Fabric Technician

Fabric Technician (Mobile)

Location: Derby, DE24 8JY

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday

Salary: £34,000

Our client, a leading provider of integrated facilities management and infrastructure solutions is hiring for a Mobile Fabric Technician to support their East Midlands Railway (EMR) contract, delivering reactive and planned fabric maintenance across a diverse portfolio of railway stations and associated operational buildings.

Job Description

We provide hard facilities management services across the EMR network, maintaining a range of environments including mainline and regional train stations, ticket offices, staff accommodation, control rooms, platform buildings, depots, retail units, and back-of-house facilities. Our focus is to deliver safe, compliant, and well-maintained environments for passengers, staff, and stakeholders across the region.

This is a mobile role covering stations across the East Midlands network, providing planned, preventative, and reactive fabric maintenance to ensure all facilities remain operational and in good condition.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive fabric repairs across station buildings and associated facilities.
• General building fabric maintenance including doors, locks/hinges, flooring, and internal fixtures.
• Floor repairs including fitting and replacing tiles and other surface materials.
• Minor plumbing repairs such as fixing leaks, replacing taps, and basic pipework maintenance.
• Carry out basic painting, patch repairs, and general upkeep of internal and external areas.
• Accurately complete job sheets, compliance documentation, and CAFM system updates.

Essential Qualifications/Skills

• Proven experience in a fabric or multi-skilled maintenance role.
• Background in facilities management or mobile maintenance environments.
• Experience carrying out reactive and planned maintenance (PPM).
• Comfortable working across multiple sites and travelling long distances (up to 100 miles/day).
• Comfortable working in public-facing environments such as transport hubs.
• Good understanding of completing maintenance paperwork and job reporting systems.
• Full UK Driver’s License (maximum 6 points, no drink driving offences)