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Role Purpose
To ensure all mechanical and electrical systems and contractual assets are maintained in optimal working order, fully compliant with contractual obligations, statutory legislation, and best practice standards.
Key Responsibilities
1. Ensure all contractual assets and mechanical and electrical systems are maintained and operate efficiently through effective Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) in line with prescribed schedules.
2. Respond promptly to all reported failures and faults, taking appropriate corrective action to restore systems to full operational service within contractual requirements.
3. Ensure all completed faults and failures are formally closed within agreed timescales and contractual standards.
4. Carry out all work activities in strict accordance with current Health and Safety legislation and company procedures.
5. Support the management team in reducing utilities consumption through daily monitoring of the Building Management System (BMS), applying engineering knowledge and best practice.
6. Attend regular meetings with site management to report on performance, including faults, failures, PPM completion, subcontractor performance, health and safety, lifecycle planning, and utilities usage.
7. Participate in the out-of-hours standby and callout rota on a rotational basis, including Bank Holidays.
8. Maintain full statutory compliance in accordance with PPM schedules and SFG20 requirements.
9. Conduct weekly testing of life safety systems, including fire alarms and life-sign monitoring systems.
10. Report all faults or failures relating to contractual assets and M&E systems to the management team and confirm rectification with the Premises Manager.
11. Coordinate and schedule subcontractors to attend site at least one month in advance of their PPM visits and act as the primary on-site contact.
12. Provide the Premises Manager with engineers' worksheets, supplier delivery notes, and escalate any abnormalities or additional works identified by subcontractors to the Account Manager.
13. Supply the Facilities Management (FM) team with accurate electronic information, including supplier details, part numbers, descriptions, quantities, and costs, to facilitate timely purchase order processing.
14. Provide monthly utilities meter readings to the Premises Manager.
15. Ensure on-site storage areas are kept clean, tidy, and well organised; ensure work areas are left clean following self-delivered works and that subcontractors do the same.
16. Assist in the preparation of additional works quotations to support Authority Variation Requests (AVRs) within contractual timeframes.
17. Support the Account Manager and Facilities Manager with additional duties as required to ensure effective contract delivery.
18. Undertake any other duties across the PFI Portfolio as requested by the company.
What We Are Looking For
Essential Criteria
19. Completion of a recognised time-served apprenticeship, ideally in Electrical Engineering.
20. Proven experience working within a maintenance environment.
21. City & Guilds 17th or 18th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification.
22. Knowledge and experience in servicing and testing highly specialised systems and equipment.
23. Experience working with BMS systems and generators.
24. Strong commitment, enthusiasm, and a proactive approach to work.
25. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and take initiative.
26. Strong problem-solving skills with a lateral thinking approach.
27. Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
28. Clear, confident, and effective communication skills.
29. Experience managing subcontracted services.
30. Sound knowledge of Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and Hard FM operations.
31. Knowledge of water management principles and compliance.
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,!
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 .