Maintenance Engineer

The National Space Centre is looking to hire a Maintenance Engineer to work within the Building Service team to consistently produce a high standard of maintenance within the Centre, and to be responsible for the day-to-day building maintenance and repair for our centre including responsive and planned maintenance.

Full-Time: 35 hours per week.

Salary: £27,558 to £29,625 depending upon skills and experience

Closing date for applications is 9am Wednesday 21st January. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on Thursday 29th January at The National Space Centre.

Please note - We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we receive a suitable number of high-quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

Further information about the National Space Centre may be found on our website www.spacecentre.co.uk

Candidate privacy statement: https://spacecentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/National-Space-Centre-GDPR-Candidate-privacy-notice.pdf

Key Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the day-to-day building maintenance and repair for our centre including responsive and planned maintenance.


• To manage all services including heat, light, water, plumbing and ventilation to ensure they work at peak efficiency using the Building Management System to increase cost effectiveness.


• To diagnose faults with the building facilities and to work pro-actively to repair and return to good working order.


• To undertake daily, weekly, and monthly checks.


• To be responsible for all equipment and tools in the workshop ensuring maintenance requirements are met and the area is maintained in a safe, clean, and tidy manner.


• To work with the maintenance team leader on planned third party maintenance via contractors.


• To work safely and carry out risk assessments, COSHH assessments and safety checks.


• To work flexibly within the company to ensure the needs of the business are met.


• While undertaking duties, always maintain the highest standard of customer care and customer service and be approachable and courteous.


• Adhere to all Health and Safety procedures and carry out risk assessments for all duties.


• To undertake any other tasks consummate with the post, as directed by the Building Services Manager or other members of the management team.


• Undertake in-house and external training as necessary.


• These tasks are indicative of the role and are not exhaustive.

Person Specification

• A broad spectrum of general maintenance skills across a range of disciplines including plumbing, carpentry, electrics, painting and mechanical.


• Team player with the ability to liaise cross departmentally to meet requirements.


• Well organised, able to work independently and priorities workload.


• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills.


• Licence to operate a cherry picker/ mobile platform (desirable)


• Working at Heights

Knowledge/Skills/Qualifications

• City & Guilds


• NVQ 3


• Computer Literate

Workplace 

The National Space Centre offices in Leicester.

A Disclosure and Barring Service is required for this role. Information about the Disclosure service can be found at the Directgov website.