King's College London

About us:

Kings College London is a world class university and the department of Estates and Facilities, Engineering Strand is responsible for maintaining reactive, planned and compliance services across the Campus for all staff, students and visitors.

About the role:

Responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance throughout College buildings, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and statutory compliance requirements. Ensuring records of planned and reactive maintenance are kept up to date and to a high standard.

The role will have responsibility for the operational performance and safety of buildings at all times and will liaise with specialist sub-contractors, other building dedicated engineers and clients to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime.

The Mechanical Technician will be expected to optimise and analyse performance, whilst problem solving and offering creative solutions.

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Manage and conduct fault finding.
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the College environment.
• Minimise the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability centred and conditioned based proactive maintenance process.
• Required to participate in a rostered 24 hour on-call system providing emergency service during non-working hours, at weekends and bank holidays.
• To undertake training and qualify as Authorised / Responsible / Competent Person as required.
• To undertake such other duties appropriate to the level and character of work as may reasonably be required within the Department.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required (Fit for King’s, etc).

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills 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 and IT literate (Excel, Teams and other Microsoft packages)

6.      Team player and flexible attitude, attention to detail and strong problem solving skills

7.      Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests

8.      Ability to use, repair and maintain tools

Desirable criteria

1.      First Aid

2.      Knowledge and understanding of working in critical environments

3.      IOSH Working Safely

4.      BMS knowledge

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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