Maintenance Technician - Plumbing

NHS Property Services Ltd; Biggleswade; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A government health services provider in Biggleswade is looking for a maintenance professional to support building services maintenance across the NHS. The role involves delivering both planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring operational standards are met, and maintaining site log books. Candidates should have experience in fault finding, minor repairs, and the ability to assess complex problems. Excellent organisational skills are required.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess problems and determine the best course of action, including complex technical issues.
• Experience in fault finding, minor repairs or installations, and maintaining services.
• Ability to plan and organise complex activities in a changing work environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned and reactive maintenance services ensuring operational standards.
• Maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises.
• Support the Projects/Construction team in delivering minor capital works.

Job description

Overview

The key function is to support NHS Property Services in delivering building services maintenance and repairs across the NHS to ensure buildings are maintained to the highest standards and to provide a safe and secure environment for visitors, customers, and employees. Ensure compliance in line with all processes/procedures and policies that meets organisational standards/requirements including but not limited to our Health & Safety Policy/HTMs (Health Technical Memoranda) and SFG20. Ensuring new or revised policies are implemented within own work areas. Deliver planned and reactive maintenance services from the PPM planner, ensuring that operational standards are maintained at all times.

Responsibilities

• Duties may include (but not limited to) fault finding, minor repairs or installations and maintaining services and equipment within critical environments.
• Ability to assess problems to determine the best course of action, this would include complex technical issues.
• To maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Work with and support the Projects/Construction team and Technical Supervisor in identifying, scoping, and delivering minor capital works for NHS premises.
• Able to plan and organise a number of complex activities and adapt within a changing and challenging work environment.

Company background

Established in April 2013, the company is a limited company but also part of the wider NHS family. Having inherited responsibility for the facilities and property management functions previously managed by NHS primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, we own and run properties that range from listed buildings and former workhouses through to award-winning, state-of-the-art integrated health campuses. Our aim is to deliver a fit for purpose estate in partnership with NHS organisations, generating cost efficiencies that will benefit our tenants, patients and the wider health economy.