Mechanical Engineer - Healthcare Estates (HTM Level 3)
Location: Hospital / Healthcare Site
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join the estates team at a hospital site, helping to ensure the safe, reliable and compliant operation of critical building services.
This is an excellent opportunity for a mechanically qualified engineer with healthcare estates experience to work in a live hospital environment, maintaining essential mechanical infrastructure and supporting the delivery of a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.
You will be responsible for planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance, fault diagnosis and repairs across a range of mechanical building services, ensuring all work is completed in line with relevant HTM guidance, statutory requirements and site procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across mechanical building services.
- Diagnose faults and undertake repairs to mechanical plant and associated equipment.
- Maintain heating systems, boilers, pumps, valves, pressurisation units and expansion vessels.
- Maintain domestic hot and cold water systems, calorifiers, heat exchangers and associated pipework.
- Work on air handling units, ventilation systems, LTHW, CHW and other closed water systems.
- Support the maintenance of critical hospital plant, minimising downtime and disruption to services.
- Ensure maintenance activities comply with relevant HTM guidance, statutory requirements and safe systems of work.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records, service reports and compliance documentation.
- Support specialist contractors, inspections, audits and minor project works.
- Identify and elevate defects, risks, non-compliance and potential plant failures.
Essential Requirements
- NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Plumbing, Heating or Building Services Engineering.
- Previous experience working within hospital or healthcare estates, or a similarly regulated environment.
- Demonstrable experience maintaining mechanical building services.
- Experience carrying out PPM, reactive maintenance and fault-finding.
- Good understanding of healthcare compliance requirements, HTM guidance and safe systems of work.
- Experience working with permit-to-work procedures and isolation processes.
- A safety-focused approach, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- HTM Level 3 or equivalent healthcare engineering training.
- Experience with water systems, ventilation, pressure systems or medical gases, where relevant.
- Legionella awareness or water hygiene training.
- Confined space or IOSH Working Safely training.
- Experience using CAFM, Maximo or similar maintenance management systems.
- AP / CP training or experience in relevant engineering disciplines.
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