Foot Mobile Engineer

CBRE Local UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions seeks a Foot Mobile Multi Skilled Engineer to join our London engineering team, supporting a portfolio of commercial sites across the city. You will perform planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding and compliance checks on electrical and building services.

The role suits an experienced engineer with hands-on electrical maintenance experience in offices, facilities management, data centres or multi-site mobile maintenance.

Qualifications

• Strong fault-finding skills and the ability to work safely under pressure during reactive callouts.
• Ability to read technical drawings, follow operating procedures and maintain accurate records.
• Full UK driving licence or the ability to travel easily between London client sites.
• Strong communication skills and a customer-first approach.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, fault finding, minor works and compliance checks across electrical and building services.
• Monitor plant performance and environmental conditions, identifying risks before they impact operations.
• Complete site surveys and prepare work requests, method statements and risk assessments for planned tasks.
• Maintain accurate service records, incident reports and maintenance documentation.
• Escalate critical issues promptly and work with the Technical Services Manager to resolve root causes.
• Deliver a professional, customer-focused service and communicate clearly with clients, contractors and internal teams.
• Be available for standby, overtime and callout support when required.

Skills

Fault-finding skills

Read technical drawings

Customer-facing communication

Safe working under pressure

Driving licence

Job description

Company Profile

CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.

Foot Mobile Multi Skilled Engineer - London

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is looking for a Foot Mobile Multi Skilled Engineer to join our London engineering team, supporting a varied portfolio of commercial and critical environment sites across the city. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Multi Skilled Engineer, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Mobile Engineer, Building Services Engineer or Facilities Engineer who wants a role with variety, autonomy, career progression and exposure to high-profile client environments.

You will carry out planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, fault finding, minor works and compliance checks across electrical and building services systems. The role would suit someone with strong hands‑on electrical maintenance experience, ideally within commercial offices, facilities management, data centres, critical environments or multi‑site mobile maintenance.

• Opportunity to work across critical infrastructure, power distribution, UPS systems, HVAC and building services.
• Clear career development with a global facilities management business.
• Ideal for engineers who enjoy fault finding, client-facing work and taking ownership of their sites.
• Monitor plant performance and environmental conditions, identifying risks before they impact operations.
• Complete site surveys and prepare work requests, method statements and risk assessments for planned tasks.
• Maintain accurate service records, incident reports and maintenance documentation.
• Escalate critical issues promptly and work with the Technical Services Manager to resolve root causes.
• Deliver a professional, customer-focused service and communicate clearly with clients, contractors and internal teams.
• Be available for standby, overtime and callout support when required.

What We’re Looking For:

We are keen to speak with candidates who have worked as an Electrical Engineer, Mobile Maintenance Engineer, Building Services Engineer, Facilities Maintenance Engineer, Multi Skilled Engineer or Critical Services Engineer.

Essential

• Strong fault-finding skills and the ability to work safely under pressure during reactive callouts.
• Ability to read technical drawings, follow operating procedures and maintain accurate records.
• Full UK driving licence or the ability to travel easily between London client sites.
• Strong communication skills and a customer-first approach.

Desirable - helpful but not a barrier to applying

• Understanding of a CDM process
• Experience of H & S procedures & requirements. COSHH, Working at Heights, Risk Assessment etc.
• Health & Safety Qualified i.e. IOSH and/or NEBOSH
• Testing and Inspection of Electrical systems
• Knowledge of emergency response/standby/call out activities and protocols
• Understand the monitoring of utilities and environmental programmes
• Be or have been an Authorised Person e.g. (AP15/12)
• Water hygiene L8