Overview
Estates Maintenance Technician Electrical – Join Our Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust!
Are you skilled, hands-on, and eager to support the vital work of the NHS? Rotating Shifts (including on-call). Play a Key Role in Maintaining Our Hospitals – Join Our Estates Team!
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and hardworking Estates Electrical Maintenance Technician to support the smooth operation of our hospital facilities. This role is essential in ensuring a safe, efficient, and well-maintained environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
What You’ll Do
* Carry out skilled maintenance tasks across hospital sites
* Conduct plant room checks and monitor essential systems
* Carry out engineering maintenance and repair work
* Ensure compliance with safety and operational standards
What We’re Looking For
* Skilled electrician able to work in a healthcare environment
* Ability to work as part of a team and follow instructions
* Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail
* Willingness to learn and develop within an NHS Estates team
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. In addition to general hospital services, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a wider area. We have three main hospitals: Frimley Park (Frimley), Heatherwood (Ascot), and Wexham Park (near Slough).
Our three core values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future – guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in how they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other. We also host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park, with military personnel working alongside NHS staff.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
DIMENSIONS OF JOB: To be responsible for the service, testing and diagnose repairs needed to plant and equipment, including ordering parts and fitment within the trust buildings and plant. Calibrate advanced mechanical and electrical installations including electronics. Understand, interrogate and rectify faults on the Building Management System. Participate in an on-call system and provide late shift cover and stand in for leave and sickness. Safe operation of plant and systems, steam, water treatment and electricity.
Purpose Of Job
Assist the Estates Supervisor with all aspects of PPM and SPM to provide a safe, compliant environment for staff and patients.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
1. Carry out maintenance and minor works on engineering plant, equipment and services.
2. Act as lead for direction and guidance with regard to mechanical services for other craftsman within the department.
3. Carry out all duties in a safe and compliant way.
4. To assist/advice personnel in relation to Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM, SPM) issues within the lead role.
5. Be self-motivated and take control of any breakdown/repairs, ordering new parts and keeping the team leader and supervisor updated with progress.
6. Keep training and registration up to date with regard to current standards and amendments.
7. To advise other department managers regarding small electrical/mechanical improvement/project works and assist with budget costs for work under his/her supervision.
8. Time-manage work and actively record times to enable the department to meet the Trusts set Tasks per man for ten hours.
9. Liaise with departmental managers regarding shutdowns and interruption to service for works to be carried out by direct labour or contractors.
10. Participate in the department’s on-call.
11. Be available to work outside normal working hours.
12. Be actively involved in the training and development of staff including apprentices.
13. Participate in the trust appraisal system.
14. Ensure an effective and responsive approach to customer care.
15. Carry out condition reports and report back with written report on plant and equipment to enable management to forecast backlog spend.
16. Understanding of HTMs 01, Decontamination, 03 Heating and Ventilation, 04 Water Systems.
17. Cross-site working (mobile) between Frimley Health owned and managed sites.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ equivalents 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
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
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
Special Requirements
* 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.
Skills
* Good IT skills
* Ability to cope with demanding scenarios
* Good organisational skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems
* A dedicated and committed member of a team
* Customer service skills
* Ability and willingness to undertake emergency-situation repairs
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