Maintenance Technician
Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Directorate: Facilities
Reports to: Operations Supervisor
Direct Reports: None
Location: Lingfield, Surrey (On-Site)
Hours of Work: 40 hours per week, 7am-4pm & 8-5pm (Alternating weekly work pattern, i.e. Week 1: 7-4pm, Week 2, 8-5pm).
Salary: Up to £29,092 per annum (FTE) dependent on experience (please see requirements detailed in the job advert/role profile attached)
All Year: All Year, Permanent
Closing Date: 5th August 2026
Young Epilepsy and St. Piers is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and promotes the welfare of all learners.
As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, online searches will form part of this process.
An Enhanced Disclosure with relevant Barring Service checks and full referencing will be required before employment can commence.
Your Role
We have an opportunity for a skilled Maintenance Technician to join our Maintenance team.
As part of the Estates you will be predominantly operating within the maintenance/logistics team, you will be responsible for supporting delivery of day-to day maintenance, compliance reporting, pool plant maintenance, liaising with contractors and delivering a comprehensive planned and reactive maintenance service across a 65 acre site comprising listed properties, residential, educational, offices and medical facilities.
What we need from you
- Hold a recognised trade qualification or have equivalent experience. This would usually be equivalent to City and Guilds 236 Part I and II, NVQ Level 3.
- Building maintenance or building services maintenance experience in a customer-focused environment.
- BMS experience.
- Work as a member of the maintenance/logistics team to provide planned and reactive building and engineering maintenance services to agreed standards.
- Schedule and plan your own daily work schedule in liaison with the Maintenance Supervisor where appropriate to meet agreed service levels and customer requirements assessing jobs, establishing and specifying materials/parts needs, liaising with building users/customers as necessary.
- Ensure the completion of maintenance records/paperwork once jobs are finished and that the work site is left clean and tidy. Support the move to digital recording.
- Undertake planned preventative maintenance and defect rectifications on building fabric, plant equipment fixture and fittings as appropriate to skills.
- Develop and maintain good working relationship with all client departments in order to deliver a high quality efficient and effective building and engineering maintenance service.
- Assist the Maintenance Supervisor and the Estates & Operations Manager in the periodical review of any Risk Assessments relating to work specific to the trade skill deployed.
- Consult asbestos registers, water risk assessment reports, operating and maintenance manuals as deemed appropriate prior to repair and or installation works and take appropriate precautions.
- Deal with fire hazards and or obstructions in plant rooms, riser cupboards, corridors and lift lobbies and reporting these to the Maintenance Supervisor and Estates & Operations Manager as appropriate.
- Ability to work as part of the team.
- As we provide CQC regulated care services, under the current legislation it will be a requirement of this role to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, unless medically exempt. This will be a requirement from 11 November 2021.
Please refer to the Job Description for full details of role.
Benefits
- Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities
- Generous annual leave
- Occupational pension scheme
- Subsidised dining room
- Your Rewards, giving you access to nationwide discounts and benefits
- Free parking on campus
- Access to a working farm and horticultural area
We are accessible by bus, by train via the East Grinstead branch of the Oxted Line and by car
About Us
We campaign for children’s rights. We deliver health services and research that improve diagnosis and treatments. We support children and young people throughout school, college, and university. We provide information, friendly advice, and practical help for living everyday life. Together we create possible.
No agencies please
Young Epilepsy strives to employ people that reflect the community it serves; therefore, applications from minority groups and people with disabilities are particularly welcomed.
Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales).
If you do not hear anything within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful.
Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales).
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