Estates Maintenance Multi-Skilled Technician

Company Description The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides clinical services to over half a million patients each year, including more than 94,000 Emergency Department attendances. As an NHS Foundation Trust, it is supported by a Council of Governors with 25 members and over 6,000 public members, reflecting strong community engagement. The Trust employs over 3,500 staff, making it one of the largest employers in Hillingdon and offering a wide range of career opportunities. It has been recognized as one of the HSJ Top 100 Best Places to Work, highlighting its commitment to staff wellbeing and professional development.

Role Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Estates Maintenance Multi-Skilled Technician – Electrical Bias to join the Estates Maintenance Team at Mount Vernon Hospital.

The post holder will be responsible for carrying out reactive, planned, and preventative maintenance across a wide range of electrical systems, plant, and infrastructure within a complex healthcare environment. Working as part of a multi-skilled Estates Maintenance team, the post holder will support the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of critical engineering services that directly support patient care and hospital operations.

Whilst maintaining an electrical bias, the role also requires a practical working knowledge of mechanical building services systems, enabling the post holder to undertake first-line fault diagnosis, make-safe activities, and support service restoration during engineering incidents. The post holder will participate in the Estates Maintenance On-Call Duty Technician rota, providing out-of-hours response to emergency maintenance issues and infrastructure failures.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds in Electrical, Mechanical, or Building Services Engineering.
• Recognised multi-skilled maintenance qualification across at least two engineering disciplines.
• Completed apprenticeship or equivalent structured training in a relevant engineering or building-services trade.
• Training in safe systems of work (e.g. Permit-to-Work, Lock-out/Tag-out, Risk Assessment, Hot Works).
• Proven experience delivering reactive and planned maintenance in a large, multi-discipline environment.
• Skilled in fault-finding and repair of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
• Experience maintaining domestic and commercial water systems, pumps, pressure plant, and steam boiler and condensate-return systems.

• IOSH Working Safely / Managing Safely.
• Authorised or Competent Person training in one or more HTM disciplines (Electrical, MGPS, Lifts, Pressure Systems, Ventilation).
• Boiler Operation Accreditation Scheme (BOAS) qualification for operation and maintenance of steam boiler and condensate return systems.
• BMS operation or Trend-system training certification.
• Asbestos Awareness and Manual Handling training.
• Previous employment within an NHS Estates or other healthcare environment
• Experience performing duties as a Competent Person under HTM or JSP 375 appointment.