Engineering Tradesperson – (Core Trade Mechanical)

Job summary

Cwm Taf Morgannwg are looking for an Engineering Tradesperson (Core Trade Mechanical) to join our team at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. This role is key to providing a safe and comfortable environment for patients, visitors and our staff.

You will provide multi-skilled engineering expertise across various electrical and mechanical equipment and fabric, ensuring all essential services are maintained to support clinical departments in their prime task of treating patients whilst ensuring all statutory legislation is complied with.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of fault finding and of carrying out pre-planned maintenance in both an electrical and mechanical setting, with a full understanding the legal implications surrounding statutory compliance and engineering governance.

Main duties of the job

• Perform engineering maintenance work including activities which are complex and/or non-routine.
• Responsible for fault diagnosis, repair and calibration on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment.
• Understand, receive and give technical instructions to other Maintenance workers.
• Provide advice and instruction to other maintenance workers.
• Maintenance and repair on a range of Industrial, Commercial, Domestic, and Plant equipment
• Provide reports both verbal and written to Team Leaders and Estates Officers.
• Liaise with senior clinical staff at ward/department level regarding maintenance tasks enabling work tasks to be carried out with minimum disruption to patient support services (i.e. Heating, power, nurse call system, ventilation etc) and patient care.
• Conduct workload in an unobtrusive manner, ensuring clinical and departmental staff are made aware in the locality are aware of any disruption or potential noise etc. to ensure minimum distress levels to patients.
• Liaise appropriately with external Suppliers and Contractors, dealing with technical queries and information.
• To provide Shift Relief and/or On-Call as required.
• To carry pagers, radios or other communication devices at all times during the working day to enable emergency back-up provision.
• Undertaking testing of the mechanical and electrical systems in wards and other departments to safeguard the integrity of the electrical/mechanical supplies to areas.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.