Fabric Technician

at  Kings College London

Job id: 086867. Salary: Salary: £32,979- £36,396 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 28 March 2024. Closing date: 07 April 2024.
Business unit: Estates & Facilities. Department: Engineering - Strand.
Contact details: John Healy. john.healy@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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Job description
The Fabric Technician is responsible for completing reactive fabric maintenance and planned preventative fabric maintenance within SLA across the Estate, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and compliance requirements including minimising the risk of environmental impact and following Health and Safety processes.
This role will mainly involve carpentry tasks, but it will also include completing PPMs such as fire door inspections.
The Fabric Technician will liaise with specialist contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery. The Fabric Technician will ensure teams and clients (where applicable) are kept up to date on progress.

This role comes with excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Range of opportunities for professional learning and development
• Excellent pension scheme

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract
This is a full-time post

Key responsibilities

• To carry out planned and reactive fabric maintenance as directed and within SLA.
• To ensure all tasks are completed to a high standard, cost effective and maintained regularly and completed in a safe manner.
• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the site’s fabric services.
• Maintain a safe systems of work process and periodically update as may be required, ensure risk assessments are adhered to and registers are checked.
• Conduct fault finding across all areas of Engineering responsibility.
• Collaborate with Campus Operations and other teams with regards to projects.
• Conduct fault finding across all engineering infrastructures.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns
• Comply with all statutory, company and client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the college environment.
• Complete paperwork and comments for/on the CAFM system to a high standard
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required e.g. Fit For King’s

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria
1. Carpentry qualification and time served fabric experience in a maintenance background
2. Strong, demonstrable competencies in building services trades
3. Good understanding and experience of meeting health and safety obligations regarding maintenance activities
4. Good communicator including good verbal communication
5. Ability to work from an iPad to manage work through our CAFM system
6. IT literate (Excel, Teams and other Microsoft packages)
7. Team player and flexible attitude
8. Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests
9. Ability to use, repair and maintain tools
10. Pay attention to detail and strong problem solving skills
Desirable criteria
1. City & Guilds /apprenticeship in a relevant discipline
2. IOSH Managing Safely
3. First Aid

This role comes with excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Range of opportunities for professional learning and development
• Excellent pension schem

Key responsibilities

• To carry out planned and reactive fabric maintenance as directed and within SLA.
• To ensure all tasks are completed to a high standard, cost effective and maintained regularly and completed in a safe manner.
• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the site’s fabric services.
• Maintain a safe systems of work process and periodically update as may be required, ensure risk assessments are adhered to and registers are checked.
• Conduct fault finding across all areas of Engineering responsibility.
• Collaborate with Campus Operations and other teams with regards to projects.
• Conduct fault finding across all engineering infrastructures.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns
• Comply with all statutory, company and client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the college environment.
• Complete paperwork and comments for/on the CAFM system to a high standard
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required e.g. Fit For King’