Maintenance Technician

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Directorate: Facilities

Reports to: Operations Supervisor

Direct Reports: None

Location: Lingfield, Surrey (On-Site)

Hours of Work: 40 hours per week, 7am-4pm & 8am-5pm

(Alternating weekly work pattern, i.e. Week 1: 7-4pm,

Week 2, 8-5pm).

Salary: Up to £29,092 per annum (FTE) dependent on experience

(please see requirements detailed in the job advert/role profile attached)

All Year: All Year, Permanent

Closing Date: 1st June 2026

Your Role

We have an opportunity for a skilled Maintenance Technician to join our Maintenance team.

As part of the Estates you will be predominantly operating within the maintenance/logistics team, you will be responsible for supporting delivery of day-to day maintenance, compliance reporting, pool plant maintenance, liaising with contractors and delivering a comprehensive planned and reactive maintenance service across a 65 acre site comprising listed properties, residential, educational, offices and medical facilities.

What we need from you

• Hold a recognised trade qualification or have equivalent experience. This would usually be equivalent to City and Guilds 236 Part I and II, NVQ Level 3.
• Building maintenance or building services maintenance experience in a customer-focused environment.
• BMS experience.
• Work as a member of the maintenance/logistics team to provide planned and reactive building and engineering maintenance services to agreed standards.
• Schedule and plan your own daily work schedule in liaison with the Maintenance Supervisor where appropriate to meet agreed service levels and customer requirements assessing jobs, establishing and specifying materials/parts needs, liaising with building users/customers as necessary.
• Ensure the completion of maintenance records/paperwork once jobs are finished and that the work site is left clean and tidy. Support the move to digital recording.
• Undertake planned preventative maintenance and defect rectifications on building fabric, plant equipment fixture and fittings as appropriate to skills.
• Develop and maintain good working relationship with all client departments in order to deliver a high quality efficient and effective building and engineering maintenance service.
• Assist the Maintenance Supervisor and the Estates & Operations Manager in the periodical review of any Risk Assessments relating to work specific to the trade skill deployed.
• Consult asbestos registers, water risk assessment reports, operating and maintenance manuals as deemed appropriate prior to repair and or installation works and take appropriate precautions.
• Deal with fire hazards and or obstructions in plant rooms, riser cupboards, corridors and lift lobbies and reporting these to the Maintenance Supervisor and Estates & Operations Manager as appropriate.
• Ability to work as part of the team.
• As we provide CQC regulated care services, under the current legislation it will be a requirement of this role to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, unless medically exempt. This will be a requirement from 11 November 2021

Benefits

• Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities
• Generous annual leave
• Occupational pension scheme
• Subsidised dining room
• Your Rewards, giving you access to nationwide discounts and benefits
• Free parking on campus
• Access to a working farm and horticultural area
• We are accessible by bus, by train via the East Grinstead branch of the Oxted Line and by car

About us

Epilepsy can be one of the most frightening and isolating conditions a child can experience. There’s a loss of all sense of safety – not knowing when and where their next seizure will happen, who’ll be there and whether they’ll be hurt.

We’ve been transforming the lives of children and young people with epilepsy for over 125 years.

We’ve led the way in an inclusive, progressive, and nurturing approach to the education and support of children and young people with epilepsy.

Today, more than ever, Young Epilepsy is dedicated to standing up, with and for, children and young people with epilepsy. We’re here for them. It’s our job to listen and work with them so they can fulfil their potential.

We campaign for children’s rights. We deliver health services and research that improve diagnosis and treatments. We support children and young people throughout school, college, and university. We provide information, friendly advice, and practical help for living everyday life. Together we create possible.