Facilities Maintenance Technician

Within our Building Services department we are looking for a new Facilities Maintenance Technician to provide preventative and reactive maintenance across our Residential Campus.

In this role you will use your qualifications, skills and experience to carry out planned maintenance to help avoid issues and react to and rectify any faults across the campus.

You will work closely with the Residential maintenance management team, Mechanical team and members of the Residential maintenance office staff to schedule and prioritise jobs whilst also responding to any emergency situations on a day-to-day basis. As a Facilities Maintenance Technician you will use the University’s building management system (BMS) to monitor and record data from critical plant and equipment across the estate. You will also respond and attend to faults and alarms automatically generated by the system.

Building Services plays a key role in ensuring things work as they should for our staff and students. We aim to resolve any issues as quickly, safely and efficiently as possible ensuring customer satisfaction at all times. This role would suit an experienced mechanical fitter who is looking for a new, varied opportunity working with a friendly, supportive team.

You will be responsible for providing support to the DLO, liaising with contractors, investigating and rectifying mechanical faults to all of the University’s building services. You will identify whether it is possible to solve the problem yourself, or whether you need to escalate the issue to the Maintenance Manager.

The work is varied and can be unpredictable but examples of the day to day duties include:

Site visits with the mechanical team to support with various issues

Liaise with specialist contractors

Resolving local heating issues

Rectifying large and smaller heating system faults and failures

Investigating water leaks from sinks, roofs, pipes, basins, waste pipes, toilets, showers, or baths.

Investigating and repairing building drainage issues

Responding to ventilation faults and performance issues.

Fixing any hot and cold water generation and circulation issues.

Performing planned preventative maintenance tasks.

You have significant experience in the repair and maintenance of commercial building services. You will hold a recognised mechanical qualification such as City & Guilds level 2, Mechanical or BTEC, Level 2, domestic and commercial gas qualifications. You will also hold a full driving licence.

Alongside your technical skills and qualifications you will be a team player with excellent customer service skills who is able to manage your own workload. You will also have a logical approach to fault finding and problem solving.

Benefits of working in this role for the University include:

25 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)

Automatic entry to a generous pension scheme

A group of family friendly policies including generous maternity, adoption and surrogacy leave options, the ability to take paid shared parental leave, up to two weeks paternity/ partner leave, leave to support fertility treatment and paid dependents/ carers leave

Inclusive culture, valuing the diversity of thought, beliefs and background

Contract type: Open ended

Work pattern: Full time - 35 hours per week

Grade: H

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