# Senior Mechanical Craftsperson

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £36,943 to £44,900 a year
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Senior Mechanical Craftsperson will be responsible as the senior and lead mechanical craftsperson within the in-house mechanical maintenance team.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the estates mechanical team and contractors to ensure statutory, critical, and routine maintenance is completed, recorded, and documented.

- Skilled in repair, fault-finding, and diagnosis of boilers, pressure systems, medical gas, HVAC/ventilation, controls, heating/hot water, CAD data systems, and generators.

- Developing improvement plans for poor performance and reviewing works for quality, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness.

- Working outside trade in emergencies as directed and assisting with staff training.

- Following Trust policies, maintaining effective communication, and ensuring safe systems of work, site induction, risk/COSH assessments, and permit-to-work compliance.

- Reporting unsafe practices/equipment and working safely on mechanical/electrical systems as Competent Person.

- Implementing legislation, safety alerts, HTMs, HBNs, codes of practice, and ensuring financial compliance and value for money in contracts/purchases.

- Holding AP/CP accreditation and performing duties accordingly.

- Participating in Estates Craftsperson Team on-call cover for Newham University Hospital.

The role requires a good working knowledge of Health & Safety principles within mechanical engineering and building systems, and knowledge of mechanical maintenance to meet relevant HTM 06.01 and HTM 06.02 standards.

The salary for this role is £36,943 to £44,900 per annum.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical engineering
- Fault-finding
- Maintenance
- Health and Safety
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Information systems for maintenance activity (Concept CAFM System)
- Allocating planned and reactive work to the in-house mechanical team and contractors
- Understanding Standing Financial Instructions

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