Builder, Building Maintenance, Maintenance Technician ​/ Mechanic

Closing Date and Role Type

Closing Date: 9th January 2026 at 23:59 (GMT).

Role Type:
Full Time, Permanent.

This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. The successful candidate(s) will have to ensure that they have the right to work in the UK or be able to secure this through another means without the sponsorship of the University. Further information about sponsorship is available on the UK Visas and Immigration Website.

Occupying three beautiful campuses (Whiteknights, with its early 19th century planned landscape, London Road with its formal gardens and ceremonial Great Hall, and Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, with its riverside garden landscape) the unique “University within a Park” setting of the University of Reading is an inspiring place to come to work.

With such a varied portfolio, there is never a dull day in the Estates Team here  well as being responsible for the management and maintenance of the University’s academic teaching and research buildings, we also care for a significant collection of Champion Trees, an expansive lake, and the university Sports Park.

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and flexible tradesperson to join the Campus Operations team, within Estates, offering a reactive service and maintaining building fabric in University owned properties across all our campuses and sites.

• Maintain, fault find, repair, and carry out installations on a wide variety of building fabric tasks.
• Carry out routine inspections and the building fabric planned preventative program maintenance.
• Provide an effective and prompt customer focussed, professional and efficient service to the University in accordance with its requirements, aims, objectives and Service Level Agreements using prior knowledge and experience.
• Manage and prioritise own workload; updating the CAFM system and customers as required and carry out all work in a safe manner in accordance with university policies and procedures, safe systems of work, and current legislation.
• Operate a 36 hour working week and be part of our on-call rota offering a 24/7 service to the University. The call out duty attracts a generous stand by allowance and overtime payments for all call outs.

• Competitive salary and recognised reward strategy.
• Pension scheme sponsored by the University.
• Family friendly policies, including a childcare voucher scheme.
• Health and well-being benefits: discounted membership at the Sports Park, Employee Assistance Programme, Health Cash Plan.
• Generous holiday entitlements including public holidays and paid closure days.
• Social events such as quiz nights, Easter egg hunt, staff appreciation days.

When completing the application, you should match your qualifications, training, skills and experience to the job description giving full details and filling in all sections.

Contact Name: Andy Malin

Job Title: Reactive Maintenance Manager

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Alternative Contact Name: Guneet Bhatti

Job Title: Interim Head of Reactive Maintenance

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The University is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce, supports the gender equality Athena SWAN Charter and the Race Equality Charter, and champions LGBT+ equality. We are a Disability Confident Employer (Level
2). Applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements are welcomed and will be considered in line with business needs.