Job overview
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Shift Technician to join our Estates and Facilities Team. This is a full-time role ( hours per week) working a scheduled shift pattern to provide / Estates cover across Trust sites.
The primary purpose of the Shift Technician role is to undertake Estates operations, maintenance, and improvement works that may be complex, demanding, and occasionally non-routine. The post holder will carry out multi-trade maintenance activities across electrical, mechanical, and building services systems, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards, statutory regulations, HTM’s, HBN’s, British Standards, and all relevant codes of practice.
The Shift Technician will be responsible for planned preventative maintenance, reactive fault finding, emergency response, and the operation and monitoring of plant and equipment including boilers, steam systems, electrical distribution, generators, BMS, fire alarms, lifts, medical gases, water systems (including RO), and other critical infrastructure. The role requires high levels of concentration, technical expertise, and the ability to problem-solve complex engineering faults in a pressurised healthcare environment.
Main duties of the job
The Shift Technician will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive estates engineering service across Trust sites, ensuring plant, equipment and infrastructure remain safe, compliant and fully operational within a / healthcare environment.
The post holder must demonstrate professionalism, flexibility and a strong commitment to maintaining a safe environment that supports high-quality patient care.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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