Mechanical Technician - Minor Works Team

Closing Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2026, 11:59 pm.

About the Role
The Mechanical Technician provides an efficient, business critical response service and routine maintenance for all plumbing and mechanical building services and associated equipment installed throughout the University including heating/ventilation systems. The role ensures all statutory, planned and breakdown works are completed safely, cost effectively and to the agreed KPI’s and Service Level Agreement.

The role is part of the Minor Works Team.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description (link here).

About You
Respond to individual job requests via the job notification system, ensuring each job is resolved safely, efficiently and to the required standard within target SLAs.

You will provide an effective and efficient business critical responsive service for all mechanical building services installed throughout the University including heating/ventilation, air conditioning, and gas fired plant, BMS controls, power supplies, lighting systems and motors.

Provide a planned maintenance and reactive remedial work service, directing other trades where necessary to keep essential facilities open and usable, including ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of LPHW boiler plant, heating systems, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and other mechanical and equipment as generated from the computerised docket system on a planned basis.

Arranging downtime for plant and equipment, in / out of normal hours.

Action work and restore equipment to normal running condition.

Monitor / review any work carried out to ensure no faults have been introduced into the system and provide recommendations for altering frequency of maintenance routines. Analyse, fault find and make decisions about the feasibility and logistics of the jobs to be undertaken, considering how long it will take, the equipment needed and the potential cost liaising with the Manager if necessary.

Investigate unidentified problems, including diagnosing problems and suggesting courses of action and/or identifying whether the problem can be dealt with or if specialist assistance is required.

Deal appropriately with emergencies.

Provide advice or suggestions in relation to the installation of new products and equipment and participate in the preparation, fabrication and installation of refurbishment, new projects and new work where required.

About the Department
The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s great success stories. In less than fifty years we have become one of the country’s best universities and can be consistently found in the top 10 of UK league tables and rapidly climbing the international rankings of world-class universities.
We have an exciting future ahead and if you have the enthusiasm and ambition to help us realise it, we would love for you to be a part of it.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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