Job overview

Join a team where your skills keep vital services running.

As an Estates Maintenance Craftsperson – Mechanical, you’ll play a key role in supporting the safe, efficient operation of essential engineering systems across West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust sites. Working within the Estates team, you’ll help maintain and improve a wide range of plant, equipment, and building services that underpin high-quality patient care.

This is a hands-on role where your mechanical expertise will directly contribute to the reliability and performance of critical infrastructure. From planned preventative maintenance to fault finding and repairs, you’ll ensure systems operate to the highest standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency.

You’ll be part of a dedicated, professional team responsible for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors. Your work will have real impact—ensuring hospitals and healthcare facilities remain fully operational around the clock.

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated individual with strong mechanical and plumbing knowledge, a proactive approach, and a commitment to quality workmanship. In return, you’ll benefit from a supportive team environment, opportunities for ongoing development, and the chance to build a rewarding career within the NHS.

If you take pride in your craft and want your work to truly matter, this is the role for you.

Main duties of the job

         To perform work including activities which are complex and/or non-routine

·      To be responsible for maintenance repairs, calibration and fault finding on a wide range of mechanical engineering plant and equipment such as but not limited to Low Pressure Hot Water Systems, Steam Raising Plant and associated equipment, Cold Water Systems, Plumbing Systems, Steam Sterilizers, Medical Gas Pipe Systems and Washer Disinfectors.

·      To undertake new installations and improvements across the Trust as directed by management ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures

·         The post holder will report to the Estates Team Leaders on a daily basis.

·         The Senior Estates Manager ‘may’ require the post holder to participate in the Estates out of hours on-call service after suitable training.  They must work flexibly; including working one weekend day per month to conduct PPM and reactive tasks (a selected day in lieu will be awarded the following working week).  Overtime is available and encouraged.

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?