Plant Room Operative

3 months ago


University of York, United Kingdom University of York Full time

**About Us**:
The Directorate of Technology, Estates and Facilities [DTEF] is responsible for ‘providing outstanding work, study, research facilities, and facilities to enhance the student experience, on campus and online’.

This role is part of the Estates Operations & Maintenance team within Estates. The team includes fully qualified and semi-skilled colleagues, who work alongside the Universities technical team as support on central utility infrastructure projects.

**About the role**:
This role requires a mechanically biassed trades person to safely maintain the University’s building’s infrastructure and equipment. You will be required to pay particular attention to the University's large district heating network that includes two Energy centres containing natural gas boilers and Combined Heat and Power plant.

You will have hands on skills, strong customer focus and good knowledge of modern technologies and control systems. It is expected that you will improve the reliability of our equipment and operations. You will also provide specialist assistance and cross skills support within our multi-discipline maintenance team. It is essential that you have experience of working with commercial Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems.

As part of a motivated self managed team, we offer:

- 38 days annual leave
- Generous pension benefits
- Access to discounts and services
- Opportunity for overtime
- Family friendly policies and flexible approach to working patterns
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support including an Employee Assistance Scheme
- Uniform
- Tools will be supplied along with access to a vehicle on campus
- Supported to maintain your professional qualifications
- Learning and development opportunities
- Opportunities for progression

On occasions, you may be required to provide out of hours support and assistance. For example: in the event of loss of services or an incident that may impact the business or the smooth running or continuance of key infrastructure to the campus.

We largely operate core hours Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm, but during periods of high demand the team is expected to work flexibly to ensure continuity of service. As part of the roll you will on occasion be expected to be called out to attend to business critical issues out of hours and at weekends, with overtime paid.

**Skills, Experience & Qualification needed**:

- NVQ (or equivalent) in Heating and Ventilation
- Knowledge of and hands on experience of working with complex heating and ventilation systems
- Knowledge of and hands on experience of working with Building Environment Management Systems
- Knowledge of and hand on experience of working with air handling units and Low Electrical Voltage systems
- Knowledge of and hands on experience of working with commercial heating and Hot Water systems
- Evidence of upholding our behaviours as detailed in the Person Specification within the accompanying Job Description.

Interview date: To be confirmed

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