Mechanical Technician - Minor Works Team
Job Title: Mechanical Technician - Minor Works Team
Reference: 594
Department: Estates - Maintenance Operations - Building Fabric
Contract Type: Indefinite
Hours: Full-time, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Closing Date: Tuesday 24 November 2026, 11:59 pm
Full time Salary Range: £31,861.00 - £35,302.00 per annum
About the Role
The Mechanical Technician provides an efficient, business critical response service and routine maintenance for all plumbing and mechanical building services and associated equipment installed throughout the University including heating/ventilation systems. The role ensures all statutory, planned and breakdown works are completed safely, cost effectively and to the agreed KPI’s and Service Level Agreement.
The role is part of the Minor Works Team.
For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description (link here).
About You
Respond to individual job requests via the job notification system, ensuring each job is resolved safely, efficiently and to the required standard within target SLAs.
You will provide an effective and efficient business critical responsive service for all mechanical building services installed throughout the University including heating/ventilation, air conditioning, and gas fired plant, BMS controls, power supplies, lighting systems and motors.
Provide a planned maintenance and reactive remedial work service, directing other trades where necessary to keep essential facilities open and usable, including ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of LPHW boiler plant, heating systems, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and other mechanical and equipment as generated from the computerised docket system on a planned basis.
Arranging downtime for plant and equipment, in / out of normal hours.
Action work and restore equipment to normal running condition.
Monitor / review any work carried out to ensure no faults have been introduced into the system and provide recommendations for altering frequency of maintenance routines. Analyse, fault find and make decisions about the feasibility and logistics of the jobs to be undertaken, considering how long it will take, the equipment needed and the potential cost liaising with the Manager if necessary.
Investigate unidentified problems, including diagnosing problems and suggesting courses of action and/or identifying whether the problem can be dealt with or if specialist assistance is required.
Deal appropriately with emergencies.
Provide advice or suggestions in relation to the installation of new products and equipment and participate in the preparation, fabrication and installation of refurbishment, new projects and new work where required.
About the Department
The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s great success stories. In less than fifty years we have become one of the country’s best universities and can be consistently found in the top 10 of UK league tables and rapidly climbing the international rankings of world-class universities.
We have an exciting future ahead and if you have the enthusiasm and ambition to help us realise it, we would love for you to be a part of it.
How to Apply
To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date stated.
We will review applications throughout the advertising period and may contact shortlisted candidates before the closing date. We therefore encourage interested applicants to submit their application as early as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications.
Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history.
Your cover letter should detail your motivation for applying for the role as well as detailing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.
The interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, a generous holiday allowance plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
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Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.
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