FACILITIES HEATING AND MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN

Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: typically, up to 40 hours per week
Additional information: Shift pattern 6:00 am - 15:00 pm (including one week on call)
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
Location description: RNLI Support Centre, Poole, Dorset
Interview date: To be confirmed
Closing Date: 18-06-2025
Reference: 19372

ABOUT US

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
We’re looking for a Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician to join our facilities team. RNLI Facilities supports the RNLI through assisting with the maintenance of the built environment, in order that the organisation may meet its business objectives.
This position and team are based in Poole, primarily looking after our largest site of seven buildings including the RNLI College and the Sea Survival Training Centre (a hotel and our main training facility), the All-Weather Lifeboat Centre (where we build and maintain lifeboats), and our main offices and stores spaces.

As a hands-on, multi-skilled Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician, you will provide specialist technical expertise to support the Facilities team in providing an appropriate built environment for all staff, visitors and volunteers on the Poole site.
You will also:
- Be the go-to multi-skilled Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician responsible for proactively carrying out routine planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and addressing reactive calls via the helpdesk.
- Planning new installations with either self-completion or technical supervision of specialist contractors.
- Responsible for maintaining mechanical and plumbing critical spares.
- Manage your own workload with reference to the reactive helpdesk and PPMs.
- Manage procurement of materials.
- Identify energy-saving initiatives and implement opportunities to reduce energy consumption. Monitor and make alterations to temperature and plant controls via a BMS system. Ensure energy-saving BMS controls are working in accordance with best practices.