Job Overview
The Senior engineer is the absolute life blood of our business, they will be the critical friend to the engineer and the first line management into the leadership teams, they will generally be the best engineers in the team and with experience will also have developed leadership abilities, they will be responsible for the basic day to day welfare of the engineers in their charge, but be fully supported by the RPS and the REM. They will also be the person who looks at continuous improvement of our engineering workforce, they will take a hand in development of their engineers, to ensure the team moves from strength to strength. They will also be the person who is big enough to have those difficult conversations with engineers when needed and be the one to foster that mutual respect needed for this role.
Main Duties
1. Keep on top of our audits and compliance and ensure these are done in the due month every time.
2. Manage and own the on-call rota.
3. Be an in-region escalation point!
4. Assist the RPS & REM as needed!
5. Coach engineers in awareness: e.g. what is and is not 2nd person job, use of Verisae, high quality dockets.
6. Van stock control
7. Stores control (if in region)
8. Work with RPS on docket quality.
9. Drive information on quoting tool, so works can be completed by anyone, and work can be defended
What we are looking for
10. Basic Line management skills
11. Working knowledge of current standards and codes of practice
12. Critical thinking skills
13. Highly self-motivated and dependable.
14. Be highly Adaptable and have a willingness to work in a flexible fashion.
15. Good written and verbal communication skills
16. Ability to asses' technical risk
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 Liam Murray at .