Job overview
Join our team and help create a safe, reliable environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
You will play a key role in maintaining essential building and engineering services that support frontline clinical care. You’ll ensure systems operate safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with statutory legislation and Trust policies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain essential electrical services to support clinical departments in delivering patient care.
- Carry out planned and reactive maintenance to a high standard, ensuring compliance with all regulations.
- Diagnose faults and perform repairs on electrical systems, including complex and non-routine tasks.
- Ensure all work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the required quality standards.
- Contribute to a safe and comfortable healthcare environment at all times
About You:
- Qualified electrical tradesperson with relevant certification.
- Experience in maintenance, fault finding, and compliance in a complex environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to safety and quality.
Make a difference where it matters most—supporting healthcare through engineering excellence.
Main duties of the job
Provide multi-skilled engineering expertise across various electrical and mechanical equipment and fabric.
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.
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. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.
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.
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This advert is for Engineering Tradesperson Electrical with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. It is listed as a Band 5 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £32,557 - £39,631 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jun 2026.
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