Specialist Mechanical Craftsperson

Specialist Mechanical Craftsperson

Closing date: 27 July 2026

As a Mechanical Craftsperson you will install, maintain, service, and repair a diverse range of estate services equipment, ensuring the safety and reliability of our facility’s mechanical systems.

Key responsibilities

• Calibrate, fault find, and repair engineering plant and equipment, including medical gas systems, heating and ventilation systems, steam, domestic water services, and other hospital plant.
• Diagnose and repair faults in mechanical engineering plant and equipment, handling new and unusual situations.
• Re‑assemble, erect, and install new work.
• Plan and organise complex activities such as shutdowns and power interruptions.
• Carry out planned preventive maintenance inspections and commissioning tests in accordance with maintenance manuals and trust procedures.
• Follow detailed engineering drawings and specifications and use relevant tools and equipment within safety guidelines.
• Work autonomously across trust sites, ensuring patient, public and staff safety.
• Participate in statutory training and ongoing professional development.

About the Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare services through Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital, employing over 13,000 staff. CUH is committed to inclusive and high‑quality care.

Eligibility

• Student visa holders cannot be offered a full‑time permanent contract unless they have applied for a Graduate Visa before the start date.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements including part‑time, job‑share, and flexible start and finish times.
• Support for work‑life balance and professional development.

Qualifications

• BTEC HNC/HND, Approved Apprenticeship, City and Guilds or NVQ III Technician Certificate or equivalent.
• Qualifications and experience in Control Systems or Mechanical/Motor Control, Medical Gas Pipeline and Vacuum Systems, Decontamination Equipment and Sterilisation.

Experience

• Workload assessment and allocation.
• Experience working in an industrial or hospital maintenance environment.
• Mechanical services systems maintenance.
• Experience with mechanical systems, natural gas systems, and hospital settings.

Knowledge

• Mechanical services and electrical control systems.
• Hospital equipment, ventilation and cooling, steam systems, and building management systems.

Skills

• High quality mechanical work: fault finding, installation, maintenance.
• Administration: updating worksheets, job tickets, data entry, PPM worksheets.
• Effective verbal and written communication with senior management and clinical users.
• Leadership: capable of standing in for a supervisor, prioritising work, issuing job tickets.
• Teamwork and independent working ability.
• Pipe welding.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 per year, pro rata, plus £5,000 per annum.

Contract

Permanent

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