Maintenance Technician/ Maintenance Engineer

Priority Care Group; Dundee; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

Job summary

Priority Care Group is seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician / Maintenance Engineer to join our Estates Team in Dundee. The role covers reactive and planned maintenance across our care homes and properties, with a van provided and support from a Senior Maintenance Technician.

You will be multi-skilled, hands-on, and capable of diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, and coordinating with contractors.

Qualifications

• Practical maintenance/building experience.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Experience in care homes or healthcare is useful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• General reactive building maintenance and repairs.
• Planned preventative maintenance (PPM).
• Basic plumbing repairs and joinery.
• Doors, locks, ironmongery and furniture repairs.
• Electrical, heating and mechanical fault reporting.
• Fire door inspections and remedial works.
• On-call shift as part of Estates Team on-call rota.
• Maintaining maintenance records and signing off work.

Skills

Multi-skilled

Hands-on

DIY

Problem-solving

Organised

Job description

Priority Care Group is looking for an experienced, practical and reliableMaintenance Technician / Maintenance Engineer to join our Estates Team.

This is a permanent, full-time position working across our care homes and associated properties in Dundee, Angus and Perthshire.

You will work alongside ourSenior Maintenance Technician as part of an established estates team, helping us maintain safe, well-presented and well-functioning environments for our residents and staff.

Please Note: Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK.

The role

This is a varied, hands-on position covering both reactive and planned maintenance across our properties.

No two days will necessarily be the same. You could be repairing a door or plumbing fault in the morning, carrying out planned compliance checks in the afternoon, or working alongside contractors on a larger estates project.

Typical responsibilities will include

• General reactive building maintenance and repairs
• Planned preventative maintenance (PPM)
• Basic plumbing repairs
• Joinery and general building repairs
• Doors, locks, ironmongery and furniture repairs
• Minor decorating and making good
• Basic fault finding
• Identifying and reporting electrical, heating and mechanical faults
• Fire door inspections and associated remedial works
• Routine health & safety and compliance checks
• Emergency lighting and other scheduled estates checks
• Monitoring plant rooms and building servicesResponding to maintenance requests from Home Managers
• Completing maintenance records and signing off completed work
• Identifying when specialist contractors are required
• Liaising with approved contractors where appropriate
• Supporting larger planned maintenance and improvement projects
• Maintaining good standards of presentation throughout our properties

Properties covered

The Dundee/Tayside Estates Team currently provides maintenance support to:

• Harestane Care Home – Dundee
• St Columba’s Care Home – Dundee
• Magdalen House – Dundee
• Priority Care Head Office – Dundee
• Meigle Country House – Meigle
• St Vigeans Care Home – Arbroath

Drumdarroch Care Home in Insch has its own dedicated full-time maintenance person and is not part of the normal day-to-day workload for this position.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for someone who is genuinelymulti-skilled and hands-on.

You don’t necessarily need to come from one particular trade, but you should have good practical experience in property or building maintenance and be comfortable dealing with a wide variety of everyday maintenance issues.

Experience in any of the following would be particularly useful:

• Joinery
• Plumbing
• General building maintenance
• Facilities or estates maintenance
• Care home, healthcare, hotel or similar multi-site environments
• Planned preventative maintenance
• Building compliance and safety checks

You should be able to assess a problem, work out the most sensible solution and complete repairs to a good standard.

Just as importantly, we’re looking for someone who is organised, dependable and comfortable working around residents and staff.

Working as part of the Estates Team

You will work closely with ourSenior Maintenance Technician, with both engineers having their own company van and working across the estate.

The wider team also includes dedicated painting/decorating and grounds maintenance personnel.

We deliberately operate the maintenance engineers independently for much of the working week rather than having two people travelling together unnecessarily. This allows us to provide better coverage and visibility across our homes.

For larger jobs, projects or tasks requiring two people, the engineers work together.

On-call

The role will also participate in the Estates Team’sshared out-of-hours on-call rota, providing emergency maintenance support outside normal working hours.

On-call is shared across the wider maintenance team rather than being the responsibility of one individual.

Separate standby and call-out arrangements apply.

What we offer

• Permanent full-time employment
• 37.5-hour working week
• Monday to Friday working pattern
• Salary: TBA depending on experience
• Company van
• Varied multi-site working environment
• Support from an experienced Senior Maintenance Technician and Estates Manager
• Established network of specialist contractors
• Opportunity to become an important part of the wider Estates Team
• A role with genuine variety and autonomy

Essential

• Previous practical maintenance/building experience
• Good general DIY and repair skills
• Ability to work independently and manage your own workload
• Good fault-finding and problem-solving ability
• Reliable and organised approach
• Comfortable working in occupied care environments
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience within care homes or healthcare would be useful but is not essential.

We’re much more interested in finding someone with the right practical ability, attitude and willingness to take ownership of their sites.

Pre-employment checks

APVG disclosure check will be carried out for the successful candidatebefore employment is confirmed. The appointment will also be subject to satisfactory references and any other required pre-employment checks.

Location:

Dundee, with travel throughout Dundee, Angus and Perthshire

Hours:

37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday

Salary:

TBA depending on experience

Vehicle:

Company van provided

Contract:

Permanent, full time