Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Engineer

ENGINEERINGUK; Dartford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering company is seeking a Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join their facilities team. This role involves maintaining and improving essential building systems while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in HVAC systems and relevant engineering qualifications, contributing to a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension – basic and enhanced schemes

Health and Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar Mechanical & Electrical maintenance role.
• Solid understanding of HVAC systems and electrical infrastructure.
• Good working knowledge of health and safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support to the facilities team.
• Perform planned and reactive maintenance on various systems.
• Engage in daily monitoring and operation of the Building Management System (BMS).

Skills

Logical and well-organised

Strong communication skills

Detail-oriented

Deadline-driven

Team player

Education

Relevant engineering qualifications (e.g., City & Guilds, NVQ, HNC/HND)

Job description

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Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Engineer

View more categories View less categories Sector Engineering ,Operations and Facilities Management Role Professional Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Are you an M&E biased Maintenance Engineer?

Would you like to work for an industry leading construction and engineering company?

Laing O'Rourke are currently seeking a skilled and proactive Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join our dynamic facilities team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment where you will play a key role in maintaining and improving essential building systems, while ensuring compliance with all relevant health and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day support to the facilities team, ensuring efficient and high-quality service delivery.
• Take ownership of incoming facilities requests, responding effectively and seeing them through to resolution.
• Carry out and follow up on regular facilities inspections, addressing actions as required.
• Ensure all work is compliant with relevant health and safety regulations and industry standards.
• Perform planned and reactive maintenance on a range of systems including:
• Chillers
• Boilers
• Pressure Vessels
• Switchgear & Lighting Systems
• Building Management System (BMS)
• Engage in daily monitoring and operation of the BMS.
• Conduct general ad-hoc maintenance tasks as needed.

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Logical and well-organised, with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Numerate, literate, and detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy.
• Demonstrates initiative and takes responsibility for completing tasks from start to finish.
• Deadline-driven and focused on delivering results on time.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• A dependable team player who supports colleagues and contributes to a positive working environment.
• Able to communicate effectively at all levels and build strong working relationships.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in a similar Mechanical & Electrical maintenance role.
• Solid understanding of HVAC systems, electrical infrastructure, and building services.
• Relevant engineering qualifications (e.g., City & Guilds, NVQ, HNC/HND).
• Good working knowledge of health and safety legislation.
• Experience with Building Management Systems (BMS) is desirable.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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