{"id":4074645,"url":"https://alion.io/job/rydon-maintenance-operative","title":"Maintenance Operative","company":{"id":4406228,"name":"Rydon","domain":"rydon.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/rydon","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bristol, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Dropbox","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T14:58:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T14:58:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Overview\nWe now have an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Operative to join our highly regarded NHS repairs and maintenance team based in Bristol. This is a mobile role where you willl be maintaining a number of healthcare sites/hospitals.\nOur maintenance business provides a range of expert planned and responsive maintenance services to domestic properties and commercial buildings in the social housing, health and social care sectors. We look after a growing number of healthcare buildings for NHS Trusts, residential homes and educational facilities. Using the latest technology we ensure properties are well maintained, efficient and fit for purpose.\nPlease do take a look at one of our operational and careers video to find out more about working for Rydon\nJob Purpose\nOur NHS maintenance healthcare team provides a planned, preventative and reactive maintenance service for a large NHS trust in Bristol. To enable us to continue to deliver an excellent quality service, we are looking for a multi skilled maintenance engineer to join the team.\nThis is a varied role where you will undertake planned and reactive repairs across building fabric, carpentry and plumbing. You will be working in a mobile role maintaining a number of healthcare sites so a full UK driving licence is required.\nKey Responsibilities Include;\nComplete reactive building-fabric maintenance.\nCarry out weekly/monthly PPM's such as emergency lighting, water temperature temps, weekly fire alarm testing\nWithin competence undertake carpentry, plumbing, electrical, door, lock, ironmongery, patch-plastering, tiling, painting.\nInspect defects and identify root causes, risks or further work.\nComplete repairs safely and escalate specialist or authorised work.\nAssist with planned maintenance activities such as planned upgrade works and refurbishment as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure a safe environment for service users.\nUse the handheld PDA provided to receive jobs, complete risk assessments, and close jobs in real time.\nBe part of the out of hours call out rota for emergency and make safe repairs(which offers the opportunity to increase your earnings and be involved in additional urgent repairs)\nWhat we can offer you;\nCompetitive starting salary\nA company van, fuel card and uniform.\nFull time hours and a permanent position. Normal working hours are 8am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on call rota for emergency repairs where you will receive a standby allowance and overtime paid at time and a half or double time depending on day/time of call out.\n25 days holiday with the ability to increase up to 30 days.\nAccess to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.\nCompany pension, life assurance and income protection.\nFlexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and more.\nHealth and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our\nHealth and Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more!Opportunities to progress your career across the business.\nFull training, ongoing coaching and support. \nExperience Required\nBuilding fabric / facilities maintenance experience.\nCompetence to carry out a range of building fabric repairs. This could include: plumbing, electrical, plastering etc. \nNVQ Level 2 in a relevant building maintenance trade, or recognised equivalent would be desirable.\nPrevious maintenance experience gained within the NHS (or for a maintenance contractor providing services to the NHS) would be beneficial. Alternatively, you may have worked for a maintenance contractor providing a planned/reactive maintenance service in a commercial setting (perhaps a hotel, school, supermarkets etc).\nAbove all you will have excellent customer service skills and be passionate about providing high quality repairs.\nPlease note a full UK driving license is required and the position is subject to a DBS check.\nThis is a genuinely diverse role with excellent scope for personal development. If you have this experience, we'd strongly encourage you to apply.\nAdditional Information\nAs a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.\nRydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.\nTo apply online, please use the 'apply for this job link' at the top of this page.\nOur application process is very straight forward allowing you to apply with a CV (from your Computer or Dropbox), LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ and should take no more than a few short minutes.\nFor more details on our culture and what it’s like to work at Rydon, please click here.\nFurther information on how to apply can be found by clicking here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5090,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Facilities Management","Construction"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T14:58:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:5","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T20:17:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rydon-maintenance-operative","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rydon-maintenance-operative.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T20:17:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":39623,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4406228},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4406228"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frydon-maintenance-operative"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frydon-maintenance-operative"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frydon-maintenance-operative"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/rydon-maintenance-operative\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frydon-maintenance-operative"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4074645}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"rydon.co.uk","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4074645},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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