The Role
As a Building Services Technician, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of FM maintenance services, primarily in relation to building fabric services, but also supporting other planned, responsive, and demand requirements.
Day-to-day, you will deliver specialist building fabric and systems support and identify, maintain, and ensure all key assets are available. You’ll recommend improvements and additional requirements to facilities management and business leads where required.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Providing maintenance support, including installations; planned, preventive, reactive, and corrective maintenance in relation to site services, plant equipment and buildings
2. Maintaining knowledge and awareness of building and energy standards
3. Prioritisation of the work programme to satisfy business needs
4. Ensure robust application of health, safety and environmental procedures and processes
5. Ensure maintenance standards and quality of work delivered are to the required level
6. Oversee the conduct of contractors on site; monitoring the implementation and performance of tasks allocated
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week and based at our MoD BUTEC site in Kyle of Lochalsh. You will also be required to travel to our site in Applecross to support as and when required.
Essential experience of the Building Services Technician:
7. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
8. Ability to thrive as part of a team and work independently where appropriate
9. Ability to safely deploy equipment/processes
10. Manual Handling awareness and risk appreciation
Qualifications of the Building Services Technician:
11. Full & clean (UK) valid driving licence
Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
Our Benefits
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
15. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
16. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days of additional leave.
17. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
18. Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and the local community.
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.