Heron Foods
Join Our Team: Mobile Maintenance Technician – Doncaster & Surrounding Areas
£29,913 + fully expensed van, mobile phone, and tablet + 30 days holiday + pension + staff discount across Heron Foods & B&M
If you're looking for a role where no two days are the same, where you'll solve problems, travel across a varied retail estate, and make a real difference to our stores every day – this could be the perfect next step in your maintenance career.
As a Mobile Maintenance Technician, you'll play a vital role in keeping our stores safe, operational, and looking their best. Working independently across your designated region, you'll carry out planned maintenance, respond to urgent repairs, and support store projects, ensuring our teams can focus on delivering great customer service.
This position offers:
- Salary of £29,913
- Fully expensed company van
- Mobile phone and tablet provided
- 30 days holiday (with the option to purchase more)
- Pension scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff discount across Heron Foods and B&M
- A varied, hands-on role with autonomy and opportunities to develop
- 37.5 hours per week, typically 6am–2pm (flexibility required)
About the Role
You'll be responsible for delivering planned and reactive maintenance across a portfolio of stores throughout Hull, Scarborough, Skegness, Newark and surrounding locations, helping to ensure our stores remain safe, compliant, and operational.
Working closely with our Facilities team, Store Managers, and external contractors, you'll provide practical maintenance support across a wide range of building and equipment requirements.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across our retail estate
- Completing repairs including basic plumbing, joinery, plastering, tiling, painting, flooring repairs, appliance repairs, and first-line electrical tasks
- Conducting routine inspections and safety checks, including PAT testing and fire alarm checks where required
- Maintaining store fixtures, fittings, shelving, bollards, and general building fabric
- Recording completed work accurately and maintaining maintenance documentation
- Supporting store refits, openings, and improvement projects
- Working with external contractors and ensuring all work meets health and safety requirements
- Responding promptly to urgent maintenance issues to minimise disruption to store operations
What You'll Need
- At least two years' experience in maintenance, facilities management, or a relevant trade
- Practical skills across areas such as plumbing, joinery, decorating, flooring, or general property maintenance
- Basic electrical knowledge (PAT testing or electrical qualifications desirable)
- Good understanding of health and safety practices
- Strong problem-solving and organisational skills
- Ability to work independently and manage your own workload
- Excellent communication skills
- IT literacy and confidence using tablets or mobile devices to log jobs
- Full UK driving licence
- Flexibility to travel across the region and undertake occasional overnight stays when required
Desirable
- Experience within a multi-site retail or commercial environment
- Knowledge of fire alarm and security systems
- Relevant maintenance or trade qualifications
About Heron Foods
Heron Foods is part of the B&M Group and operates more than 340 stores across the UK. We're a fast-growing, value-driven retailer offering a supportive working environment, genuine career development opportunities, and the chance to be part of a successful and expanding business.
If this sounds like the role for you, we'd love to hear from you.
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