Job summary
AGH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides Estates, Facilities and procurement services for the Trust. We are looking for a Maintenance Worker Specialist to join our team.
We are looking for a highly motivated and professional individual capable of working well within our current Estates team who can undertake pre-planned and reactive maintenance tasks and provide assistance where required on new works schemes.
We are seeking an individual with the experience and qualifications stated in the essential criteria within the person specification.
Main duties of the job
To undertake a multi skilled technician role to carry out highly complex maintenance tasks, detailed fault diagnosis, repairs, service, condition surveys and inspection of complex building, mechanical, electrical, gas equipment, associated systems, plant and equipment of a complex/non-routine nature in accordance with relevant standards and operational procedures and statutory regulations.
Supervise a team of Estates Assistants to ensure delivery of repairs and planned maintenance tasks in line with key performance indicators to a high quality standards.
Provide training to maintenance staff and contractors covering technical issues and communicate health and safety requirements to staff, patients and contractors to ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures.
Successfully achieve the specialist training qualification followed by a technical interview process to be appointed and act as the organisations "competent person" in the following areas:
- Healthcare Low voltage Competent Person
- Healthcare HVAC Competent Person
- Healthcare Medical Gases Competent Person
- Healthcare/M.O.D Mechanical Services Competent Person
Cover a 24/7 shift pattern to provide cover to attend to out of hours emergency breakdowns of patient critical services.
Act as estates specialist engineer monitoring and maintaining the Estates Building Management System managing the external contractor to ensure planned maintenance is carried out as per schedule.
About us
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies
- Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or recognised formal period of training of at least three years duration in a mechanical/electrical engineering/building services environment.
- Attainment of a formal qualification in building services/mechanical/electrical engineering to the level of:- HNC/HND (NVQ 4)
Desirable
- Supplementary specialist training building services or mechanical systems such as:- Water Regulations Boiler Operators Certificate Industrial Gas Safety and safety issues such as:- COSHH Risk Assessments PUWER Asbestos Regulations Legionella Precautions
- Knowledge and effective use of up to date test/diagnostic equipment..
- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Building Services Engineering
- Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration.
- Safe use of access equipment training
- Manual Handling/lifting training
- Basic First Aid - Dealing with Electric Shock
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Relevant experience to graduate. Professional level or equivalent training and experience
- Awareness of current Health & Safety Legislation and related issues such as PPE, Safe Use of Tools, Confined spaces, Manual Handling etc.
- Awareness of specific safety regulations as these may apply to building services or major items of equipment
- Able to apply the knowledge, experience and judgement necessary to demonstrate, in a practical sense, the safe operation and maintenance of specific systems/equipment
- Able to demonstrate the analytical skills and judgement required to identify/diagnose a range of defects and failures in relation to specific systems/equipment and what actions to take
- Ability to Plan and organise in coordination with contractors unsupervised routine and complex maintenance, analysis, solution finding and repair work
Desirable
- Knowledge of the legal framework that supports/controls the safe operation of a variety of plant/building systems in common use within the Trust's premises
- Able to demonstrate experience of subsidiary building systems such as BMS controls, pneumatic systems, domestic hot water etc
Other
Essential
- Full UK (clean) driving licence for a four wheeled vehicle and is able to drive to other trust properties when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies
- Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or recognised formal period of training of at least three years duration in a mechanical/electrical engineering/building services environment.
- Attainment of a formal qualification in building services/mechanical/electrical engineering to the level of:- HNC/HND (NVQ 4)
Desirable
- Supplementary specialist training building services or mechanical systems such as:- Water Regulations Boiler Operators Certificate Industrial Gas Safety and safety issues such as:- COSHH Risk Assessments PUWER Asbestos Regulations Legionella Precautions
- Knowledge and effective use of up to date test/diagnostic equipment..
- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Building Services Engineering
- Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration.
- Safe use of access equipment training
- Manual Handling/lifting training
- Basic First Aid - Dealing with Electric Shock
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Relevant experience to graduate. Professional level or equivalent training and experience
- Awareness of current Health & Safety Legislation and related issues such as PPE, Safe Use of Tools, Confined spaces, Manual Handling etc.
- Awareness of specific safety regulations as these may apply to building services or major items of equipment
- Able to apply the knowledge, experience and judgement necessary to demonstrate, in a practical sense, the safe operation and maintenance of specific systems/equipment
- Able to demonstrate the analytical skills and judgement required to identify/diagnose a range of defects and failures in relation to specific systems/equipment and what actions to take
- Ability to Plan and organise in coordination with contractors unsupervised routine and complex maintenance, analysis, solution finding and repair work
Desirable
- Knowledge of the legal framework that supports/controls the safe operation of a variety of plant/building systems in common use within the Trust's premises
- Able to demonstrate experience of subsidiary building systems such as BMS controls, pneumatic systems, domestic hot water etc
Other
Essential
- Full UK (clean) driving licence for a four wheeled vehicle and is able to drive to other trust properties when required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
