Building Fabric Technician
Company
Location
Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Employment Type
Contract, Contract
Salary
£33,951 - £37,694 a year
Job Highlights
- Join a hands-on role maintaining diverse academic and historic buildings, delivering exceptional environments for students and staff.
- Ideal candidates will possess a recognised qualification, proven building maintenance experience, and skills in multiple trades.
- The role is based in Bath, with full-time hours and offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive team environment.
Job Requirements/Description
Join Bath Spa University's Estates team and help maintain a diverse portfolio of academic, residential and historic buildings.
This varied hands-on role offers the opportunity to work across multiple trades, preserving and improving our estate while delivering an excellent environment for students, staff and visitors.
Salary Grade 6 - Starting from £33,951 rising to £37,694 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Please see Special Conditions for this role below:
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Description
Join Bath Spa University's Estates team and help maintain a diverse portfolio of academic, residential and historic buildings.
This varied hands-on role offers the opportunity to work across multiple trades, preserving and improving our estate while delivering an excellent environment for students, staff and visitors.
About the Role
- Deliver planned preventative and reactive maintenance across the University estate.
- Carry out carpentry and joinery works, including repairs within listed and historic buildings.
- Maintain and repair doors, ironmongery, locks and access control systems.
- Undertake roofing repairs and general building fabric maintenance.
- Carry out repairs arising from condition surveys, risk assessments and fire risk assessments.
- Complete fire integrity audits, upgrades and remediation works.
- Perform decorating, plastering, tiling, brickwork and other wet trade repairs.
- Coordinate drainage and gulley maintenance activities.
- Order materials, manage stock levels and schedule repair works.
- Monitor contractors and specialist trades working on site.
- Liaise with building users to minimise disruption and communicate work progress.
- Support building condition surveys and refurbishment projects.
- Ensure all work is completed safely and in accordance with University policies and procedures.
About You
- Recognised qualification in a building trade discipline, ideally gained through an apprenticeship.
- Proven experience in building fabric maintenance and repair.
- Competence across carpentry, joinery and general building maintenance activities.
- Ability to interpret building drawings and specifications.
- Strong understanding of building regulations and statutory compliance requirements.
- Ability to identify defects and recommend practical repair solutions.
- Experience supervising contractors and monitoring work quality.
- Good IT skills and ability to use mobile technology for work management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proactive, solution-focused approach with strong organisational skills.
- Experience working on listed buildings, educational estates or similar complex environments would be advantageous.
Additional Information
Salary Grade 6 - Starting from £33,951 rising to £37,694 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Please see Special Conditions for this role below:
- A Full Valid UK Driving License is required.
- Ability to work across all Bath Spa University campuses.
- Occasional travel may be required for training and business purposes.
- Flexibility to work additional paid hours when operational requirements demand.
- Participation in training and continuing professional development as required.
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
- Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement
- Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role (Full Time) - more details here: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/StaffBenefits
- Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling
- Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme and Cycle to Work
- Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app
For further details about all our staff benefits, have a look at our rewards page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/work-at-bath-spa/rewards-and-benefits/
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.
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.
About Bath Spa University
At Bath Spa University, we believe in the power of education to break down barriers to opportunity and to transform lives. We are the Professionally Creative for the future. Professional Creativity transcends subject disciplines, and is just as important for our sciences, education, business and law subjects as it is for our sector leading creative industries provision. We connect learners, staff and external partners with applied research and innovation. We power inclusive growth through skills development and practice based, innovation – intensive learning for all.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
- Respect
- Inclusivity
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community. We foster inclusivity, celebrating and respecting differences. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and genders. We consider our recruitment practices to be comprehensive and unbiased; ensuring fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all.
Information about visa sponsorship
Information about visa sponsorship
Under the 2006 Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Act the University has a duty to prevent illegal working by carrying out document checks on all potential employees to confirm that a person has the right to work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
For some vacancies (those requiring specific specialist skills or in shortage occupations) we may be able to obtain a certificate of sponsorship for a suitably qualified applicant. Due to the limited availability of sponsorship resources, not all vacancies in this category will be eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility will be assessed on a role-by-role basis and is normally limited to positions that meet the University's workforce and immigration criteria.
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Company
Location
Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Employment Type
Contract, Contract
Salary
£33,951 - £37,694 a year