Engineering Tradesperson – (Core Trade Electrical)

Job summary

Cwm Taf Morgannwg are seeking an Engineering Tradesperson (core electrical) to join our Estates team supporting the Prince Charles Hospital to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for our patients, visitors and staff.

This role will attract shift and on call allowances.

We are looking for a skilled individual with a track record of carrying out maintenance tasks to the appropriate levels of quality required, the ability to diagnose and repair faults, and to calibrate a range of engineering plant and equipment.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

To provide a safe and comfortable environment for patients, staff and visitors by:

• Providing 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.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are fulfilled to appropriate levels of quality in a compliant manner.
• 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.
• Maintenance and repair on a range of Industrial, Commercial, Domestic, and Plant equipment.

Typical areas of work include:

• Power/Lighting circuits
• Low voltage switchgear
• Fire alarm systems
• Emergency Generators and associated switchgear
• Battery systems and uninterruptable power supplies
• Air conditioning equipment and controls, including theatre handling units
• Heating controls, boiler controls and associated equipment
• Lift release
• Portable equipment
• Nurse call and cardiac arrest systems
• Catering equipment
• Medical vacuum and compressed air plant

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.