Mechanical Engineer | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a skilled mechanical service provider to support their Engineering Department. You will be responsible for maintenance, supervision of apprentices, and ensuring compliance with technical specifications. Excellent benefits include NHS pension, training opportunities, and health programs. This role offers a chance to work in a vital healthcare environment.

Benefits

NHS Pension Scheme

Interest free Season Ticket Loan

Long Term Service Awards

Subsidised childcare vouchers

Comprehensive health programme

Qualifications

• Experience with mechanical or electrical building services.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Undertake further training as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide mechanical service to the Engineering Department.
• Carry out planned maintenance on Trust assets and engineering systems.
• Mentor junior staff in core subjects.

Skills

Mechanical service provision

Ability to organise workload

Training and mentoring

Technical communication

Education

Relevant vocational training or certification

Tools

Computer software for reports

Specialist engineering equipment

Job description

The post holder will provide a mechanical service to the Engineering Department and other directorates within Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). They will demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by the engineering team.

Ability to organise and prioritise own workload where required and work unsupervised and independently.

The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Carries out the responsibilities of a CP for Ventilation Systems.
• Responsible person duties for Legionella.
• Confined Spaces.
• When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets.
• Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
• Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with standby emergency generators and large industrial boiler plant, programmable logic controllers and other computerised building control systems.
• Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment.
• Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers.
• Carries out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all of the Trust assets and engineering systems.
• The duty holder (authorised person) takes responsibility for the engineering services on site whilst on duty.
• Deputises for the Team Manager in their absence.
• Responsible for the personnel management when deputising for the team manager.

Management & Leadership

• Regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects.
• Coach and mentor for other junior staff, i.e. apprentices and maintenance assistant.

Financial Responsibility

• Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust.
• Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.

Information Management

• Produces engineering plant reports using computer software, including the management and storage/retrieval of information and records.
• Reviews all capital schemes with respect to compliance and maintainability.
• Communicates technical information with specialists and non-specialists.
• Communicates technical issues to non-clinical staff in emergency situations.
• Communicates instructions, directs, mentors and guides junior staff to support their personal development.
• Works from technical specifications and drawings associated with building services plant and equipment.
• Interpret and work from instruction, drawings and specifications, drawings and specifications without supervision.
• Carry out complicated analysis of test results to ascertain the equipment meets its operating parameters during plant annual validations.
• Ensure all policies complied with and knowledge translated to the staff and monitored effectively.
• Implement revised or newly introduced operational procedures for plant and equipment.

Education and Professional Development

• Undertake training as and when required to obtain, maintain and develop skills and knowledge base.
• Be able to learn and adapt to new techniques, embrace training and provide written and verbal instruction to staff and colleagues on all aspects or their work.

Benefits

• The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan.
• Long Term Service Awards.
• Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers.
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme.
• Ride to work scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Free stop smoking service.

Our Trust values are Put patients first, Take pride in what we do, Respect others, Strive to be the best, Act with Integrity.

If you would like to join the team, please apply online.

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Oct 2025.