Job overview

The role holder is responsible for the supervision, planning and allocation of Estates trade staff and external contractors who undertake maintenance repairs and minor new works installations on a wide range of building, engineering plant and equipment across the Trust and community sites.

The post is primarily based at Newmarket with responsibility for that site and the Trusts community sites. They will also be required to support at other locations

Main duties of the job

The role holder will provide technical assistance to staff and contractors on issues that are complex and non routine ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.

 The role holder will be responsible for all contractor management at their sites including administration of the Trust Permit to Work Scheme.

 The role holder will be responsible for maintaining  the departments Planned Preventative Maintenance and reactive works programme and to ensure that all PPMs are compliant to current mandatory and statutory legislation  and up to date with new assets as they come on line.

 To undertake complex fault diagnosis on building services, fault rectification, maintenance and capital works across the Trust. In addition, the post holder will be required to plan minor improvement work as directed by the Estates manager or their nominated officers.

 The post holder will be responsible on a daily basis to the Estates Operations Maintenance Manager.

The post holder will ideally have a building background with good all round skills in domestic, industrial and commercial maintenance fields.

 The role holder will be required to be an Authorised Person (AP) in relevant services after suitable training.

 The role holder will be required to participate in the departments Senior Engineers On-Call out of hours service.

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?