Maintenance Engineer

Salary: Up to £40,000

Location: Exeter

This opportunity is with Sowga - a specialist division of the Pareto Group

Overview

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities are listed below. The role involves maintaining and repairing the client's mechanical and electrical systems, coordinating with sub-contractors, ensuring safety and compliance, and providing effective liaison with the client and end users.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Maintaining and keeping in good repair the client's mechanical & electrical systems along with all associated component parts.
• Reviewing and checking sub-contractor performance on site during specialist service visits or repairs.
• Maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.
• Complete simPRO / instruction sets ensuring that each line entry on the instruction set is annotated that the step is completed with a photograph when the planned maintenance was completed.
• Logbook record keeping for the client's electrical, mechanical and water systems including health and safety information, up to date.
• Raise any issues with completing Statutory Planned Maintenance with Supervisor and Management when it cannot be completed.
• Maintain comfortable environmental conditions via the HVAC plant for the client.
• Reactive repairs to plant and equipment failures, fault finding on mechanical and electrical systems, responding to BMS alarms and using the system for first line diagnostics.
• Highlight any potential hazards discovered during maintenance to Supervisor and Management.
• Have full knowledge and operation of all plant and services for which you are responsible, including:
• Preparation of plant start up.
• Plant start-up (normal and emergency).
• Running checks. Plant changeover.
• Plant shutdown (normal and emergency).
• Fault finding. Optimum plant run times.
• Undertake regular housekeeping walk-rounds of the client's premises to ensure:
• Plant rooms are clean and tidy.
• No health and safety issues are present.
• Plant is operating as per building specification.
• Effective and courteous liaison with both the client and end users; strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Carry out maintenance, repair, and small installation tasks as directed by the contract, Supervisor and Management.
• Maintain records and documentation related to Health & Safety, building compliance and Quality Assurance (e.g., Test Reports, Service Reports).
• Maintain and develop good team relationships.
• Keep Business Support and Supervisor informed of all work progress.
• Communicate the impact of maintenance, repair and installation activities prior to their execution across the client's assets.
• Share skills and knowledge to ensure safe and continuous operations across all sites.
• Maintain good communication with other engineering teams to ensure a professional, courteous service to clients.
• Immediately report to Supervisor and Account Manager any real or potential hazard relating to personnel safety or the reliability of essential plant and services.
• Isolate and ensure safety of systems as required (dead/de-pressurised where applicable).
• Be on a call-out rota to provide full out-of-hours cover for the client.
• Overtime may be required in evenings, weekends and public holidays to meet business and client needs; no guaranteed regular overtime.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the Contract, Supervisor and Management.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Qualified to City & Guilds Level III or equivalent in Electrical discipline (essential).
• Qualified to City & Guilds Level III or equivalent in Mechanical discipline (essential).
• 18th Edition I.E.E (essential).
• City & Guilds BS 2391 Level 3 Electrical Inspection & Testing (desirable).
• IOSH Working Safely (desirable).
• PASMA and IPAF 1b/3a/3b (desirable).
• Good knowledge and understanding of Electricity at Work safe working practices and the Memorandum of Guidance on the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (essential).
• Unvented hot water systems training (desirable).
• Knowledge and experience in BMS / Generator / Controls / Lighting Systems / Plumbing / Sanitary Wear / Drainage Systems / Low Pressure Hot Water Systems / Pressurisation Systems / Ventilation Systems / ACOPS L8 and Cooling Tower Systems (desirable).
• Knowledge and experience with a valid Certificate on High Voltage systems (desirable).
• Experience of maintenance, testing & fault finding on equipment including boiler plant, ventilation systems, pumps, generators, switchgear, cables; batteries, small power and lighting where applicable.