Job overview

We are looking for an Estates Mechanical Technician - Water to join our busy, hardworking estates team.

As an Estates Mechanical Technician you will assist the Senior Estates Officer (Operations) and be responsible for assisting in the provision of a high quality, efficient, responsive, flexible & effective estates service.

You will plan, manage and deliver PPM’s in relation to Water Safety. Ensuring action plans are developed and delivered in relation to all incidents related to water safety e.g., system temperature excursions, elevated counts.

Main duties of the job

To be part of the Estates escalation process and assist other estate staff at all levels with technical works and technical problem solving where requested. Including the supervision of Estates Trade Staff teams and contractors as appropriate. There is a requirement to participate in Estates on-call rota to ensure that emergencies and major problems occurring out of hours are attended and resolved

To carry out inspections, tests, repairs, installations, as directed on Trust property, plant and infrastructure reporting any faults found.

To undertake work as identified on allocated works dockets, completing the works and updating the Trust CAFM system in a timely manner. Organising and coordinating your own workload, and manage assigned trade staff work load as required. 

Carry out duties and apply specialist skills in at least one of the following areas:
o    Water Safety (core role)
o    Ventilation / HVAC
o    Building Management Systems

 Learn new techniques to develop your own skills as appropriate to ensure that the most effective methods are used in the course of your work. Demonstrating your own activities to new or less experienced employees, providing advice, training and technical support .

Deal with major incidents such as loss of services to critical areas, loss of medical gas to critical areas, loss of heating and hot water services to critical areas. Providing emergency assistance to the PFI Facilities Provider and other contracted services when required.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk