Maintenance Technician

You will be a member of the Estates and Facilities team at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) working as a Maintenance Technician. As part of the team, and dependant on your experience and expertise, your focus will be either be electrical or mechanical (or multi-skilled). As such you will be responsible for the electrical and/or mechanical servicing and repairs at the main LMB building and other LMB sites on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and Babraham Research Campus. The workload is varied, and priorities can change at short notice.

Main duties / Key responsibilities:

You will be responsible for providing electrical and/or mechanical planned and preventive maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance (RM) on all plant systems and services.

You will undertake works on behalf of the Estates & Facilities team including supervising external service providers and contractors.

You will liaise with end users to plan in maintenance works or project works as required.

You will be responsible for interrogating the computer-controlled Building Management Systems (BMS) to monitor and identify fault diagnostics, taking the appropriate action to resolve these.

You will oversee the operation of the steam boilers and systems. Steam is used extensively throughout our sites and training will be given as required.

You will undertake on-call duties approximately 6-8 weeks per annum, responding to callouts when off-site.

You may assist in the mentoring of apprentices.

Working relationships:

You will report to the Services Coordinator and will be part of the Estates and Facilities team.

You will interact with members of the LMB, effectively communicating with them to establish their needs and communicate these needs both orally and through written specifications to those carrying out the work.

You will interact with external service providers and contractors.

Education / qualifications / training required:

Previous work experience required:

Knowledge and experience:

Closing Date Monday 4th March 2024, however we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Corporate/Local responsibilities & requirements

Job descriptions should be reviewed on a regular basis and at the annual appraisal. Any changes should be made and agreed between you and your manager.

The above lists are not exhaustive and you are required to undertake such duties as may reasonably be requested within the scope of the post. All employees are required to act professionally, co-operatively and flexibly in line with the requirements of the post, the MRC and UKRI.

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.