Lead Technical Operative - Mechanical Bias

Location

Greater Manchester - City of Manchester

Salary

£43,000

Brief

Lead Technical Operative needed for a well-known, large Facilities Management organisation based in Manchester who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Lead Technical Operative that takes pride in their work with an in-depth knowledge of planned and reactive maintenance on a wide variety of Mechanical building services.

The successful candidate will have a City & Guilds Mechanical Engineering Services NVQ Level 2 or higher, alongside approximately 5-10 years' experience working as a Mechanical Engineer within an FM environment and have a keen interest in Technical Operations. Experience leading engineering teams, fault-finding complex mechanical issues and working with pressure systems would be a plus!

Benefits

• Salary: £43,000 per annum
• 24 days' holiday
• Life Cover equivalent to 1.5 times annual salary
• Employee discount shopping schemes for major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

What the role entails:

• Lead the site engineering team and be the engineering champion on site to understand how all the site systems operate in harmony in line with the building design.
• Ensure building services optimisation to achieve and maintain environmental conditions.
• Ensure that routine Planned Preventative Measures (PPM) is carried out to the Building services systems infrastructure and plant in accordance with Site task schedules and CAFM.
• Ensure that reactive tasks throughout the sites are completed and be proactive in highlighting areas where improvements can be made.
• Ensure that plant faults and defects are always swiftly remedied to maintain plant in serviceable order.
• Troubleshoot building related issues impacting on the operational performance of the internal conditions I.E. comfort cooling / heating, ventilation etc.
• Ensure that suitable spares are readily available to carry out both maintenance and reactive works.
• To provide parts lists and estimated timescales to carry out remedial works.
• Ensure that Method Statements and Risk Assessments are always prepared and used for all tasks undertaken to ensure safe working practices.
• Assist the HMCTS Technical manager with building services plant and equipment issues, investigations and other such requests such as validation of the "as installed" assets on site.
• Ensure the provision of a Safe and Healthy working environment. To include the wearing of uniform and PPE at all times.
• Ensure up to date plant logs are kept at all times.
• Supervising and monitoring of sub-contractors works whilst they are on site undertaking maintenance.
• Ensure awareness and compliance to the contractual KPI's/SLA's.
• To carry out any other task as reasonably directed by the account management team.
• Participate in the 24/7 maintenance cover (including on call rota)
• The position will require you to provide engineering support in emergency situations to ensure business and operational continuity.