Job overview
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To participate in the effective and efficient day to day operation and maintenance of all types of engineering plant and equipment associated with a modern day NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.
Maintenance Craftsperson will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skills and should possess levels of flexibility and competence to allow them to perform the following.
Performs work including activities, which are complex, and/or non-routine. Responsible for calibration and fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment (steam, raising plant and associated equipment, sterilizers, washer/disinfectors, piped medical gas systems, low pressure hot water systems and natural gas systems.
Main duties of the job
Undertaking maintenance, repairs, minor improvements and minor capital work across the Trust, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully. Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
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Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience on aspects of mechanical building services including boiler plant compressed air pumping installations
- Heating Controls
- Pressure systems
- Experience in fault diagnosis and have the ability to interpreted and analyse complex critical equipment and systems.
- Experience in identifying problems with Building management systems.
Desirable
- Heating and ventilation systems, carrying out annual verification of Critical AHU system in accordance with HTM03-01
- Piped medical gas systems
- Decontamination equipment – sterilizers, washer disinfectors
- Working in a frontline customer service based organisation
- Experience in identifying and rectification of legionella risk assessment surveys.
- Experience in identifying and rectification complex problems in mechanical systems.
- Experience in using CAFM software(Planet)
- Air conditioning systems
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Mechanical engineering apprenticeship
Desirable
- Customer care and team based working
- Gas Safe regulations
- CP Water, CP Vent , CP Medical Gas , CP Pressure
- C & G Part II Full Technological Cert
- Course 205-3 Mechanical Engineering Maintenance Part 2
- Electrical skills training
Personal attributes and Skills
Essential
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Communicate effectively verbal and written
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Time management skills
- Able to prioritise workload
- Excellent diagnostic and fault finding skills
- General Computer skills
- Familiar with PPM Management systems and Data bases
- Liaise with specialist service contractor
- Liaise with departmental managers
- Team player conscientious and methodical
- Willing to participate in flexible versatile working, out of hours working, recall to work across all Trust sites
- Participate in NVQ training
- Ability to address problems and seek solutions
- Participate in the on call rota for mechanical staff
Desirable
- Effective communication style.
- Self-motivated
- Effectively communicate both technical and non-technical advice to clinical professionals
- Liaison between estates and other directorate to provide effective communication where service delivery or there is a risk to patient care
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients to provide reassurance and information about estates activities
- Experience of carrying out point of work risk assessment.
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This advert is for Mechanical Craftsperson with Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Estates and facilities role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum Pro Rata. The contract type is Permanent: On call allowance at 4.5%. The application deadline is 30 Jul 2026.
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