Senior Engineer- BC&E

Job Introduction

Sodexo have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our BC&E Engineering team at our defence site in Colchester, Essex. 

Reporting to our Building and Water Technical Officer, this role will be responsible for all preventative and re-active maintenance across the site. This role will also act as a mentor and support for other engineers in the team.

The ideal candidate will have an experienced background in buildings maintenance, fantastic people skills and either hold good awareness of HASAWA 1974 and the legal obligations. 

Our wealth of experience partnering Government Agencies means we are able to transfer best practices from the corporate sector to create better working environments in the public sector. We bring services that increase employee engagement, wellbeing and productivity to the public sector to help support government to deliver on its promised outcomes while reducing costs. Our goal is to improve service outcomes and reduce overall costs to the taxpayer.

Role Responsibility

• Monitor, evaluate and inspect planned and reactive maintenance tasks for quality and risk purposes. 
• Ensure tasks are assigned to the correct tradesmen within the team and ensure timely and compliant completion
• Assist with procuring materials via SAP as appropriate in accordance with assigned DOA
• Ensure all self-delivered and sub contracted PPMs, job plans are delivered to the appropriate standard. 
• Work in partnership with the Helpdesk Administration team to ensure seamless service delivery
• Monitor all tasks and provide timely updates and appropriate job files for tasks which are likely to exceed the reactive maintenance cap to Technical officer orClient as necessary
• Monitor all tradesmen on-site to ensure compliance with all H&S requirements
• Ensure all tradesmen are working safely, effectively and in a timely fashion whilst carrying out their duties
• Provide support to the Projects team in the form of writing Lifecycle Business Cases and supporting project works as prescribed by the Technical Officer or Project Managers.
• Provide supporting evidence in support of any Barrack Damage claims. 
• Experience of operating within a diverse defence engineering and FM environment
• Experience in supporting a diverse technical multi-skilled workforce
• Must work well within a team and support the Technical Officer and engineers whilst able to make decisions based upon own knowledge and initiative
• Must provide operational and project support to all other teams within the contract
• Manage control of contractor policy and procedures. 
• Undertake and deliver planned and reactive tasks as required to support operations. 
• Investigate and respond to audit findings internal and external
• Pre inspection of works where required 
• Arrange quotations from third parties as required.
• Manage on site security process for delivery’s and approved contractors 

Please see attached job description for further information regarding the role requirements

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of operating within a diverse defence engineering and FM environment
• Hold or work towards a very good awareness of the HASAWA 1974 and their own legal obligations.
• Hold or work towards a very good awareness of British Standards.
• Work to become Fire door inspetion Qualified 
• Work towards City & Guilds qualifications in building and fabric 
• Willing to learn, Able to identify unsafe situations and apply British Standards
• Able to communicate and work as part of a team and use own initiatives, knowledge, experience and professional judgment to act quickly in any emergency and to safely respond and make safe decisions regarding unsafe situations.
• Working knowledge/experience of building Installations 
• Excellent communications both written and verbal.
• Numerate and computer literate (Excel, Word and Outlook).
• Hold very good awareness of equipment and associated maintenance skills.
• A good team player with a flexible approach in achieving the targets/work plans.

Package Description

Up to £42,000 plus benefits 

Sodexo offers the best range of employee benefits on the market. From discounts that reduce the cost of the weekly shop, to exclusive deals on holidays and keeping active. Our award-winning employee benefits platform offers everything YOU need to make life that little bit better every day.

• Health and wellbeing incentives
• Training and development opportunities
• Reward and Recognition schemes
• Flexible working considered
• Volunteering days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

All offers are subject to full security clearance checks

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 age, disability, gender, transgender, marital or family status, race or ethnicity, religious belief of sexual orientation are welcome to and included within our business. 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