Facilities Engineer (Electrical Biased)

Manchester Central; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Manchester Central in Manchester is seeking a full-time Facilities Maintenance professional. Responsibilities include addressing maintenance requests, ensuring compliance, and managing contractors.

The ideal candidate will have relevant building service qualifications and experience working with CAFM platforms, ensuring the optimal functioning of the venue.

Qualifications

• Qualified to City and Guilds standard in a building service-related discipline.
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Able to prioritize work while ensuring venue functionality.

Responsibilities

• Respond to reactive maintenance requests and planned preventative maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with statutory and mandatory maintenance activities.
• Conduct daily checks on building management systems for optimal efficiency.
• Manage on-site third-party contractors for task completion.
• Provide cost and safety advice on proposed maintenance works.

Skills

Previous experience of working within restricted access and high-level work

Ability to meet planned maintenance deadlines

Experience with CAFM (Helpdesk) platform

Education

City and Guilds standard in a building service-related discipline or equivalent

Job description

Reporting directly to Engineering Service Delivery Manager, this role is working on a full time, permanent basis.

Your duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Responding to reactive maintenance requests and planned preventative maintenance activities for all venue assets, plant and equipment using the Help Desk system and agreed priorities
• Ensuring compliance is always met in regard to statutory and mandatory maintenance activities, ensuring action plans are in place to address remedial works
• Daily checks on the building management systems so that they work at optimum efficiency
• Managing on-site third-party contractors ensuring they complete tasks on time and safely to required standards
• Providing an element of cost, programme, safety and build ability advice on proposed maintenance and capital improvement works

The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous experience of working within restricted access and high-level work
• The ability to meet planned maintenance deadlines
• Worked with a CAFM (Helpdesk) platform

You must:

• Be qualified to City and Guilds standard in a building service-related discipline or equivalent
• Have a pragmatic and “common sense” approach to problem solving
• Be able to prioritise work and accommodate conflicting requests, whilst ensuring the day-to-day functionality of the venue