Spirax Sarco
Senior Facilities Technician
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Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Facilities Maintenance Technician to join our Facilities Management team based in Cheltenham. Reporting directly to the Head of Facilities, who holds day-to-day responsibility for the FM Maintenance Team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our buildings, services, and grounds are maintained to a high standard.
You will be responsible for carrying out and supervising a wide range of building fabric, services, and grounds maintenance activities. Your work will help ensure a safe, efficient, and well-presented environment for staff, visitors, and customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, manage, and respond to facilities faults logged via the FM Helpdesk
- Support the delivery of a safe and healthy working environment across all premises
- Carry out repairs and maintenance to building fabric, services, fixtures, and grounds
- Maintain site roads, paths, and car parks, including litter clearance and seasonal gritting, salting, and snow clearance
- Undertake office moves, including packing and relocating furniture
- Carry out painting and decorating works as required
- Perform general landscaping duties, including mowing, weeding, pruning, and grounds maintenance
- Complete planned preventative maintenance tasks, including testing, data recording, cleaning, and fire alarm testing
- Proactively identify, report, and assist in resolving emerging maintenance issues
- Oversee and manage external FM contractors, ensuring service standards and compliance with company EHS policies and procedures
- Support facilities operations during emergencies or incident response
- Manage small facilities projects as directed by the FM Site Manager
- Carry out security duties, including site lock-up, as required
- Conduct daily inspections of buildings and grounds to identify, prioritise, and plan maintenance activities
- Apply technical expertise and experience to deliver cost-effective and business-focused maintenance solutions
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Essential Skills And Experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Clean, full UK driving licence
- Ability to work independently while also contributing effectively as part of a team
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
- High attention to detail with a strong commitment to quality, standards, and safety
About Us
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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