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ROLE: LEV Engineer
HOURS: 40 hours per week
LOCATION: Cheshire England
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for an LEV Engineer who is responsible for the inspection, testing, maintenance, and performance assurance of Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) systems across a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, ensuring compliance, safety, and audit-ready operations.
Role Responsibilities: (4–5 Points)
1. Carry out Thorough Examination & Test (TExT) of LEV systems in accordance with COSHH regulations and HSG guidance, including airflow measurements, smoke tests, containment verification, system performance assessments, fault diagnosis, and remedial works to restore system performance.
2. Maintain and test a range of LEV systems including fume cupboards (ducted and recirculating), laminar flow cabinets, Class I/II biological safety cabinets, powder handling and containment systems, supporting both complex and non-complex systems.
3. Ensure full compliance with COSHH regulations, HSE guidance, UK statutory requirements, and pharmaceutical standards (GMP/GxP), maintaining detailed records, certification, and audit-ready documentation within CAFM/CMMS systems while escalating risks or non-compliance.
Required Qualifications:
4. BOHS P (LEV Thorough Examination & Test) – essential, with strong knowledge of LEV testing, maintenance, fault diagnosis, COSHH regulations, and HSE guidance (e.g. HSG).
5. Engineering qualification (Mechanical / HVAC or equivalent) with a proactive, safety-first approach, strong communication skills, and ability to support risk assessments, RAMS, and safe systems of work.
6. Desirable: experience in pharmaceutical or regulated environments (GMP/GxP), knowledge of containment and cleanroom systems, audit support, data analysis, additional BOHS modules (P–P), and IOSH/NEBOSH.
What's in it for you?
7. Opportunity to work in a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment supporting critical safety and compliance systems. Involvement in audit-ready operations, regulatory inspections, and continuous improvement initiatives. Development of specialist expertise in LEV systems, compliance, and engineering risk management.
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 Nikita Srivastava at .