Salary: Career Graded 8-9, £34,611 – £47,712 Location: Agile, Forth Banks, Newcastle and homeworking Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent The role Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Estates Department as a Mechanical Engineer. As a Mechanical Engineer, you will deliver a comprehensive building services mechanical function, ensuring the effective maintenance, compliance, and performance of mechanical systems across the estate. You will also lead on the planning, design, and delivery of mechanical capital projects, managing contractors, budgets, and timelines to support strategic estate development and operational efficiency. What you’ll do Provide professional and proactive advice on mechanical engineering services, including conducting condition surveys and preparing maintenance plans to support medium-term financial forecasting. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, guidance, and best practices related to building services engineering and project management. Act as the authorised/responsible person or duty holder for mechanical services installations across the estate. Lead mechanical projects, ensuring service user and stakeholder requirements are thoroughly captured, challenged, confirmed, and documented. Contribute to feasibility studies by preparing initial design information and recommending specialist input where appropriate. Maintain and develop the estate’s mechanical asset register, ensuring it remains a comprehensive and accurate record of all mechanical assets. What you’ll bring Hold a degree in building services engineering or a related subject and be a member (or working towards membership) of a relevant mechanical professional body. Alternatively, demonstrate significant experience in building services engineering, with evidence of continuous professional development. Evidence of excellent planning and organisational skills to achieve set objectives. Ability to analyse problems and make effective decisions and resolutions. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a specialist team, providing relevant advice and guidance as needed, while also managing contractors and suppliers to ensure delivery of outcomes aligned with organisational requirements. Ability to understand and align organisational requirements from a wide range of stakeholders and effectively communicate those requirements and desired outcomes to contractors and service providers. Contract management experience. Experience in building mechanical compliance, engineering projects, and financial planning. We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone. Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Jonathan Lightley, Facilities Lead by email at Jonathan.lightley@northumbria.police.uk Just so you know Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants. Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Mechanical Engineer with TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute. The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form, followed by a face to face interview and a candidate presentation during week commencing 22nd September. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert. We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview. If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly. Use of AI in Applications: At Northumbria Police, we embrace innovative technologies to enhance our recruitment process. We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While AI can be a valuable resource, we encourage applicants to ensure their submissions accurately reflect their personal qualifications, experiences, and skills. Our selection process includes thorough evaluations to verify the authenticity and suitability of all applications. We value genuine and thoughtful responses that showcase your unique strengths and perspectives. If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references. Terms of appointment This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period. If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.