Login to Apply

Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician

Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: typically, up to 40 hours per week
Additional information: Shift pattern 6:00 am - 15:00 pm (including one week on call)
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
Location description: RNLI Support Centre, Poole, Dorset
Interview date: To be confirmed
Closing Date: 18-06-2025
Reference: 19372

About Us

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.

We’re looking for a Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician to join our facilities team. RNLI Facilities supports the RNLI through assisting with the maintenance of the built environment, in order that the organisation may meet its business objectives.

This position and team are based in Poole, primarily looking after our largest site of seven buildings including the RNLI College and the Sea Survival Training Centre (a hotel and our main training facility), the All-Weather Lifeboat Centre (where we build and maintain lifeboats), and our main offices and stores spaces.

Some of the Benefits

- Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)
- 26 days’ annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
- Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
- Life assurance
- Working for a world-leading lifesaving organisation on our fascinating multi-building, multi-discipline Poole site
- Health and dental cash plan
 
Your Role

As a hands-on, multi-skilled Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician, you will provide specialist technical expertise to support the Facilities team in providing an appropriate built environment for all staff, visitors and volunteers on the Poole site.

You will also:

- Be the go-to multi-skilled Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician responsible for proactively carrying out routine planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and addressing reactive calls via the helpdesk.
- Planning new installations with either self-completion or technical supervision of specialist contractors.
- Responsible for maintaining mechanical and plumbing critical spares.
- Manage your own workload with reference to the reactive helpdesk and PPMs.
- Manage procurement of materials.
- Identify energy-saving initiatives and implement opportunities to reduce energy consumption. Monitor and make alterations to temperature and plant controls via a BMS system. Ensure energy-saving BMS controls are working in accordance with best practices.

About You

You’ll be someone who enjoys working in a service environment. You will need to have a pragmatic, positive approach to the job and towards customers. To be considered as a Facilities Heating and Mechanical Technician, you will need:

Essential

- Commercial plumbing experience, experience in air handling unit/ventilation systems maintenance and fault finding; NVQ level 2 or higher in Plumbing or equivalent in relevant trade/skill.
- Time-served apprentice, with post-apprenticeship work experience.
- Full driving licence.

Desirable

- Electrical Qualification, IPAF, PASMA, Asbestos Awareness, Legionella Awareness Training, Building Management Systems User Training, Unvented Water Heater Systems.
- Experience required: Commercial Plumbing and Mechanical, Building Management Systems controls experience, Legionella compliance, HVAC, mechanical and electrical related service.

Other organisations may call this role Heating Engineer, Facilities Technician, or Multi-Skilled Building Engineer.

So, if you want to see how this role supports our organisation’s aim to reduce drowning, this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One