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As part of our growing Engineering team, we are seeking a Fabric Technician to support the delivery of building fabric maintenance and repair services at our client site in Warton, Lancashire.
This role covers a wide range of building fabric duties, including light carpentry, minor roofing repairs, routine building condition surveys, and general fabric upkeep across the estate. Experience within the building or similar would be beneficial, as you'll be hands on maintaining and repairing a variety of fabric elements. The position is physically active, involving manual handling, working at height, and occasionally within confined space.
You'll be expected to keep our client fully informed of progress, accurately record all works completed, update inspection logs, highlight remedial actions and consistently deliver a high standard of customer service. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, along with confidence using IT systems for task updates, are essential.
The ideal candidate will bring experience from a background in facilities management, a recognised trade background, or equivalent practical experience.
Main Duties
1. General repairs to building fabrics across a large site (light joinery, patch repairs, door/ironmongery fixes, flooring repairs, basic roofing works)
2. Carry out planned preventative maintenance tasks, relating to building fabric
3. Assist other traders (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) with routine tasks, isolations, access, and safe working as required
4. Stock management of site consumables
5. Support subcontractors on site, ensuring safe access, escorting when required, and assisting with locating areas of work
6. Contribute to the wider engineering team by helping with estate-wide tasks, seasonal duties and general upkeep
7. Flexibility to work out of hours and at weekends when on call
What we are looking for
8. Experience of building maintenance, handyperson or a qualified fabric trade such as joinery, roofing, etc.
9. Good understanding of health and safety requirements within a building environment
10. Have a proactive approach to maintenance and building management
11. Experience of PDA technology for reporting and completion of jobs is essential, as this forms part of the process to complete and sign off each job.
12. Must hold a full UK driver's license
13. Good communication skill and the ability to work within a team
14. Provide excellent customer service to building occupants, ensuring they are made aware of work order progress in a timely manner
Any offer is subject to SC Clearance
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Aanchal Sharma at .