Estates Technician (Mechanical)

Job summary

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Estates Technician with a mechanical bias to join our NHS Estates team. In this role, you will help maintain and repair critical mechanical infrastructure, plant, and systems including HVAC, plumbing, medical gases, steam systems, etc ensuring our buildings remain safe, efficient, and fully operational for patients, staff, and visitors. If you are technically minded, safety focused, and committed to supporting high quality patient care, wed love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Carry out and supervise planned and reactive maintenance on mechanical, electro-mechanical, and associated building services across the Trust, ensuring safe and reliable operation of critical hospital plant & estate infrastructure. Diagnose, undertake repair, and supervise internal and external resource on equipment such as HVAC, steam boilers, ventilation, BMS, and complex systems. Complete safety tests, inspections and maintain accurate maintenance records in line with Trust procedures. Support and supervise contractors, work collaboratively with Estates colleagues, contractors and clinical teams, providing technical advice and communicating issues clearly. Ensure all work is completed safely, accurately and documented appropriately, escalating risks or complex issues when necessary. This will include travelling between sites undertaking tasks in line with relevant policies and taking part in emergency response duties and the Estates on-call rota when required.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

• Date posted: 06 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: C9365-26-0083-4
• Job locations: The Alexandra Hospital, Woodrow Drive, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 7UB, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

To contribute to the provision of a comprehensive and responsive maintenance service, to undertake preventative and reactive maintenance tasks to assist with the delivery of Estates service to Alexandra Hospital and wider trust.

Full job description available.