Maintenance Technician

NHS National Services Scotland; Airdrie; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

35 days annual leave

Annual incremental salary progression

Paid sick leave increasing with length

NHS discounts

Job summary

NHS Lanarkshire is seeking a skilled estates technician to maintain building services, plant and equipment across NHS facilities. You will diagnose faults, repair engineering, electrical and building services and assist in ensuring statutory compliance.

Experience in estates environments, a driving licence, and a willingness to develop specialist skills such as complex air conditioning are required. This role offers NHS pension, generous annual leave, and progression opportunities.

Qualifications

• Completion of apprenticeship in Mechanical or Electrical Bias plus an HNC or equivalent, with SVQ level or equivalent training.
• Experience of working in an estates service environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of current statutory legislative requirements.
• Experience of inspecting and planning work related to PPM and Reactives.
• Ability to develop additional skills through training in specialist areas such as complex air conditioning systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain NHSL’s mechanical, electrical, plumbing and building services plant and fabric assets to a high standard.
• Diagnose, report and repair defects to ensure statutory compliance.
• Plan and prioritise daily workload and material management; ensure documentation and sign-off.
• Provide technical expertise for safe and efficient building services operations.

Job description

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

To maintain a range of buildings services, plant and equipment, which can sometimes be complex and non-routine by diagnosing and repairing faults as they occur.

Maintain NHSL’s mechanical, electrical plumbing, associated building services plant and building fabric assets to a high standard.

This will include the planning and prioritising on a day-to-day basis of their workload and material management requirements to include documentation, completion and sign off.

In this key role, you will:

The post holder will provide technical expertise when required including operating and maintaining safe and efficient systems of work for all building services.

Diagnose, report and repair defects in engineering, electrical and building services to ensure statutory compliances are adhered to and maintained such as water management, low voltage and pressure/water system/heating ventilation and air condition systems.

Understand the working of building services and engineering systems in NHS buildings.

Undertake minor alterations and modifications to existing building systems and services in accordance with appropriate protocols and procedures. E.g. Safety valve going in a boiler – the post holder would have the required skills and training to assess the situation using their own initiative, act in an appropriate safe manner.

What You’ll Bring:

• Completion of apprenticeship in Mechanical or Electrical Bias plus an HNC or equivalent, with additional non-core training qualification at SVQ level or equivalent.
• Experience of working in an estates service environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of current statutory legislative requirements.
• Experience of inspecting and planning working in relation to PPM and Reactives.
• Postholders are also required to develop additional skills through training provided in other specialist areas e.g. Complex Air Conditioning systems as evidenced throughout the Job description. Such systems require additional theoretical knowledge in order to understand their function and complexity.
• Multiple additional courses are evidenced via training records that current Postholders have been required to undertake and maintain to ensure legislative compliance and can be made available upon request.
• A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence. delete if not required

What we Offer

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Ross Hogg, Senior Operations and Specialist Maintenance Manager on [e-mail].

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Anna Zastawnik-Baran, Recruitment Administrator on [e-mail].

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.