Shift Maintenance Fitter

7 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an experienced Mechanical Shift Maintenance Fitter to join our team to help keep our hospital environment safe, operational and support the health and well-being of our patients, staff and visitors.

This constitutes a blend of planned preventative maintenance coupled with emergency repairs and everything in between.

We cannot even begin to tell you what a great place this is to work, with so many interesting and intricate engineering systems that you just won’t find anywhere else. You will demonstrate a good working knowledge of critical mechanical infrastructure ranging from steam raising plant, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems to Medical Gas and building management systems in compliance with all statutory requirements and good practice guidelines.

27 holidays annual leave plus bank holidays

Great Employee Benefit Schemes

The Bottom Line - What Do you Receive?

**Salary**:
The NHS Band for this position is Band 4 which for regular hours works out at £25,147 rising to £27,596 pa (after 3 years).

However, as a Shift Maintenance Fitter working for our Trust and with the RRP included, based on our current shift pattern this equates to approx. £32,100 to £35,000 (after 3 years) pa.

On top of this there may be irregular overtime opportunities throughout the year. Also within the benefits is optional inclusion into one of the best pension packages available

You will be issued with our easily recognisable Hospital uniform and will work as part of the mechanical team with 11 colleagues carrying out all manner of planned preventative maintenance and emergency breakdown repairs to engineering plant and equipment.

Owing to the skills and experience you possess, many of the repairs will need to be attended to urgently and some aspects of the work can be hazardous.

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities to learn new skills. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Carry out reactive and planned preventative maintenance along with inspection and testing of complex systems including Steam raising plant (Shell Boilers),condensate & distribution pipework, MTHW, LTHW, HTG and DHWS systems, pressure systems, unvented and vented hot water systems, chilled water systems, medical gas systems. ventilation & air conditioning systems, compressed air systems, building management systems, catering equipment and other fixed hospital systems in line with statutory requirements and Trust procedures.

Prioritise and respond efficiently to all planned and reactive maintenance jobs to meet SLA's.

Identify, prioritise and plan own work load and actively participate in the operation of the performance management information system, including the completion of all paper work required in a timely manner. This will be aided by the use of a hand held electronic device.

Ensure safe working practices are followed such as the completion of risk assessment, SOP's Trust Policies and PTW procedures.

Advise the Maintenance Manager / Engineering Manager (Operational) regarding plant or equipment failure and to request in writing the supply of goods and/or services with reference to manufacturer’s manuals etc.

Maintain stock levels for spares and equipment.

Advises the on call Estates Manager and Senior Hospital Staff (Duty Manager on call/Directorate Managers) on maintenance issues as required outside of normal office hours.

Provide operational advisory support to Trust staff and managers to ensure compliance with all safety standards and procedures.

Liaise with contractors, utility suppliers, professional parties and other service users both during normal working hours and out of hours.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers, colleagues, contractors and trust wide service users.

Liaise with Wards and Departments to ensure requested work is specified correctly to meet the users’ needs, provided efficiently and completed within the agreed priority response periods. This applies to all work requests including patient critical engineering plant, equipment and building services.

Assist with, and support the Trusts Engineering



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