Building Fabric Engineer
Sub Division: Defence
Location: Bicester
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
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Purpose of Role
We are seeking a skilled Building Fabric Technician to join our facilities maintenance team, delivering planned and reactive maintenance across a secure Ministry of Defence site in Bicester.
Job Description
Working across a varied estate of operational and support buildings, you'll play a key role in maintaining the condition, safety, and functionality of the site's facilities. This is a hands-on role where no two days are the same, carrying out a broad range of fabric maintenance tasks while supporting the wider engineering team to ensure the estate remains operational.
Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive building fabric repairs across the site.
- Complete general building fabric maintenance including repairs to doors, locks, hinges, flooring, ceilings, walls, and internal fixtures.
- Undertake floor repairs including replacing tiles and carrying out minor flooring works.
- Carry out minor plumbing repairs including fixing leaks, replacing taps, and basic pipework maintenance.
- Complete basic decorating, painting, patch repairs, and general upkeep of internal and external areas.
- Support with minor maintenance tasks across other trades where required as part of a multi-skilled facilities team.
- Source materials and replacement parts required to complete repairs.
- Accurately complete maintenance records, compliance documentation, and CAFM system updates.
Essential Qualifications/Skills
- Proven experience in a Building Fabric, Carpenter, Multi-Skilled or Maintenance Technician role.
- Previous experience within commercial building maintenance or facilities management environments.
- Experience delivering both planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance.
- Comfortable working within a secure, operational Ministry of Defence environment.
- Good understanding of maintenance compliance, job reporting, and CAFM systems.
- Willing to participate in a 1 in 5 on-call rota.
- Full UK Driving Licence (maximum six penalty points and no drink driving convictions).
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
Work Location: In person
