Shift maintenance engineer

ENGINEERINGUK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Employer: Wates Group

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Closing date: 12 May 2025

Sector: Construction and Building Services

Role: Professional

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

The Vacancy

MECHANICAL SHIFT ENGINEER

Wates have an excellent opportunity for a skilled Mechanical Shift Engineer to join our team on-site at our client's site in Brixworth, Northampton, providing both planned and reactive maintenance to all relevant equipment, controlling and operating of building operational systems, with a clear focus on Energy and the Environment, ensuring compliance to Health & Safety matters in relation to both direct and indirect scope of this role.

About the Role

We are looking for you to have excellent communication and people management skills with a sound judgement and a focus on achieving high standards and quality assurance.

To be successful in the role you will have a working knowledge of the Statutory Regulations and Codes of Practice applicable to the maintenance industry with IOSH Working Safely and a specific up to date qualification relating to the Mechanical/Plumbing trade.

This role operates on a shift rota with no overnight attendance other than if called out; call out rota will be 2 weeks out of eight.

Any offer will be subject to acquiring the relevant clean security checks.

Key Accountabilities

1. Ensure that all relevant help desk calls (both planned and reactive) are fully completed with sufficient information and are passed back to Manager, Supervisor or Co-Ordinator in accordance with the defined timescales.
2. Proactively monitor and improve the operation of building systems to ensure optimum performance with a clear focus on energy efficiency and continuous improvement.
3. First line response for all planned and reactive maintenance on all M&E plant including pumps, motors, drives, AHU's, LV switch gear, PLC's, HVAC.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a single site with multiple buildings and external plant areas.

What We Offer

1. Competitive salary
2. If required, travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
3. Extensive corporate benefits including Options for Private Medical and other benefits, Pension 5% employers' contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 22 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
4. Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
5. Industry leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses.

Company

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:

1. Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
2. Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
3. Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.