Shift Maintenance Engineer

WATES; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK property maintenance company is seeking a Shift Maintenance Engineer in Leeds. The role involves planned and reactive maintenance on M&E plant and systems, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Candidates should possess strong communication and people management skills, with relevant safety qualifications. This position offers competitive salary and extensive corporate benefits, including health programs and family leave options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Travel coverage to any site

Private Medical options

Pension 5% employer contribution

Health and Wellness programme

22 days holidays + bank holidays

Industry leading family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the maintenance industry regulations and safety practices.
• Ability to complete help desk calls with sufficient detail and process time efficiency.
• Effective in monitoring and improving building systems for optimal performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide planned and reactive maintenance to M&E plant and systems.
• Proactively improve energy efficiency and overall building system operations.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety regulations.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

People management skills

Knowledge of Statutory Regulations

IOSH Working Safely qualifications

Job description

The Vacancy

SHIFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

Wates have an excellent opportunity for a skilled Engineer to join our team on-site at our client’s site in Leeds, providing both planned and reactive maintenance to all relevant equipment, controlling and operating of building operational systems, ensuring compliance to Health & Safety matters in relation to both direct and indirect scope of this role.

About the Role

We are looking for you to have excellent communication and people management skills with a sound judgement and a focus on achieving high standards and quality assurance.

To be successful in the role you will have a working knowledge of the Statutory Regulations and Codes of Practice applicable to the maintenance industry with IOSH Working Safely and up to date qualifications.

This role operates on a shift rota with no overnight attendance other than if called out; call out rota to be discussed.

Any offer will be subject to acquiring the relevant clean security checks.

Shift Engineer’s Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that all relevant help desk calls (both planned and reactive) are fully completed with sufficient information and are passed back to Manager, Supervisor or Co-Ordinator in accordance with the defined timescales.
• Proactively monitor and improve the operation of building systems to ensure optimum performance with a clear focus on energy efficiency and continuous improvement.
• First line response for all planned and reactive maintenance on all M&E plant including pumps, motors, drives, AHU’s, LV switch gear, PLC’s, HVAC.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a single site with multiple buildings and external plant areas.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• If required travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Options for Private Medical and other benefits, Pension 5% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 22 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
• Industry leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please refer to the page: https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.