Training Sponsorship Scheme

Discounts at Nuffield Fitness

Qualifications

• Time served experience across multiple trades in a building fabric role.
• Valid UK driver’s license and strong customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventive and reactive maintenance services.
• Ensure client sites are fully maintained and operating efficiently.

Skills

Building Fabric Maintenance

Carpentry

Patch Plastering

General Repair Work

Strong Communication Skills

Education

NVQ in Building Trade

City and Guilds Certification

BTEC in Building Trade

Tools

Handheld IT Equipment

PPE

Job description

Maintenance / Fabric Technician, Bridgend

Client:

Arcus FM

Location:

Bridgend, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

4b865fa2d1b6

Job Views:

4

Posted:

02.04.2025

Expiry Date:

17.05.2025

Job Description:

Overview: Do you live in or around the Bridgend area? Are you an experienced Maintenance Technician / Fabric Engineer? If so we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting in our facilities maintenance team, where you will be delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our multi-site clients.

Salary: £29,244 or £32,618 per annum, depending on experience

Door to door pay

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Additional earnings available through overtime

4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)

Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card

Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

If you have a full valid UK driver’s license, time served experience of multiple trades, and want to progress your career with an award-winning FM provider then read on…

Responsibilities:

You’ll be responsible for ensuring clients sites within your area are fully maintained and operating at full potential. As an Arcus Fabric Specialist, you’ll enjoy working in a varied environment. You’ll be out and about on the road traveling to client locations throughout your area, delivering a high level of repair works and rectifying any defects to ensure our clients receive a high-quality service. You will assist in the delivery of excellent customer service resulting in professional results, asset uptime, first time fix and quality workmanship.

We need you to come with experience of working in a building fabric / maintenance role previously, and with the skills and expertise to confidently and independently, carry out as many of the below tasks as possible:

1. Patch Plastering/Rendering Protection where required
2. Carpentry works
3. Various floor coverings
4. Wall Tiling
5. General Repair work
6. Changing lights and locks

Whilst we don’t need you to know it all, we do need you to have varied experience across a mix of the above trades. At Arcus we are passionate about retaining our top talent and love to promote from within, giving you the opportunity to either gain qualifications and/or experience in other areas of the business if that’s what you want.

Qualifications:

To be successful you will have:

Essential:

• Time served experience across a mix of multiple trades, ideally in a building fabric role.
• Valid UK driver’s license
• Experience working within a customer facing environment
• Confident using handheld IT Equipment for managing works and documentation
• Strong communication skills and work ethic.
• Awareness and knowledge of health & safety.

Desirable:

• NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC in a building trade
• Experience working within a maintenance remit for a multi-site retail client.

Other benefits:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%.
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

Other Information:

The role will involve working 40 hrs per week, Monday to Friday

The role will also involve working 1 in 4 weeks on call

At Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in-house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross-skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self-delivery capability.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed, please submit your application by clicking on the ‘apply’ button.