Estates Maintenance Building Fabric Technician

Job overview

You'll be responsible for delivering a comprehensive building fabric maintenance service across the Trust’s estate, carrying out high-quality joinery, carpentry, and general building works to recognised trade standards. Duties include planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive repairs, fault finding, inspections, minor works and specialist joinery/fabrication projects.

The role involves surveying, estimating, ordering materials, undertaking repairs and installations, and ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to clinical services. Responsibilities include the maintenance of doors, fire doors, windows, locks, flooring, roofing, wall protection systems, and other building fabric elements.

The post holder works closely with clinical and non-clinical staff, supervises contractors when required, maintains stock levels, and uses the Trust’s CAFM/PDA systems to manage and record maintenance activities. They must comply with all relevant health and safety legislation, including COSHH, PUWER, Working at Height, PASMA, and IPAF requirements.

The role requires flexibility to respond to urgent maintenance issues, participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota, and support emergency response activities. The post holder is also expected to undertake ongoing training, assist in developing apprentices and colleagues, and contribute to the effective operation of the Estates service.

***this advert may close early, subject to high application numbers***

Main duties of the job

• To repair and maintain the building fabric, fixtures and fittings to all Trust properties, and all properties covered by any current Service Level Contracts.
• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance according to requirements and needs of the Department.
• Assist other maintenance staff as and when necessary.
• To undertake other duties within the job description as requested / directed by your supervisor, team manager and estates manager.
• All building fabric work to all hospital property, internally and externally, to a high quality and acceptable craft standards and approved methods of working.
• Work to include general joinery and specialist prefabrication.
• Will receive complex information must have good communication skills and be able to communicate with staff at all levels.
• Undertake complete work including measure design manufacture requisitioning of materials and installation.
• Estimate cost and materials for minor works schemes ensuring compliance with all necessary standards.
• Will plan and organise work, liaise with other members of staff and patients on a daily basis to ensure work is specified correctly and undertaken in accordance with the user requirements with the minimum of disruption all staff Wards and departments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.