Location: Portsmouth Shift Pattern: 12-hour shifts (4 on, 4 off), rotating between days (6am - 6pm) and nights (6pm - 6am).
Why Join Our Client?
Imagine working in an environment where your skills are continuously sharpened, your ideas are valued, and your career progression is actively funded. Our client is a leading name in data centre infrastructure, offering a unique blend of critical technical challenges and a remarkably supportive, family-like culture where more than half the team has stayed for over 5 years.
From day one, you will have access to on-the-job mentoring, external training, and an unlimited Udemy learning licence to help you master new technologies and elevate your career.
The Opportunity
As a Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, no two days will be the same. You will be the backbone of the Data Centre site, ensuring maximum uptime, safety, and efficiency. This is a highly varied and dynamic role where you will mix hands-on M&E technical maintenance with crucial IT infrastructure support and contractor management.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Excellence: Monitor, maintain, and optimise critical site systems, environment, and M&E infrastructure. Perform planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to guarantee facility reliability.
First-Fix & Small Projects: Provide rapid first-fix support on M&E systems and minor fabric repairs, whilst independently delivering small-scale project works.
Safety & Authority: Act as the Low Voltage (LV) Authorised Person on-site-planning, documenting, and safely executing electrical works with strict adherence to protocols.
Contractor & Project Supervision: Oversee and coordinate third-party vendors and engineers, providing technical guidance on larger, complex infrastructure tasks.
Smart Hands IT Support: Bridge the gap between M&E and IT by assisting remote tech teams with hardware installs, cable management, reboots, and connectivity checks.
Operations & Audit: Manage the ticketing system efficiently, capture precise asset data, and contribute to vital management reports and site audits.Who We Are Looking For
You are a proactive, solution-oriented engineer who thrives in a critical environment. You pride yourself on high standards of safety and love the challenge of keeping critical operations running flawlessly.
Essential Criteria:
A multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer with experience in critical, industrial, or commercial environments.
A completed electrical apprenticeship (or equivalent), ideally backed by 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
Comfortable with basic IT skills (including MS Word and Excel).
Eligible for, or currently holding, National Security Clearance (SC Clearance).
Flexibility to provide holiday and overtime cover to support your team when needed.Desirable Experience:
If you have experience in any of the following, we want to hear about it:
LV switching & UPS Circuitry
HVAC & BMS Systems
Generators & Fire Preventative SystemsNot a perfect match on paper? Apply anyway! Our client values transferable skills, passion, and potential far more than a flawless checklist. If you are driven to learn, you might be exactly who they are looking for.
What's In It For You?
Our client believes in rewarding hard work with a brilliant benefits package and a genuine focus on work-life balance and well-being.
Financial Security: 5% matched pension, life assurance, and an attractive salary.
Health & Well-being: Private healthcare coverage.
Green Perks: Cycle-to-work scheme and an Electric Vehicle (EV) scheme.
Perks & Culture: Free breakfast and snacks on-site, a monthly team pizza lunch, and a genuinely friendly, supportive team atmosphere.
Continuous Growth: Fully funded external training and an all-access Udemy licence.Ready to take the next step in your engineering career? Apply today
Salary description
£40000.00 - £50000.00 per year