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Fabric Maintenance Engineer / Handyperson
Job Title: Fabric Maintenance Engineer
Location: West London
Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00 (40 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: Up to GBP42,000 + overtime + benefits
Role Purpose
The Fabric Maintenance Engineer is a key site-based role dedicated to maintaining the interior and exterior fabric of a flagship commercial office development to immaculate, showroom standards.
Working alongside the resident mechanical and electrical engineering team, you will take full ownership of all building fabric maintenance, planned remedial tasks, and proactive inspections. With a strong practical foundation in woodwork, carpentry, architectural ironmongery, and door maintenance, you will ensure all tenant spaces, executive suites, reception areas, and common parts are kept in flawless physical condition with zero disruption to corporate occupiers.
Key Responsibilities
Carpentry, Door Maintenance and Architectural Ironmongery
- Door Systems and Closers: Inspect, repair, ease, and adjust internal and external doors, including heavy timber doors, acoustic boardroom doors, and glass entrance systems.
- Fire Door Integrity: Carry out routine inspections and maintenance on fire-rated doorsets, checking gaps, seals, intumescent strips, hinges, vision panels, and emergency push-bars in line with statutory fire compliance guidelines.
- Architectural Hardware: Repair, fit, and replace mortice locks, digital/card lock assemblies, latches, floor springs, overhead door closers, handles, and push-plates.
- Bespoke Woodwork and Joinery: Perform minor joinery repairs across wall panelling, reception desks, skirting boards, executive cabinetry, office furniture, and timber fixtures.
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General Fabric Maintenance and Interior Finishing
- Painting and Decorating: Deliver high-quality patch plastering, filling, caulking, and paintwork touch-ups across high-visibility areas, lift lobbies, stairwells, and executive meeting suites.
- Flooring and Ceilings: Inspect and replace stained or damaged suspended ceiling tiles, inspect access hatches, and repair, re-lay, or replace carpet tiles and vinyl/raised-access flooring.
Basic Public Health and Multi-Skilled Support
- Minor Plumbing and Sanitaryware: Assist with first-line public health remedials, including unblocking toilets and basins, replacing toilet seats, resealing silicon around washroom basins/countertops, and repairing minor tap leaks.
- Showroom Standards: Conduct daily fabric audits across landlord common areas, plant rooms, and risers, proactively logging and rectifying defects before tenants or clients report them.
- Escort and Coordination: Supervise and coordinate specialist fabric contractors (e.g., specialist flooring contractors, major glazing teams, or external rope-access window cleaners) when required.
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Health, Safety and Administration
- Safe Working Practices: Strictly adhere to site Safe Systems of Work (SSoW), utilizing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and working within dynamic Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS).
- Working at Height: Carry out minor maintenance tasks at height safely utilizing step-ladders, mobile scaffold towers (PASMA), or access platforms (IPAF) where certified.
- CAFM Logging: Utilise the on-site CAFM system via a handheld tablet to log start/finish times, record detailed material usage, and close out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive tasks within SLA.
Person Specification
Experience and Background
- Proven Track Record: Demonstrable experience working as a Fabric Engineer, Building Maintenance Handyperson, or Facilities Maintenance Carpenter within a corporate office, 5-star hotel, or high-end commercial property.
- Carpentry / Woodwork Skillset: Confident, proven practical capability with fine timber repairs, hanging/easing co
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