Engineering Tradesperson – (Core Trade Electrical)

Job overview

Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB are seeking an Engineering Tradesperson (core electrical) to join our Estates team supporting the Prince Charles Hospital to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for our patients, visitors and staff.

This role will attract shift and on call allowances.

We are looking for a skilled individual with a track record of carrying out maintenance tasks to the appropriate levels of quality required, the ability to diagnose and repair faults, and to calibrate a range of engineering plant and equipment.

Main duties of the job

To provide a safe and comfortable environment for patients, staff and visitors by:

• Providing multi-skilled engineering expertise across various electrical and mechanical equipment and fabric.
• Ensuring all essential services are maintained to support clinical departments in their prime task of treating patients whilst ensuring all statutory legislation is complied with.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are fulfilled to appropriate levels of quality in a compliant manner.
• Perform engineering maintenance work including activities, which are complex and/or non-routine.
• Responsible for fault diagnosis, repair and calibration on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment.
• Maintenance and repair on a range of Industrial, Commercial, Domestic, and Plant equipment.

Typical areas of work include:

• Power/Lighting circuits
• Low voltage switchgear
• Fire alarm systems
• Emergency Generators and associated switchgear
• Battery systems and uninterruptable power supplies
• Air conditioning equipment and controls, including theatre handling units
• Heating controls, boiler controls and associated equipment
• Lift release
• Portable equipment
• Nurse call and cardiac arrest systems
• Catering equipment
• Medical vacuum and compressed air plant

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.