Site Engineer - Electrical Bias

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Job Information

To ensure all aspects of mechanical and electrical systems are maintained in optimal working order and in compliance with all contractual and legislative requirements.

Main Duties

• To ensure all the contractual assets, mechanical & electrical systems are properly maintained and operating efficiently through effective planned preventative maintenance matching prescribed schedules.
• To ensure all events (failures & faults) that have been raised for any contractual asset, mechanical or electrical system are reacted to timely, ensuring the appropriate actions taken to meet contractual requirements in returning the asset, mechanical or electrical system to full operational service.
• To ensure that all events (failures & faults) where the contractual asset, mechanical or electrical system have been returned to operational service are “closed” in a timely manner and meeting contractual requirements.
• To carry out all work activities in accordance with all relevant and current Health and Safety legislation.
• To advise and assist the management team in reducing the utilities usage at the site, through daily monitoring of the site BMS system, engineering knowledge and best practice.
• To meet with the site management regularly to provide performance information on all events (faults and failures), PPMs, sub-contractor performance, health & safety, lifecycle and utilities consumption reduction.
• To participate in the out of hours stand-by and callout rota on a rotation basis including Bank Holidays.
• To ensure that full Statutory Compliance is maintained in line with PPM schedules and SFG20.
• To conduct testing of life systems (i.e., fire alarm & life-sign monitoring alarm) each week.
• To inform the management team of all faults or failures to any of the contractual assets, mechanical & electrical systems and to confirm to the Premises Manager once these have been corrected.
• To ensure that all sub-contractors are contacted and scheduled to attend site 1 month in advance of their due PPM visit. Act as contact when onsite.
• To provide the Premises Manager with engineers' worksheets or supplier delivery notes and to bring to the attention of the Account Manager any abnormalities or additional works required as raised by the subcontractor.
• To provide the FM team with all necessary information (electronically), including supplier, sub-contractor, part numbers, description, quantities and costs to enable the FM team to place purchase orders as required in a timely and trouble-free manner.
• To provide the Premises Manager, on a monthly basis with all the utilities meter readings.
• To ensure any on site storage facility is kept clean, tidy and organised. To clean up after any self-work activity and ensure all sub-contractors clean up on completion of the activities
• To assist in providing additional works quotations to enable the Premises Manager to complete the relevant contractual AVR (Authority Variation Request), within the required time frames.
• To assist the Account Manager and the site Facilities Manager with any other duties in support of the contract as directed by the Account Manager.
• Any other duties across the PFI Portfolio requested by the company.
  
  

Essential

What we are looking for

• Must hold a "time served apprenticeship" ideally in Electrical Engineering
• Must have a demonstrable background in a Maintenance environment
• C&G 17th/ 18th Edition
• Knowledge on how to service/test of systems of highly specialised equipment
• Experience of BMS Systems and generators
• Committed and enthusiastic
• Self-motivated and pro-active approach to business and staff
• Lateral thinker adept at problem solving
• Good organisational skills
• Strong and effective communication skills
• Management of subcontracted services
• Knowledge of Health, Safety & Environment and Hard FM operations
• Knowledge of water management
  
  

Mitie is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

If you are working in regulated activity please note that you are subject to the following:

• It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. vulnerable adults, children or both).
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Mitie is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children or vulnerable adults.
  
  

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Inder Mann at [email protected].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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