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ROLE: Hire Service Engineer
LOCATION: UK wide
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 a Hire Service Engineer who will support our growing wastewater hire operations by preparing, servicing, maintaining, and repairing specialist pumping and treatment equipment used across wastewater and utility sites.
Role Responsibilities:
1. Design, plan, and carry out service work on wastewater treatment systems, components, and processes, including screening, pumping, biological treatment, filtration, and sludge handling.
2. Develop maintenance methodologies, test protocols, and acceptance criteria in line with regulatory and customer requirements to ensure fleet performance and reliability.
3. Prepare, service, maintain, and repair specialist hire equipment across operational wastewater sites.
4. Support customers with high‑quality technical service, site support, and safety‑focused operations.
5. Assist in ensuring the hire fleet remains compliant, efficient, and operational at all times.
Required Qualifications:
Applicants must meet the below defined requirements for the role:
6. Experience working with wastewater treatment systems or water engineering infrastructure.
7. Strong understanding of wastewater processes, system chemistry, and treatment performance.
8. Excellent analytical skills and report‑writing ability.
9. Strong problem‑solving capability and attention to detail.
10. Willingness to work on operational wastewater sites.
11. Experience with industrial wastewater systems and installations.
12. Knowledge of UK water industry standards and regulatory frameworks.
13. Experience supporting bids, tenders, and customer demonstrations.
14. Chartered or working towards professional registration (ICE, CIWEM).
15. Familiarity with instrumentation, sensors, and data acquisition systems.
What's in it for you?
16. Opportunity to work in a specialised, growing team within a critical UK infrastructure sector.
17. Exposure to advanced wastewater processes, treatment technologies, and industrial systems.
18. Professional development pathways, including support towards chartership.
19. Access to Mitie's exceptional wellbeing, lifestyle, and financial benefits, including: Virtual GP service for you and your household Salary Finance wellbeing support Choices lifestyle benefits platform Option to buy up to 5 extra days of holiday Dental care, critical illness cover, tech purchase schemes MiDeals discounts across major retailers and brands Cycle‑to‑work scheme Life cover up to 4× salary Enhanced pension contributions Save‑as‑you‑earn scheme & Mitie Matching Share Plan Mitie Stars recognition programme with monthly cash awards and a yearly £10, top prize A strong commitment to your long‑term career growth through structured training and learning pathways.
There's a place for you at Mitie — join us today!
We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer. This means every role at Mitie is paid at or above the independently calculated Real Living Wage, reflecting our commitment to fair pay and responsible employment.
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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 Zehdan Raja at .