Plant Attendant

1 month ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff University Full time

**Advert**

**Plant Attendant**

Cardiff University provide a place of opportunity and inspiration for our students, our staff, our business partners, and our local community. We create and care for the spaces they need to thrive and reach their potential.
- Cardiff University is looking to recruit an experienced, reliable, and highly motivated Plant Attendant as a member of the Estates & Campus Facilities team.
- To provide routine planned maintenance to mechanical building services installed throughout the University including heating/ventilation systems and basic routine Water Hygiene PPM’s. Ensuring all statutory, planned works are completed safely, cost effectively and to the agreed KPI’s and Service Level Agreement.
- You will be a committed, friendly, team player who is keen to progress and to understand and implement performance expectations in line with the Cardiff Professional behaviours.
- We offer excellent working conditions, training, uniform, access to a company vehicle, all necessary PPE equipment, generous annual leave, pension scheme and use of the University’s leisure and cultural facilities.
- This role is full time (35 hours a week), open-ended and available immediately.**Salary**: £21,197 - £23,144 per annum (Grade 3).**Date advert posted: Tuesday, 28 February 2023**

**Closing date: Tuesday, 28 March 2023**

**Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.**

**Main duties**
- To carry out works on steam raising plant, associated controls, pipework, pump, gland re-packaging, valve overhaul, calorifier and chilled water maintenance etc. (Additional steam training will be provide as necessary).
- Routine maintenance on Air Handling Units (AHU’S) including changing of media filters, cleaning, and disinfection of AHU coils.
- Undertake utility meter readings and PPM water hygiene outlet flushing tasks.
- Statutory plant room checks which includes cleaning, gas boiler resetting, venting, draining and or filling heating and HWS systems
- Comply with all relevant health and safety legislation and procedures, including task specific risk assessments and method statements, in the carrying out of maintenance and adaptation work, reporting any potentially unsafe working.
- Ensure all necessary paperwork required both manually or electronically, are completed accurately and in a timely manner in line with SLA’s. This includes Daily statutory steam boiler logs, specific statutory compliance task sheets against PPM schedules, stores stock sheets, allocation of hours and any other required for legislation or safety purposes.
- Ensuring all statutory, planned and breakdown works are completed safely, cost effectively and to the agreed KPI’s and Service Level Agreement.
- Assist and advise Management of critical and essential material stock levels
- Maintain personal tools, equipment, and vehicle, taking responsibility for the safe keeping to ensure all good condition.
- To carry out such duties as are required and are commensurate with the level of this post.

**Person Specification**

**Essential Criteria**
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification in Operation of M&E services plant and or City & Guilds or equivalent in Steam Plant Operation (update training will be given).
- Demonstrate experience of working within a higher education environment.
- Good understanding of job specific General Health and Safety in the workplace including risk assessments and method statement.
- Ability to work well as part of a team and independently to achieve overall team goals.
- The ability to access and maintain plant via ladders, working access platforms, through ceiling voids, working in congested spaces, etc. (update training will be given)
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with the use PDA/Smart Phone CAFM app.
- Knowledge of University’s Building energy Management Systems (e.g. TREND).
- A valid driving license is necessary as it is a condition of employment that all personnel are able to utilise the fleet of university vehicles to reach all University sites.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Fluency in Welsh written and oral.

**Additional Information**

**Additional Information**
This is a full-time on-going position of 35 hours per week. Hours of work normally be 0800 to 1600, with one hour for lunch.
- The Estates Department operates a formal out-of-hours steam boiler rota. You will be required to participate in this scheme as


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