Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Multi-Skilled Engineer - Mechanical Bias
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Job Description – Multi-Skilled Mechanical Engineer
Location:
DVLA Estate
Reporting To:
Engineering Supervisor
Job Overview
To deliver a compliant and efficient mechanical, heating and ventilation maintenance service across a busy, operational government estate. The role includes planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, fault finding, remedial repairs and support to project and billable works, ensuring minimal disruption to critical operations and full compliance with statutory, contractual and site-specific requirements.
The Mechanical Engineer will support the continued operation, reliability and compliance of mechanical plant, equipment and associated building services across the estate.
Key Responsibilities
Maintenance Delivery
- Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) in line with SFG20, statutory requirements, manufacturer guidance and contractual obligations.
- Complete reactive maintenance tasks in response to mechanical faults, breakdowns, plant failures or service requests.
- Ensure mechanical systems are maintained in a safe, compliant and fully operational condition.
- Support statutory inspections, compliance activities and maintenance regimes across relevant mechanical systems.
- Complete all allocated works within agreed timescales, ensuring accurate records and appropriate escalation where required.
Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Recognised mechanical qualification, such as NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, apprenticeship or equivalent mechanical engineering qualification.
- HVAC, heating and ventilation knowledge or experience, particularly in:
- Air handling units
- Fan coil units
- Experience delivering PPM and reactive maintenance within a commercial, public sector, critical environment or large operational estate.
- Strong mechanical fault-finding and diagnostic capability.
- Experience working with mechanical plant, heating systems, ventilation systems, pumps, valves and associated building services.
- Understanding of safe systems of work, isolation procedures and permit-controlled environments.
Fault Finding & Repairs
- Diagnose mechanical faults across a range of building services and plant, including but not limited to:
- Heating systems
- Ventilation systems
- Pumps, valves and pressurisation units
- Domestic hot and cold-water systems
- Pipework and associated mechanical infrastructure
- Plantroom equipment and controls interfaces
- Undertake repairs efficiently to restore service and reduce operational downtime.
- Identify root causes of recurring mechanical issues and recommend practical long-term solutions.
- Escalate complex faults, compliance risks or specialist requirements to the Engineering Supervisor or relevant management team.
- Support safe isolation, reinstatement and testing of mechanical systems following maintenance or repair activities.
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Compliance & Safety
- Work in accordance with site Health & Safety procedures, permits and safe systems of work.
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, regulatory and site-specific requirements, including:
- Health and Safety at Work requirements
- Pressure systems requirements where applicable
- Water hygiene and Legionella control requirements where applicable
- Permit to Work and Authority to Work processes
- Site-specific control of work procedures
- Accurately complete all documentation and maintain clear audit trails.
- Ensure tools, equipment and work areas are maintained safely and professionally.
- Identify and report risks, defects, non-compliance, unsafe conditions or recurring issues.
Systems & Reporting
- Update CAFM systems with detailed job notes, completion evidence and status updates.
- Record all relevant data relating to:
- PPM completion
- Reactive works
- Remedial actions
- Billable or chargeable works
- Asset condition and defects
- Ensure work orders are updated accurately and closed within required timescales.
- Highlight risks, non-compliance, repeat failures and operational concerns to management.
- Support trend analysis and improvement actions through accurate reporting and clear communication.
Desirable
Experience Working With
- Pumps and pressurisation units
- Heating circuits and associated controls
- Mechanical interfaces with BMS or controls systems.
- LV supply and control panel maintenance
- Knowledge of SFG20 maintenance standards.
- Basic understanding of water hygiene, pressure systems and mechanical compliance frameworks.
Personal Attributes
- Proactive and solution-focused.
- Strong attention to detail and safety.
- Able to work under pressure in a busy operational environment.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Professional, reliable and customer-focused.
- Able to prioritise workload and escalate issues appropriately.
- Committed to high standards, compliance and continuous improvement.
- Flexible approach to supporting operational needs across the estate.
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Benefits
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
- When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Shivam Sharma at Shivam.Sharma@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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