Maintenance Technician/ Maintenance Engineer

Priority Care Group is looking for an experienced, practical and reliableMaintenance Technician / Maintenance Engineer to join our Estates Team. This is a permanent, full-time position working across our care homes and associated properties in Dundee, Angus and Perthshire. You will work alongside ourSenior Maintenance Technician as part of an established estates team, helping us maintain safe, well-presented and well-functioning environments for our residents and staff.

Please Note: Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK. The role This is a varied, hands-on position covering both reactive and planned maintenance across our properties. No two days will necessarily be the same. You could be repairing a door or plumbing fault in the morning, carrying out planned compliance checks in the afternoon, or working alongside contractors on a larger estates project.

Typical responsibilities will include General reactive building maintenance and repairs Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) Basic plumbing repairs Joinery and general building repairs Doors, locks, ironmongery and furniture repairs Minor decorating and making good Basic fault finding Identifying and reporting electrical, heating and mechanical faults Fire door inspections and associated remedial works Routine health & safety and compliance checks Emergency lighting and other scheduled estates checks Monitoring plant rooms and building servicesResponding to maintenance requests from Home Managers Completing maintenance records and signing off completed work Identifying when specialist contractors are required Liaising with approved contractors where appropriate Supporting larger planned maintenance and improvement projects Maintaining good standards of presentation throughout our properties Properties covered The Dundee/Tayside Estates Team currently provides maintenance support to: Harestane Care Home – Dundee St Columba’s Care Home – Dundee Magdalen House – Dundee Priority Care Head Office – Dundee Meigle Country House – Meigle St Vigeans Care Home – Arbroath Drumdarroch Care Home in Insch has its own dedicated full-time maintenance person and is not part of the normal day-to-day workload for this position.

What we’re looking for We are looking for someone who is genuinelymulti-skilled and hands-on. You don’t necessarily need to come from one particular trade, but you should have good practical experience in property or building maintenance and be comfortable dealing with a wide variety of everyday maintenance issues. Experience in any of the following would be particularly useful: Joinery Plumbing General building maintenance Facilities or estates maintenance Care home, healthcare, hotel or similar multi-site environments Planned preventative maintenance Building compliance and safety checks You should be able to assess a problem, work out the most sensible solution and complete repairs to a good standard.

Just as importantly, we’re looking for someone who is organised, dependable and comfortable working around residents and staff. Working as part of the Estates Team You will work closely with ourSenior Maintenance Technician, with both engineers having their own company van and working across the estate. The wider team also includes dedicated painting/decorating and grounds maintenance personnel.

We deliberately operate the maintenance engineers independently for much of the working week rather than having two people travelling together unnecessarily. This allows us to provide better coverage and visibility across our homes. For larger jobs, projects or tasks requiring two people, the engineers work together. On-call The role will also participate in the Estates Team’sshared out-of-hours on-call rota, providing emergency maintenance support outside normal working hours.

On-call is shared across the wider mainten