Mobile Mechanical Technician

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join our Estates and Facilities team. You will maintain, repair and improve a wide range of mechanical plant, equipment and building services across our hospital sites to support safe, reliable patient care.

You will work with a skilled team, undertake planned and responsive maintenance, support water treatment and steam systems, and participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ in electrical installation/maintenance or equivalent experience.
• IT literate with good written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to undertake emergency-situation repairs and out-of-hours work.

Responsibilities

• Servicing thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs) and monitoring temperatures.
• Undertaking plumbing tasks, including sink and tap installations.
• Performing planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and statutory maintenance (SPM).
• Diagnosing faults and repairing engineering plant and equipment across hospital sites.
• Supporting water treatment and steam systems, with BMS troubleshooting.
• Maintaining accurate maintenance records and contributing to lifecycle planning.

Skills

IT Literate

Emergency-situation repairs

On-call duties

Travel between sites

Education

Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ in electrical installation/maintenance

ONC

IEE 18th Edition

Job description

Job Overview

Are you an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Technician looking for a rewarding role where your skills make a real difference?

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and skilled individual to join our Estates and Facilities team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the safe and effective operation of essential hospital infrastructure, helping to create an environment where outstanding patient care can thrive.

Working within a highly skilled team of engineering professionals, you will be responsible for maintaining, repairing and improving a wide range of mechanical plant, equipment and building services across our hospital sites.

Please note that this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the post.

Main duties of the job

As part of our Estates team, you will play a key role in ensuring that critical engineering systems remain safe, reliable and fully compliant.

You will play a vital role in ensuring our engineering systems, plant and equipment remain safe, reliable and compliant, enabling the delivery of exceptional patient care across the Trust.

Experience Or Knowledge Of The Following Would Be Advantageous

• HTM 01 – Decontamination
• HTM 03 – Heating and Ventilation
• HTM 04 – Water Systems
• Building Management Systems (BMS)
• Mechanical plant and building services maintenance
• Statutory compliance requirements and safe systems of work

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.

We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Servicing Thermostatic Mixing Valves (TMVs) and carrying out temperature monitoring.
• Undertaking plumbing tasks, including sink and tap installations.
• Performing planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and statutory planned maintenance (SPM).
• Diagnosing faults and carrying out repairs on a range of engineering plant and equipment.
• Supporting the operation and maintenance of critical hospital systems, including water treatment and steam systems.
• Troubleshooting and resolving faults on Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Calibrating and maintaining mechanical and electrical installations.
• Liaising with departments across the Trust to coordinate maintenance activities and minimise disruption.
• Producing technical reports and condition assessments.
• Assisting with engineering improvement projects and lifecycle planning.
• Maintaining accurate maintenance records and compliance documentation.
• Participating in the on-call rota and providing out-of-hours support when required.
• Supporting the development of apprentices and colleagues through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
• Working across Frimley Health sites as required.

We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.

Person specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ equivalents in Electrical Installation/Maintenance or equivalent experience.
• IT Literate
• Evidence of good written and communication skills for effective working relationships throughout the organisation.
• Ability to cope with demanding scenarios.
• Good organisational and communication skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems.
• Ability and willingness to undertake emergency-situation repairs.

Desirable criteria

• NHS experience
• Knowledge of HTMs

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ equivalents in electrical installation/maintenance or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• IEE 18th Edition
• Gas Safe registered/ trained
• ONC
• Water bylaws
• Lift Trained
• Nurse call systems trained
• BMS Understanding/ qualification
• Hydro pool trained
• Decontamination control, trained (autoclaves)
• Medical gas trained

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Be available for out of hours/on-call duties
• Be able to travel between Trust sites when required
• Be able to work overtime at short notice.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Prior experience in an engineering service
• Experience in training colleagues in an Estates department
• Experience working in the building trades
• Experience working in large industrial/commercial environments
• Experience in the maintenance of engineering service and fault finding within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation.

Desirable criteria

• Service within the field of maintenance, focus on service supply, problem solving keeping the client informed.
• Problem solving BMS systems
• Experience working in an Acute Hospital Environment
• NHS experience

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.