About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced mechanical or building services professional looking for a role where your technical expertise can make a real difference?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical to join our Estates team, helping to ensure that the buildings, plant, equipment and essential services that support patient care remain safe, reliable and effective.
This is a varied and technically challenging role. You will undertake complex fault diagnosis, repairs, servicing, planned maintenance, inspections and condition surveys across a wide range of mechanical, building services and associated systems.
You will also supervise and support Estates Assistants, helping to ensure planned and reactive maintenance is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard. As an experienced member of the team, you will share your technical knowledge with colleagues and contractors and promote compliance with health and safety requirements and safe working practices.
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Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone with a recognised apprenticeship or formal period of training in mechanical, electrical engineering or building services, together with a relevant qualification to HNC/HND or NVQ Level 4, or equivalent training and experience. You will have a good understanding of health and safety requirements within a technical environment and be committed to developing your skills further.
Professional development is an important part of this role. You will undertake specialist training and a technical assessment process to enable you to act as a Competent Person in areas including:o Healthcare Low Voltageo Healthcare HVACo Healthcare Medical Gaseso Healthcare/MOD Mechanical Services
The post forms part of a 24/7 shift arrangement, providing essential out-of-hours cover and responding to emergency breakdowns involving patient-critical services.If you are a practical problem solver with strong technical skills, enjoy working as part of a team and are keen to develop your expertise within a complex healthcare Estates environment, we would be delighted to hear from you.
About us
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.
Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.
If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies.
- Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or recognised formal period of training of at least three years duration in a mechanical/electrical engineering/building services environment.
- Attainment of a formal qualification in building services/mechanical/electrical engineering to the level of:- HNC/HND (NVQ 4)
- Relevant experience to graduate. Professional level or equivalent training and experience
- Awareness of current Health & Safety Legislation and related issues such as PPE, Safe Use of Tools, Confined spaces, Manual Handling etc.
- Awareness of specific safety regulations as these may apply to building services or major items of equipment.
- Willingness to undertake further skills/competence training as may be required to fulfil the required the changing demands of the post
Desirable
- Supplementary specialist training building services or mechanical systems such as:- Water Regulations Boiler Operators Certificate Industrial Gas Safety and safety issues such as:- COSHH Risk Assessments PUWER Asbestos Regulations Legionella Precautions
- Knowledge and effective use of up to date test/diagnostic equipment..
- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Building Services Engineering
- Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration
- Safe use of access equipment training
- Manual Handling/lifting training.
- Basic First Aid - Dealing with Electric Shock
Experience
Essential
- To have considerable post qualification experience in a maintenance environment which involves building services/mechanical plant.
- Able to demonstrate current knowledge regarding the safe operation of steam boiler plant; the principles of effective combustion and water treatment regimes
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate experience of subsidiary building systems such as BMS controls, pneumatic systems, domestic hot water etc
Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a good knowledge of a range of complex mechanical and electrical building services plant and equipment including pumps, fans, compressors, air conditioning etc, and relevant fault finding techniques in relation to that plant
- Must demonstrate knowledge and experience of a range of mechanical installations, operating methods and systems including heating, ventilation & boiler plant etc
- Awareness of safe systems of work, risk assessment techniques and safe working practices in connection with major plant and building systems including Permit to Work systems
- Is familiar with approved modern methods of installation and testing in relation to mechanical services and systems including water, heating, compressed air and steam
Desirable
- A wide knowledge of plant and equipment used within a building services environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
AGH Solutions Ltd
Address
Airedale General Hospital
Skipton Road
Steeton
BD20 6TD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://aghsolutions.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)