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.