Senior Maintenance Technician in Oxford

Location: Oxfordshire (OAS Facility)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 36 hours per week

Benefits: Private medical insurance, double pension contribution, lease car scheme, cycle to work scheme, 25 days’ holiday plus public holidays, and more.

About Us: The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is a world‑leading organisation at the forefront of engineering innovation. Home to some of the UK’s brightest engineering minds, we work with hundreds of industrial partners across automotive, aerospace, rail, construction, food & drink and more.

The Opportunity: We are looking for an experienced Facilities Coordinator to play a pivotal role at our Oxfordshire Advanced Skills (OAS) facility. Reporting directly to the Maintenance Operations Manager, you’ll ensure the site remains a safe, welcoming and best‑in‑class working environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the local lead for all facilities and property matters at the OAS site.
• Build and manage effective relationships with landlord representatives and act as the single point of contact.
• Serve as the main customer contact for all site users regarding facilities services.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring statutory compliance and best practice.
• Diagnose faults and oversee effective repairs across building services and equipment.
• Support site security, access control and business resilience arrangements.
• Ensure all works meet health, safety, environmental and quality standards.
• Manage contractor and supplier performance in line with MTC policy.
• Support continuous improvement, cost‑saving initiatives and net‑zero objectives.
• Oversee local utilities and energy management.
• Act as a workplace ambassador, ensuring a positive employee and visitor experience.
• Support emergency response arrangements, including out‑of‑hours escalation.

Essential What You’ll Bring:

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a maintenance discipline.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a customer‑facing facilities or estates role.
• IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• Broad knowledge of hard and soft FM services.
• Strong stakeholder and supplier management skills.
• Experience working in a Higher Education or similar environment.
• Commercial awareness with experience reviewing cost proposals.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office 365.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Resilience, adaptability and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Desirable:

• NEBOSH National General Certificate.
• Experience using SLA/KPI frameworks for performance management.
• ISO accreditation experience.

Reference Checks and Security Checks: Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.