Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)

Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical) - Cardiff & Vale University Health Board

Closing date: 04 December 2025

Overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Estates & Facilities Department supporting our Water Safety Team. The role works alongside Estates Operational Teams providing day to day maintenance across the UHB estate. We seek an experienced individual from a Mechanical/Plumbing background to support continuous water safety service provision for one of Wales' largest Health Boards.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex and non routine activities including calibration and fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment such as hot and cold water systems, low pressure hot water systems, steam raising plant and associated equipment, steam sterilizers, medical gas pipe systems and ventilation systems, hydrotherapy pools, water sampling and testing, plumbing works and water compliance testing.
• Work within the Water Hygiene Team to provide a safe, well maintained water system, working towards set standards for water systems and environment.
• Undertake planned maintenance, reactive repairs, minor improvements and support other trades and discretionary capital work across the UHB as directed by management.
• Ensure compliance with UHB safety standards and procedures at all times.
• Provide multi skilled engineering expertise across various mechanical equipment and fabric.
• Understand, receive and give technical instructions to other maintenance workers and provide advice and instruction to other maintenance workers.
• Provide reports both verbal and written to Team Leaders and M&E Managers.
• Liaise with senior clinical staff at ward/department level regarding maintenance tasks enabling work tasks to be carried out with minimum disruption to patient support services and patient care.
• Conduct workload in an unobtrusive manner, ensuring clinical and departmental staff in the locality are made aware of any disruption or potential noise etc. to ensure minimum distress levels to patients.
• Liaise appropriately with external suppliers and contractors, dealing with technical queries and information.

Qualifications and Experience

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
• Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Skills

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
• Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services across six hospital sites. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.