Plumber

Operational

Full-time, permanent

£36,730 gross p.a.

35 hours per week

Deadline: Tuesday 11 November 2025

St Antony’s College is recruiting for a Plumber, to be responsible for undertaking plumbing-based repairs and minor heating installations across the College estates. You will also work as part of the Maintenance team to provide a day-to-day general maintenance support service (both reactive and planned maintenance).

The Plumber is responsible for carrying out repairs and improvements to our hot-water, cold-water, and waste-water systems, as well as completing full installations of bathroom fixtures to a high standard. You will correctly identify, quantify, and purchase the materials required for jobs, regularly check and monitor boiler plant rooms, replace faulty radiators and EcoSync valves on domestic combi boilers systems, and recognise stagnant tanks – carrying out replumbing to improve flow. The post holder will also assist external contractors when required.

Working as part of the Maintenance team, the Plumber will carry out tiling, painting, minor carpentry, and ironmongery fitting. You will be responsible for taking and accurately recording monthly meter readings, monitoring repair requests, investigating faults, and completing repairs in a timely and professional manner – liaising closely with staff and students to ensure minimum disruption and proactively making recommendations to improve services.

The Plumber plays a key role in ensuring health and safety protocols are followed, ensuring that all works are conducted to the highest safety and quality standards. You will support the induction and supervision of plumbing and heating contractors, and take all safety precautions to prevent danger, avoid injury, and prevent damage. The post holder will work within maintenance Risk Assessment Method Statement procedure, be compliant with Construction Design Management, follow PPE and COSHH procedures at all times, and assist in fire drills.

To be successful in your application, you will have a recognised qualification in Plumbing and Domestic Heating, a trade qualification (or relevant experience), and experience of working as a Plumber or heating engineer, encompassing all aspects of the trade. Fitness and mobility are critical for this demanding role – you will need to be able to work at height and in confined spaces.

The successful candidate will be comfortable with technology, have a sound understanding of working within health and safety constraints, and be willing to attend training where needed. You will be self-motivated with good organisation skills and attention to detail, as well as having an understanding of good customer service and strong interpersonal skills. A flexible approach, and the ability to work well both independently and as part of a team will be essential in this role.

Ideally, you will have recent health and safety course certificates and knowledge of Building Management Systems. Experience of working in an educational facility and sympathy with the values, ethos and objectives of a small, collegiate institution would be advantageous.

Working at St Antony’s College

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week).

The Plumber will be paid £36,730 gross p.a. There is a probationary period of three months.

St Antony’s College is one of the seven graduate colleges of the University of Oxford. The College specialises in the interdisciplinary study of international relations, economics, politics and history of particular parts of the world and has around 550 postgraduate students.

We offer excellent employee benefits, including:

41 days’ annual leave including bank/public holidays. (It should be noted that holiday cannot normally be taken during term time and College staff work on bank holidays falling during term time)
Membership of the OSPS pension scheme
Free meals in College during normal working hours and when the Hall is open
Access to a car parking space in the College’s grounds if one is available.

How to apply

Please send a completed application form by email to recruitment@sant.ox.ac.uk by 9am on Tuesday 11 November 2025. Interviews will be held on Friday 14 November 2025.

Candidates will be shortlisted solely on the extent to which they meet the essential and desirable criteria of the person specification based on their application form. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and the right to work in the UK, as well as receipt of a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

St Antony’s College is an equal opportunities employer. Applicants will be asked to complete a confidential and anonymous online monitoring survey, which is not seen by the selection panel.

A privacy notice for applicants and information about how we use your data can be found at https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/how-we-use-your-data

Published date: October 22, 2025