View Vacancy -- Maintenance Technician x 2 LMS 2693

Open Date
22/08/2025, 08:00
Close Date
21/09/2025, 23:55
MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
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The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. LMS is one of three directly funded MRC research institutes and enjoys close links with our partners at Imperial College London and at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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MRC - 5
London
£37,752 - £39,768 per annum, inclusive of London allowance plus additional allowance of up to £5,000 will be considered for exceptional candidates
Permanent
Technical & Scientific Professionals
Full Time

Overall purpose:

You will be a member of the Estates team at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) working as a Maintenance Technician. As part of the team, and dependent on your experience and expertise, your focus will be either be electrical or mechanical (or multi-skilled). As such you will be responsible for supporting the electrical and/or mechanical servicing and repairs at the main LMS building and other LMS sites on the Hammersmith Hospital Campus. The workload is varied, and priorities can change at short notice.

 

Main duties / Key responsibilities:

  • to be responsible for providing electrical and/or mechanical reactive maintenance (RM) on all plant systems and services. You will also help to manage and deliver project works
  • to undertake works on behalf of the Estates team including supervising external service providers and contractors
  • to liaise with end users to plan in repair works or project works as required.
  • to be responsible for interrogating the computer-controlled Building Management Systems (BMS) to monitor and identify fault diagnostics, taking the appropriate action to resolve these
  • to undertake on-call duties approximately 6-8 weeks per annum, responding to callouts when off-site

 

Working relationships:

You will report to the Hard Services Manager and will be part of the Estates team within the wider LMS Research Environment function.

You will interact with members of the LMS, 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 also work closely with other members of the Research Environment team to coordinate works with minimal disruption to science e.g. Health & Safety, Lab Services, Soft Services

You will interact with external service providers and contractors.

Education / qualifications / training required:

Essential:

  • Completed a recognised electrical or mechanical apprenticeship or hold the equivalent qualifications

Desirable:

  • Formal Health & Safety (H&S) qualifications and ability to undertake risk assessments

Previous work experience required:

Essential:

  • Experience of working in a complex building with responsibility for electrical and/or mechanical systems.
  • Experience of supervising external contractors

Desirable:

  • Experience in a scientific environment

Knowledge and experience:

Essential:

  • Good working knowledge of engineering services coupled with a good understanding of all aspects of building maintenance
  • An understanding of work-related H&S risks, and how to mitigate against the risks
  • Experience of using a BMS system
  • An understanding of HVAC systems

Desirable:

  • An understanding of statutory maintenance requirements
  • Experience of estimating correct quantity of materials to complete maintenance and/or project works

Personal skills / behaviours / qualities

IT skills

Essential:

  • Competent IT skills including use of Microsoft Office
  • Competent working with handheld devices (iPhone/tablets etc) and “smart” technology

Communications skills

Essential:

  • Ability to effectively communicate with users and service providers, establishing the needs of the users and communicating these needs both orally and through written specifications to those carrying out the work
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels
  • Ability to listen to others, understand and interpret their views, analyse, and provide advice/solutions

Organisation skills and initiative

Essential:

  • Ability to plan and prioritise work without or under limited supervision
  • Ability to use initiative when required
  • Ability to adapt, as the workload is varied and priorities can change at short notice, which may require working outside normal working hours (overtime is payable)
  • Ability to work flexibly, as on-call cover duties need to be undertaken

Team working

Essential:

  • Ability to work as part of a team or independently
  • Ability to work under pressure but constructively, collaboratively, and productively with colleagues at all levels within the LMS and externally

Applicants should submit a CV, along with the names and contact details of two references. Please quote reference number LMS 2693.

Please note that applications may be reviewed by both LMS and Imperial staff.

The MRC is a unique working environment where scientific researchers and professional support staff can actively partake in world class innovation and collaboration opportunities and their skills and knowledge through accessing a wide catalogue of  training & development, including professional registration with the Science Council.

In addition, MRC (part of UKRI) provides its community of employees access to a whole host of useful benefits, including a defined benefit pension scheme and excellent holiday entitlement (30 days plus 2.5 privilege days & 8 bank holidays), family friendly policies (6 months full pay maternity & adoption leave),  a range of shopping/travel discounts, access to our Employee Assistant Programme Scheme, Health and Wellbeing Support and a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.  Please follow this link to find out more - Benefits

Our success is dependent upon our ability to embrace diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of all our people. We warmly invite people from diverse backgrounds and heritage, including people who identify as having a disability, to apply for a role that excites them.   As "Disability Confident" employers, any candidate who opts into the scheme and best meets the essential criteria, will be shortlisted for interview. 

UKRI supports research in areas that include animal health, agriculture and food security, and bioscience for health which includes research on animals, genetic modification and stem cell research. Whilst you may not have direct involvement in this type of research, you should consider whether this conflicts with your personal values or beliefs.

We will conduct a full and comprehensive pre-employment check as an essential part of the recruitment process on all individuals that are offered a position with UKRI. This will include a security check and an extreme organisations affiliation check.  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.

This opportunity is closed to applications.