Maintenance Assistant

Overview

Engineering Assistant
Private Healthcare Facility - West Yorkshire
Permanent | 37.5 Hours Per Week
Salary:
Up to £26,500 per annum (dependent on experience, training, and qualifications).

A well-established private healthcare provider is seeking an Engineering Assistant to join its on-site Engineering team at a modern healthcare facility in West Yorkshire. This is a full-time, permanent position working 37.5 hours per week. The role requires flexibility to support operational demands and occasional assistance across nearby sites within the regional cluster.

• The successful candidate will provide hands-on technical support to site-based engineering staff, helping ensure building services, infrastructure, and equipment are maintained to high safety and compliance standards.
• Support Senior Engineering and Engineering Technicians with routine and reactive tasks, and provide supplementary engineering support to other regional sites when required.
• Respond to reactive maintenance calls in line with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and ensure remedial actions following statutory inspections are completed as instructed.
• Undertake Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) tasks in accordance with standard operating procedures, in line with the individual’s competency level, with support from the wider engineering team.
• Ensure PPM completion across the cluster and comply with mandatory training and governance requirements.

• Applicants should hold an engineering qualification or be willing to work towards a recognised specialist engineering discipline.
• A valid CSCS card at the appropriate level is required, and where electrically qualified, a current ECS card must also be held.
• Demonstrate understanding of quality management, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement principles, and a good working knowledge of health and safety legislation and applicable statutory requirements.
• Aware of Legionella prevention and control requirements within healthcare or commercial buildings.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, good organisational and time-management abilities, and sound fault-finding and problem-solving techniques.

The employer offers a competitive salary alongside a comprehensive benefits package, including annual leave allowance plus bank holidays that increases with length of service, access to a pension scheme, private healthcare cover, employee discount and rewards platforms, enhanced family-friendly policies, life assurance, wellbeing resources, employee recognition programmes, and ongoing training and professional development opportunities.

This is a permanent position working 37.5 hours per week, operating on a flexible shift pattern, with opportunities to develop within a regulated healthcare engineering environment.