Building Fabric engineer

John Lewis Partnership; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent work-life balance

Pension scheme with employer match

Store & Waitrose discount

Job summary

John Lewis Partnership is recruiting a Fabric Engineer for Magna Park National Distribution Centre. The role runs a 42-hour week on a 14x12.5 hour DuPont shift pattern, including day and night shifts with 7 days off in a 28-day cycle.

You will perform planned, reactive and remedial work on building fabric, supporting campus engineering in a high-uptime automated environment. This position emphasizes safe, quality maintenance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strong vocational background in building fabric or engineering.
• Solid understanding of health and safety regulations in a commercial/industrial setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned, reactive and remedial maintenance for building fabric and equipment.
• Support shift and technical teams, ensuring first-fix and effective communications with shift managers.

Skills

Construction/Engineering experience

Health & Safety knowledge

Education

Apprenticeship-served (CITB/CGLI) or equivalent

Job description

About the role

This role will be based at our Magna Park National Distribution Centre. The salary range for this role is set at £32,400 - £40,900. Please note this role is for 42 hours per week. You will be working a DuPont shift schedule, a 4 week pattern of 14 x 12.5 hour shifts (a combination of day and night shifts - 05:45 - 18:15 / 17:45 - 06:15) in one rotation cycle (28 days) including 7 consecutive days off.

As an integrated part of the Campus Engineering Team, Fabric Engineers support both shift and technical teams by delivering in-house planned, reactive, remedial and improvement tasks.

Building fabric maintenance and value-added change-work delivery are essential to the continually-developing automated environment across the campus; completing such work internally with talented Partners contributes to campus engineering business objectives.

Day to day you will

• Internal delivery of planned maintenance, reactive and remedial regimes, including exposure to project activity, reducing / eliminating external contractor dependence in a 24-hour environment where SLA is often business-critical. Ability and desire to learn new skills relating to campus asset maintenance and repairs, including inspection regimes, record-keeping, plumbing, sanitary systems, painting, external site maintenance, yard disciplines etc.
• Achieving first-fix on building fabric, fixtures and equipment, supporting the Engineering Technician team, demonstrating the following skillsets: Action change-work in the branch within agreed hours. Understand and use the IT Systems to action and facilitate work. Maintain effective communication links with the Engineering Shift Managers. Resolve operational issues promptly, courteously and effectively.

Benefits of working as a Partner

• Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our market leading equal parenthood leave policy
• Full time working holiday entitlement of 15.5 days holiday (based on average 3.5 days working week) which increases with service, plus bank holidays
• Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay). After three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not
• You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose (some exclusions apply). You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount
• Subsidised meals while working and full access to our subsidised dining room serving hot and cold meals throughout the day
• Free on site hot drinks & fruit
• Free on site parking
• Cycle to work support scheme

To learn more about our fantastic benefits, please visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Essential skills you’ll need

• Strong vocational background with proven construction / engineering experience.
• A comprehensive understanding of Health & Safety legislation in a commercial and industrial environment is expected.

What else you could bring

• Apprenticeship-served (CITB, CGLI or equivalent).
• CSCS accreditation.
• IPAF & PASMA, Working at Height trained.
• First-Aid qualified.
• IOSH / NEBOSH.

The partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.