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This is a static role based at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.\nRydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare and housing association sectors.\nJob Purpose\nWe now have an exciting opportunity for experienced Multi Skilled Maintenance Operative to join our NHS Maintenance team, which delivers a first-class repairs service in partnership with NHS Trusts. You will join our repairs team based at the Queen Mary's Hospital to provide reactive, planned and preventative maintenance for our NHS Clients.\nAs part of this role, you will work in a 'multi-trade' role providing repairs on a reactive basis with a particular emphasis on general maintenance works to include plumbing works such as changing taps and washers, replacing door handles and locks, and some general wear and tear maintenance (filling of holes/retouching, light plastering).\nIn addition to reactive repairs, there will also be some planned maintenance activities such emergency light testing and water temperature checks, along with planned upgrade works and refurbishment as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure a safe environment for service users. You will work in a live secure healthcare environment and as such its important that proper protocols are followed at all times to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for staff and service users.\nThis is a full time permanent position. Normal working hours are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday. There is also the opportunity to participate in an on-call rota system (which offers the opportunity to increase your earnings and be involved in additional urgent repairs).\nWhat we can offer you;\nCompetitive starting salary\nHoliday Entitlement: 33 days per annum (inclusive of bank holidays)\nHoliday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to an additional 5 days holiday\nOn call standby allowance and overtime paid per call out.\nPension Scheme: 4% contributory.\nHealth Cash Plan: helping you spread the cost of essential healthcare\n24/7 EAP Service: free advice, counselling and support for you and your family whenever you need it.\nWellbeing and mental health champions readily available at work.\nAccess to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.\nFlexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.\nEmployee Referral Scheme: recommend a personal connection to us and claim a cash reward for their successful hire.Full training, ongoing coaching and support\nOpportunities to progress your career across the business\nExperience Required\nPrevious relevant experience in the maintenance of buildings is essential, ideally within the NHS (or for a maintenance contractor providing services to the NHS). Alternatively, you will have worked for a maintenance contractor providing a planned/reactive maintenance service in a commercial setting (perhaps a hotel, school, supermarkets etc).\nYou will also have a knowledge of Health & Safety and safe systems of working.\nYou will also need to hold a full UK Driving Licence.\nYou will have the ability to undertake a wide range of general building skills. This could include: plumbing, painting, carpentry, plastering etc. Above all you will have excellent customer service skills and be passionate about providing high quality repairs. This is a genuinely diverse role with excellent scope for personal development. If you have the above skills and 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":4610,"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":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T18:52:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.358,"p_room":0.368,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rydon-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rydon-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T23:41:50Z","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":27367,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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-multi-skilled-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-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frydon-multi-skilled-maintenance-operative"}]}