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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Day Technician at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to join our busy Estates & Facilities Management Team. The day technician is employed to work across both engineering disciplines.  They will have been trained wider than their core skill and acquired elements of both Electrical and Mechanical skills and have reached a level of flexibility and competence which enables them to achieve and apply the ability where required to perform across numerous duties, these will include general maintenance and installation on the complex systems that form part of the infrastructure to the site. 

Main duties of the job

Test, diagnose and repair faults on engineering and/or electrical and plumbing installations, plant and equipment, to deal with new situations as they arise and pass on knowledge to others.

Have a large understanding of domestic hot water, mains cold water, plumbing, high temperature hot water heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and steam heating systems to enable diagnostic work and repairs to be completed.

Maintain and repair types of pumps, circulation systems, belt drives, pulleys and direct drive systems.

Work alongside the in house maintenance team along with working with their own initiative with minimum supervision.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

The Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is a large acute hospital spread across 3 sites in the City delivering excellent care to the local residents. The in house maintenance team is made of a workforce comprising of 60 tradesmen from different disciplines providing on-site service 24 7 to the Trust ensuring that patient care is delivered safely and without interruption. The current team is well experienced with a large amount of knowledge that strive to provide the best standards of service, this in turn has created a good sense of team work with patient care being at the core of our working principles. This vacancy would suit a qualified professional person who feels they can bring something extra to the team and enhance the service we provide. Along with the salary, uniform is provided along with generous annual leave allocation and other benefits.