Mechanical Technician

at  Kings College London

Job id: 089285. Salary: £32,979 - £36,396 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 08 May 2024. Closing date: 19 May 2024.
Business unit: Estates & Facilities. Department: Engineering - Strand.
Contact details: Denis Murphy. Denis.murphy@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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Job description
Responsible for undertaking Hard Services planned preventative and reactive maintenance across all College buildings, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and College compliance requirements.
The role is critical to maintaining College functions and is part of a specialist team of operational maintenance technicians focussing upon critical, essential, Statutory
and non-essential systems and asset operational maintenance.
The Maintenance team will have responsibility for the operational performance and safety of their buildings at all times, and will have responsibility for liaising with specialist sub contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime.

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

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business critical systems across the Estate.
• Carry out the planned preventative maintenance programme and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the sites critical, electrical and HVAC services.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Conduct fault finding across all engineering infrastructures.
• Conduct statutory system & asset testing, and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all Statutory, Company and Client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the College environment.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of Customer focused service and participated in additional training when required (Fit For King’s, ISO14001 environmental management system etc).

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. Level 3 award/certificate in mechanical field or equivalent or time serviced apprenticeship (Mechanical) and strong, demonstrable competencies in mechanical trades
2. Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs
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. IOSH Managing Safely
2. Building Management Systems experience

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

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business critical systems across the Estate.
• Carry out the planned preventative maintenance programme and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the sites critical, electrical and HVAC services.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Conduct fault finding across all engineering infrastructures.
• Conduct statutory system & asset testing, and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all Statutory, Company and Client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the College environment.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of Customer focused service and participated in additional training when required (Fit For King’s, ISO14001 environmental management system etc)