Shift Maintenance Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading property maintenance company is seeking a skilled SHIFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER to provide planned and reactive maintenance. The role involves ensuring compliance with Health & Safety standards and operating various building systems. Ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills, IOSH certification, and a commitment to high quality. This position offers competitive salary and extensive corporate benefits while operating on multiple buildings at a single site.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Travel expenses covered

Private medical options

Pension with 5% employer contribution

Learning and development opportunities

Industry-leading family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of statutory regulations and codes of practice in maintenance.
• Experience in proactive monitoring and improving building systems.
• Ability to provide first-line response for maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all help desk calls are completed with adequate information.
• Monitor and improve building system operations for optimal performance.
• Provide maintenance response on M&E plant.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

People management skills

Sound judgment

Focus on high standards and quality assurance

Education

IOSH Working Safely certification

Up-to-date qualifications in maintenance

Tools

HVAC systems

M&E plant

PLC systems

LV switchgear

Job description

The Vacancy

SHIFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

Wates has an excellent opportunity for a skilled Engineer to join our team on-site at our client's location in Leeds. The role involves providing planned and reactive maintenance to all relevant equipment, controlling and operating building operational systems, and ensuring compliance with Health & Safety standards.

About the Role

We are seeking candidates with excellent communication and people management skills, sound judgment, and a focus on high standards and quality assurance.

The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of statutory regulations and codes of practice applicable to the maintenance industry, with IOSH Working Safely certification and up-to-date qualifications.

This role operates on a shift rota with no overnight attendance unless called out; details of the call-out rota will be discussed.

Any offer of employment will be subject to relevant security checks.

Key Accountabilities

1. Ensure all help desk calls (planned and reactive) are fully completed with adequate information and passed to the Manager, Supervisor, or Coordinator within defined timescales.
2. Proactively monitor and improve building system operations to ensure optimal performance, energy efficiency, and continuous improvement.
3. Provide first-line response for maintenance on all M&E plant including pumps, motors, drives, AHUs, LV switchgear, PLCs, HVAC systems.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a single site with multiple buildings and external plant areas.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Travel expenses covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including private medical options, pension with 5% employer contribution, health and wellness programs, 22 days holidays plus bank holidays, and more
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
• Industry-leading family leave benefits: 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 12 weeks fully paid paternity leave

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Due to the nature of this position, a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) will be required at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually. We do not discriminate based on criminal records or disclosed offenses. Additional pre-employment checks may apply. For more information, click here.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building, and property maintenance companies, founded over 125 years ago. Our purpose is 'reimagining places for people to thrive,' guided by our promises:

• Thriving places - creating sustainable, inclusive, and opportunity-filled environments.
• Thriving planet - protecting nature and combating climate change through collaboration and innovation.
• Thriving people - fostering inclusion, investment, and care for everyone involved with us.

We are proud to be recognized as a Gold Investors in People and a Disability Confident employer. Our recruitment processes are fair and non-discriminatory.