Maintenance Operative

We now have an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Operative to join our highly regarded NHS repairs and maintenance team based in Bristol. This is a mobile role where you willl be maintaining a number of healthcare sites/hospitals.

Our maintenance business provides a range of expert planned and responsive maintenance services to domestic properties and commercial buildings in the social housing, health and social care sectors. We look after a growing number of healthcare buildings for NHS Trusts, residential homes and educational facilities. Using the latest technology we ensure properties are well maintained, efficient and fit for purpose.

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Our NHS maintenance healthcare team provides a planned, preventative and reactive maintenance service for a large NHS trust in Bristol. To enable us to continue to deliver an excellent quality service, we are looking for a multi skilled maintenance engineer to join the team.

This is a varied role where you will undertake planned and reactive repairs across building fabric, carpentry and plumbing. You will be working in a mobile role maintaining a number of healthcare sites so a full UK driving licence is required.

Key Responsibilities Include;

• Complete reactive building-fabric maintenance.
• Carry out weekly/monthly PPM's such as emergency lighting, water temperature temps, weekly fire alarm testing
• Within competence undertake carpentry, plumbing, electrical, door, lock, ironmongery, patch-plastering, tiling, painting.
• Inspect defects and identify root causes, risks or further work.
• Complete repairs safely and escalate specialist or authorised work.
• Assist with planned maintenance activities such as planned upgrade works and refurbishment as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure a safe environment for service users.
• Use the handheld PDA provided to receive jobs, complete risk assessments, and close jobs in real time.
• Be part of the out of hours call out rota for emergency and make safe repairs(which offers the opportunity to increase your earnings and be involved in additional urgent repairs)

What we can offer you;

• Competitive starting salary
• A company van, fuel card and uniform.
• Full time hours and a permanent position. Normal working hours are 8am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on call rota for emergency repairs where you will receive a standby allowance and overtime paid at time and a half or double time depending on day/time of call out.
• 25 days holiday with the ability to increase up to 30 days.
• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
• Company pension, life assurance and income protection.
• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and more.
• Health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our
• Health and Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more!
  Opportunities to progress your career across the business.
• Full training, ongoing coaching and support. 

• Building fabric / facilities maintenance experience.
• Competence to carry out a range of building fabric repairs. This could include: plumbing, electrical, plastering etc. 
• NVQ Level 2 in a relevant building maintenance trade, or recognised equivalent would be desirable.
• Previous maintenance experience gained within the NHS (or for a maintenance contractor providing services to the NHS) would be beneficial. Alternatively, you may have worked for a maintenance contractor providing a planned/reactive maintenance service in a commercial setting (perhaps a hotel, school, supermarkets etc).

Above all you will have excellent customer service skills and be passionate about providing high quality repairs.

Please note a full UK driving license is required and the position is subject to a DBS check.

This is a genuinely diverse role with excellent scope for personal development. If you have this experience, we'd strongly encourage you to apply. 

As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.  

To apply online, please use the 'apply for this job link' at the top of this page.

Our application process is very straight forward allowing you to apply with a CV (from your Computer or Dropbox), LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ and should take no more than a few short minutes. 

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