Balfour Beatty plc
Mobile Facilities Management Engineer – AC / HVAC Engineer - Nationwide
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About The Role
In this role, you will support the Senior Hard Facilities Manager in the independent delivery, coordination, and assurance of HVAC and air conditioning hard services maintenance and minor project works across the Balfour Beatty UK estate.
The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and professional judgment, ensuring HVAC systems are safe, compliant, and fully operational. The postholder will contribute directly to statutory compliance, health & safety governance, service performance, and contractor oversight across multiple sites nationwide. Regular travel and periods working away from home will be required.
What you'll be doing
You Will Be Accountable For
- Delivering planned and reactive HVAC maintenance activities across a nationwide estate with minimal day-to-day supervision
- Undertake AC installations, from planning, ordering parts, liaising with site, carrying out the works, and completing all relevant certification
- Managing the issue, coordination, and completion of PPM and compliance activities, ensuring systems remain statutory compliant and operational
- Exercising professional judgment to prioritize work, diagnose faults, and resolve complex HVAC issues
- Acting as an Authorised Person for mechanical and/or electrical systems relevant to the role, where appointed
- Supervision of external sub-contractors
- Preparing, reviewing, and implementing RAMS and ensuring safe systems of work are consistently applied
- Coordinating, supervising, and inducting specialist subcontractors to ensure works are delivered safely, compliantly, and to required standards
- Delivering toolbox talks and supporting a strong health & safety culture across sites
- Liaising effectively with clients, internal stakeholders, and service partners, building strong working relationships
- Maintaining oversight of essential spares, materials, and equipment to support effective service delivery
- Completing documentation and reports in line with site-specific O&M manuals, SLA requirements, and agreed procedures
- Undertaking multi-skilled maintenance activities where required to support operational resilience
- Carry out Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) across the estate when required
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Who we're looking for
- Proven experience working within the Facilities Management environment, ideally across multiple sites
- City & Guilds F-Gas Qualification – Category 1 (essential)
- Strong all-round knowledge of HVAC, mechanical systems, and controls
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (desirable)
- Strong background in servicing, maintenance, and fault-finding of HVAC systems
- Sound working knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation (SSSTS / SMSTS desirable)
- Confident working independently, managing workload, and making operational decisions
- Experience coordinating supply chain and subcontractor activities
- IT-literate, with the ability to complete electronic maintenance and compliance records
- Full UK driving licence
- Portable Appliance Testing experience
- Basic plumbing/joinery/building fabric skills
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR, and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardizing our approach, systems, and processes.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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