Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (Healthcare Estates)

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (Healthcare Estates) – Great Western Hospital, Swindon

Company: Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency

Location: Great Western Hospital, SN3 6BB

Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum + plus excellent benefits

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time (Rotating two-week shift pattern: Week 1 early shifts 07:00–15:30, Week 2 late shifts 10:30–19:00, plus mandatory weekend and out-of-hours call-out rota participation)

Job ID: 311109

Ready to impact a better future?

Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency is proud to partner with critical healthcare facilities to connect skilled technical professionals with vital estates maintenance roles. We are currently recruiting a dedicated Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join our Health team at Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

In this essential role, you will deliver safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance of critical mechanical building services across a busy acute hospital. By maintaining essential infrastructure and responding to plant failures, your expertise ensures that patient safety, clinical continuity, and hospital operations continue uninterrupted.

What You’ll Do

As a Mechanical Technician, your responsibilities will include:

• Planned & Reactive Maintenance: Complete planned preventive maintenance (PPM), reactive repairs, inspections, servicing, fault-finding, and testing on mechanical building services.

• Plant & Equipment Care: Maintain and repair boilers, pumps, heating and chilled water systems, calorifiers, pressure systems, and ventilation units (air handling units, extract systems, fans, filters).

• Emergency Response: Respond promptly to plant failures, alarms, leaks, and service interruptions to protect critical hospital services.

• System Documentation: Accurately record maintenance activity, repairs, asset details, and compliance evidence using Computerised Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) systems.

• Safety & Compliance: Work safely in strict accordance with permits, risk assessments, healthcare guidance, statutory regulations, and local safe systems of work.

What We Are Looking For

• Qualifications: A recognised mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent structured training, supported by a relevant Level 3 qualification (such as NVQ, City and Guilds) in mechanical engineering, plumbing, heating, building services, or HVAC.

• Experience: Demonstrable experience maintaining mechanical building services within a commercial, industrial, healthcare, or similarly regulated environment.

• Technical Skills: Strong fault-finding and repair capabilities, with a solid understanding of safe systems of work, permit-to-work procedures, and mechanical isolation processes.

• IT Literacy: Comfortable using CAFM or maintenance management systems to record activity.

• Flexibility: Able and willing to participate in rotating shift patterns, weekend working, and out-of-hours call-out arrangements.

Vetting and Checks

This role requires a Standard DBS check (covering spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act), alongside the completion of an Occupational Health Questionnaire.

What We Offer

• Competitive Pay: Up to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits.

• Leave & Pension: 33 days’ holiday inclusive of bank holidays, and an up to 6% contributory pension scheme.

• Training & Career Progression: Access to over 1,100 internal courses, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (over 60 options available), mentoring, and internal progression pathways.

• Health & Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 24/7 virtual GP service, and 30% off at managed leisure centres.

• Perks & Community: Savings across ~1,000 retailers, a paid volunteering day, tax-free payroll giving, and active employee inclusion networks.