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Mechanical Shift Engineer

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Job Introduction

Great opportunity for a Mechanical Shift Engineer to join our team on a prestige contract in London. You should be qualified and time-served mechanical engineer with a solid maintenance track record in building services environment.

You would follow a continental shift pattern (4 days on, 4 days off, 12h shifts). We offer a salary up to £35,000 + a monthly shift allowance.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Undertake maintenance and reactive activity, to a wide range of Mechanical Building Services equipment including but not limited to heating boilers, pumps, compressed air systems, sanitary ware, fan coil and air handling units and BMS systems and other equipment found in modern commercial premises.
  • Undertake within your levels of competency inspection and reactive activity to a wide range of Electrical Building Services equipment including but not limited to general lighting, building controls, small power and distribution, BMS systems and other equipment found in modern commercial premises
  • Be an essential part of the local team who will ensure the safe operation and repair of all M&E building services and fabric equipment on the site.
  • Take part in a rota to provide a reactive maintenance service outside operating hours of the site.
  • To work within a shift system to provide a core presence at client sites within an extended weekday period.  
  • To undertake weekend/out of hours working to complete intrusive maintenance activities that cannot be undertaken in client operating hours.
  • Working in line with the Permit to Work System.
  • To implement systems that will ensure plant is maintained and operated to its optimum efficiency.
  • Participate in departmental energy saving schemes and promote the understanding and importance of the economic use of energy.
  • Monitor site performance of sub-contractors and report poor performance.
  • Use of IT systems (Handheld device) as part of the CAFM system.
  • Work in line with issued Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work.

The Ideal Candidate

  • HND or NVQ or equivalent in a relevant subject
  • IOSH Passport or CSCS Card
  • Substantial experience in mechanical building services and plant engineering with a working knowledge of electrical systems.
  • (Preferred but not essential) Previous appointment as AP/CP for one or more of the following disciplines, Boilers and Pressure systems, Working at Heights, Confined Spaces
  • Experience of Construction Design Management Regulations (CDM).

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

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 are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

 

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