Lead Engineer

Job Introduction

• Full time
• Monday - Friday 
• 40 hours per week
• £40,000 - £45,000 (DoE) per annum
• Opportunities for professional development
• On site parking
• Food services on site
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Lead Engineer

Liverpool - Fulltime

Engineer a brighter future.

You'll keep things running, we’ll fast-track your career as a Lead Engineer with Sodexo, we believe operational excellence starts with you, as your versatile skills contribute to the maintenance and continuous development of our prestigious client facilities.

Join our team and play a key role in delivering excellence and innovation in Hard FM and Technical Facilities Services.

As a Lead Engineer you'll: 

• Engineering craftsmen co-ordination
• Planning and scheduling of works via CMMS. 
• Liaison with client representatives to deliver planned and reactive works.
• Delivering safe systems of works via permit to work system.  Ensure execution of maintenance activities are in accordance with site policies and procedures including health, safety & environmental (HS&E) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
• Checking and authorizing of works, snagging
• Ensure statutory and compliance activities such as Legionella, LEV, F-Gas, LOLER, Lifts and Forklift Trucks (this is not an exhaustive list) are carried out according to current legislation.
• Review risk assessments and method statements
• Obtain quotations for planned and remedial works arising out of service contract visits.
• Financial checking and authorizing, invoices and applications for payment
• Control of service contract execution and Service Provider reports
• Develop engineering and facilities scopes of work / SLA’s.
• Relationship Management – employees / supply chain / customers
• Ensure compliance with GMP/QA and other relevant policies.
• Review of insurance inspection reports for LOLER, Forklift Trucks & Lifts.
• Attend meetings between Sodexo and Client representatives for service contracts. i.e. Legionella, UPS Steering group, fixed wire testing, Effluent sampling, and F-Gas.
• Chair meetings between Sodexo and the Client representatives for service contracts. i.e. Legionella, fixed wire testing. 
• Manage the refrigerant databases for AHU’s, A/C units, fridges/ freezers (F-Gas registers)
• Manage the Emergency Lighting PM Database.

What we're looking for:

Essential:

• Mechanical / Electrical or I&C background

• Minimum GCSE level education

• Knowledge of LOLER / PUWER / ACOP L8 / F-Gas regulations / LEV systems

• Ability to work without supervision as well as part of a team

• Willingness and aptitude to be trained in any skills gap & positive approach to learning in role

• Good awareness and understanding of health, safety, and environmental issues

• Minimum IOSH Working Safely or equivalent safety accreditation

• Good administration skills

• Self-motivated and flexible approach to role

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients, and staff

• Good time management and organisational skills

• Ability to work well under pressure

Desirable:

• HNC / HND in mechanical or electrical engineering

• NEBOSH General certificate

• Engineering experience and knowledge of a manufacturing plant, preferably pharmaceutical / chemical / industrial

• Experience of using a works order planning database, e.g., Maximo

• Experience / knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Quality Assurance / ISO

• Excellent technical awareness and good overview of M&E building services

• Proven experience of issuing permits, writing risk assessments, and HS&E active monitoring

• C & G 2391 Test and Inspection of Electrical Installations, BS7671 17 Edition

• Supervisory experience and performance management – both staff and contractors

• Developing and writing M&E scopes of work and service level agreements (SLAs)

• Reviewing existing plant maintenance regimes and instigating improvements and initiatives

• Good written skills and capable of producing engineering technical reports

• Good customer service skills / client-facing skills

• Experience within managing / coordinating service contractors

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. 

Belong in a company and team that values you for you.

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support 
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater? 

You bring the skills. We’ll bring the opportunities. 

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications