Commercial Plumber

About The Company

Leicester City Football Club, also known as the Foxes, is a top-flight English football club, in their sixth consecutive season in the Premier League. In 2015/16, ranked as 5000-1 outsiders, Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions. 

In 2010, the Club was bought by Asian Football Investments, a Thai-led consortium fronted by King Power’s founder and Chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The stadium was named King Power Stadium in 2011 and one year later in 2012, King Power International became sole owners of the Club. 

Leicester City Football Club is an ambitious and forward-thinking club. It is deeply committed to the local community and its supporters and continually strives to ensure that every point of engagement with fans is truly world class including the experience on matchdays.

The Club is now continuing to make significant strategic investments across the whole organisation and major expansion plans are in hand. It is an extremely exciting time for the Club with plans for a new state-of-the-art 180-acre training ground soon to open.

About The Role 

Based at Leicester City’s new world class training ground facility, the role of commercial plumber covers all aspects of mechanical and building services maintenance, efficiently carrying out planned preventative measures across the estate.

You will be responsible for installs, maintenance, repairs, pipes and fixtures associated with heating, cooling, water distribution, and sanitation systems in all the commercial structures. Ensuring as a minimum we are compliant and preferably exceeding best practice as an exemplar venue. 

The successful candidate will be required to document a summary of actions in mandatory reports and keep service records up to date. You will Undertake all PPMs and reactive tasks as necessary to onsite HVAC plant and specialist equipment.

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will have significant experience of working on AHU's, Air conditioning, Boilers (Valves, Actuators, flow control Products) and in plant rooms. You will possess NVQ or equivalent in plumbing or mechanical engineering and are gas safe registered. This role requires the ability to perform inspections of plumbing systems to identify and replace worn parts.

You will be organised with the ability to multi-task and perform well under pressure, with the ability to meet stringent deadlines.

Benefits Package 

Leicester City Football Club offers a competitive salary and pension scheme with life assurance to all its permanent employees. Employees are able to benefit from free onsite parking as well as an onsite staff restaurant. Employees also benefit from up to 33 days’ annual leave including bank holidays.

Contract Type – Permanent
Hours Per Week – 37.5

Leicester City Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Leicester City Football Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, you may be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service and prior to taking up any role.

A shortlist of suitable applicants will be compiled shortly after the closing date and successful candidates will be contacted about the interview process.

If you feel you have the qualities and experience we are looking for please apply by sending your CV, along with a covering letter, by email to recruitment@lcfc.co.uk

A detailed job description can be found here.