About this role
Job Title: LEV Technician
Location: Belfast
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, 08:00 - 16:30, 40 hours per week
ABM is one of the world’s largest providers of integrated facility services. A driving force for a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable world, ABM provides essential services across a wide range of industries – from commercial office buildings to airports, hospitals, data centres, manufacturing plants and distribution centres, and more.
Purpose: To maintain effective local exhaust ventilation (LEV) and wet-collector systems across the Belfast contract, supporting control of airborne contaminants at source. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the technician will deliver planned and reactive maintenance, investigate performance defects, maintain records and support competent examination specialists.
Key Responsibilities
Service Provision
- Deliver planned, reactive and condition-based maintenance of LEV systems and wet collectors within the agreed asset and service scope.
- Inspect and maintain hoods, enclosures, ductwork, fans, drives, filters, seals, dampers, collection units and associated controls within competence.
- Maintain wet-collector water levels, circulation, sprays, separation components and sludge removal in accordance with equipment-specific procedures.
- Take and record approved airflow, pressure and condition readings; compare results with established commissioning or examination benchmarks.
- Investigate poor capture, blockages, leaks, abnormal vibration, filter loading and alarm faults, and escalate loss of effective extraction promptly.
- Coordinate with operations to stop affected processes where exposure control is ineffective; arrange safe isolation and restrict return to use pending agreed verification.
- Keep asset registers, logbooks, CAFM tasks, readings, photographs, repair details and follow-on actions accurate and traceable.
- Support competent specialists undertaking thorough examination and testing; arrange access and track report defects through verified close-out.
- Control exposure during cleaning and waste handling using approved methods, PPE and RPE; observe equipment-specific fire and explosion precautions.
- Escalate changes to process, materials, hoods, ducts or fan settings for technical assessment before modification or return to service.
- Support spares planning, calibrated test equipment, operator checks and contractor coordination.
- Support shutdowns, emergency response, toolbox talks and relevant technical training.
- Coordinate with compliance, QHSE and operations on exposure-control concerns and safe reinstatement.
Requirements
- Recognised mechanical, ventilation or maintenance qualification, normally Level 3, or equivalent demonstrable practical competence.
- Practical experience maintaining industrial extraction, dust or fume-control equipment, or closely related ventilation systems.
- Working knowledge of hoods, ducts, fans, filters, drives, collection units and the purpose of airflow and pressure indicators.
- Ability to interpret drawings, manuals, maintenance schedules and LEV examination reports.
- Experience diagnosing mechanical faults, blockages, leakage and deteriorating extraction performance.
- Understanding of safe isolation, permits, contaminant exposure, PPE and RPE requirements and safe cleaning methods.
- Ability to take reliable readings using suitable instruments and maintain clear maintenance records.
- Ability to recognise limits of competence and obtain specialist assistance when required.
- Clear communication, CAFM record keeping and effective coordination with operations and contractors.
- Ability to travel between contract sites and meet applicable security and access requirements.
Desired Experience / Qualifications
- Experience maintaining wet collectors, including water circulation, sludge handling and equipment-specific operating safeguards.
- Relevant LEV maintenance training and experience supporting commissioning or thorough examination and testing.
- Awareness of combustible-dust risks and hazardous-area precautions relevant to the installed equipment.
- Experience within aerospace, manufacturing or other complex industrial environments.
- Relevant access-equipment, RPE, safe-isolation and environmental waste-handling training.
Benefits
We’re proud to offer a great range of benefits including:
- 24/7 GP: Both you and your immediate family can speak to a UK-based GP from the comfort of your own home
- Mental Health support and Life Event Counseling
- Get Fit Programme
- Financial and legal support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access Perks at Work, our innovative employee app where you can find:
- Perks: discounts, gift cards, cashback, and exclusive offers
- Life: Search for resources and tools on topics ranging from family and life to health, money and work
- Support: Online chat or telephone service for urgent support in a crisis
For more information about ABM’s benefits, visit our careers page
ABOUT US
ABM is one of the world’s largest providers of integrated facility services. A driving force for a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable world, ABM provides essential services that improve the spaces and places that matter most. ABM offers a comprehensive array of facility services that includes cleaning, engineering, parking, electrical & lighting, energy solutions, HVAC & mechanical, security, and mission critical solutions. ABM delivers these custom facility solutions to properties across a wide range of industries – from commercial office buildings to schools, airports, hospitals, data centres, manufacturing plants and distribution centres, entertainment venues and more. In the UK we’re proud to service icon sites across the country with more than 10,000 team members. For more information, visit www.abm.co.uk .
ABM are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief. We are proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme.