M&E Shift Engineer
Options Resourcing Ltd
Location: Westminster, Central London
Site: Art Gallery
Employer: Leading Facilities Management Company
Salary: £48,000 – £50,000 + Excellent Benefits Package
Shift Pattern: 24/7 Continental Shift Pattern | Days & Nights
Hours: 42 hours per week | 6:30am–6:30pm / 6:30pm–6:30am
The Opportunity We are currently recruiting for a Shift Engineer (Electrical or Mechanical Bias) to join a leading Facilities Management provider on a prestigious contract at an Art Gallery in Central London.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Building Services Engineer with either a strong electrical or mechanical bias to join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for maintaining a high-profile London portfolio.
You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, safety and operational performance of essential building services, carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across a 24/7 shift environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) across electrical and mechanical building services.
- Respond to reactive maintenance requests, breakdowns, emergencies and call-outs, ensuring issues are resolved with minimum delay.
- Diagnose and repair faults across electrical systems and associated building services.
- Carry out maintenance and repairs to lighting, power and electrical distribution systems.
- Undertake electrical fault diagnosis associated with PPM and reactive maintenance.
- Repair electrical systems and controls associated with heating and ventilation building services.
- Operate, maintain and monitor building services plant to ensure optimum performance.
- Respond to and resolve public health system issues.
- Complete site logs, maintenance records and reports using relevant CAFM/reporting systems.
- Manage and comply with Permits to Work and safe systems of work.
- Assist with subcontractor management and coordinate specialist contractors where required.
- Support minor projects and provide event support.
- Assist other trades where required and provide cover for colleagues during holidays or sickness.
- Work independently and use own initiative while operating as part of a 24/7 shift engineering team.
- Ensure all work is completed in line with Health & Safety legislation, company procedures and client requirements.
- Meet and exceed agreed SLA and service delivery objectives.
- Relevant qualification in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- Post-qualification experience within building services maintenance.
- Strong experience within commercial facilities maintenance or a similar environment.
- Good fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
- Experience carrying out PPM and reactive maintenance.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider engineering team.
- Good understanding of Health & Safety, risk management and safe systems of work.
- Strong communication and customer service skills.
- Flexible approach to working across a 24/7 shift pattern.
- Electrical bias with experience of lighting, distribution systems and electrical controls.
- Mechanical experience across heating, ventilation, pumps and associated plant.
- Experience working with HVAC/building services systems.
- Experience with Permits to Work and subcontractor management.
- CAFM systems experience.
- Previous experience working within a high-profile commercial, public or critical environment.
- £48,000 – £50,000 basic salary.
- 42-hour working week.
- Continental days and nights shift pattern.
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service, plus Bank Holidays.
- Birthday day off.
- Option to purchase up to 5 additional days' holiday.
- Life Assurance.
- Pension scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance after 1 year's service.
- Company sick pay.
- Employee recognition and referral programmes.
- Flexible Benefits Scheme including retail discounts, eye care vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.
- Access to wellbeing programmes and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Full induction and ongoing training.
- Smartphone and Tablet/Laptop where applicable.
- Uniform and PPE where applicable.
- Access to an extensive career portal and online learning.
- Excellent long-term career development opportunities with a leading Facilities Management provider.
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