Mechanical Technician

Pay: 33,879 - 37,296 per annum inclusive of London Weighting.

Hours: Mon-Fri 8am to 4pm

About Us:

A world-class university with a dedicated department responsible for maintaining reactive, planned, and compliance services across the campus for all staff, students, and visitors.

About the Role:

Responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance throughout university buildings, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory, and statutory compliance requirements. Ensuring records of planned and reactive maintenance are kept up to date and to a high standard.

The role will have responsibility for the operational performance and safety of buildings at all times and will liaise with specialist sub-contractors, other building dedicated engineers, and clients to maintain high-quality service delivery and maximum system uptime.

The Mechanical Technician will be expected to optimize and analyze performance, whilst problem-solving and offering creative solutions.

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts, and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Manage and conduct fault finding.
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client-specific environmental, health, safety, and quality standards applicable to the university environment.
• Minimize the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability-centered and conditioned-based proactive maintenance process.
• Required to participate in a rostered 24-hour on-call system providing emergency service during non-working hours, at weekends, and bank holidays.
• To undertake training and qualify as Authorised / Responsible / Competent Person as required.
• To undertake such other duties appropriate to the level and character of work as may reasonably be required within the department.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer-focused service and participate in training when required.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria:

1. Level 3 award/certificate in mechanical field or equivalent or time-served apprenticeship (Mechanical) and strong, demonstrable competencies in mechanical trades.
2. Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance, and repairs.
3. Good understanding and experience of meeting health and safety obligations regarding maintenance activities.
4. Good communicator including good verbal communication.
5. Ability to work from an iPad to manage work through our CAFM system and IT literate (Excel, Teams, and other Microsoft packages).
6. Team player and flexible attitude, attention to detail, and strong problem-solving skills.
7. Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests.

Desirable Criteria:

1. First Aid.
2. Knowledge and understanding of working in critical environments.
3. IOSH Working Safely.
4. BMS knowledge.