About The Company:
The company provides mechanical, electrical, fabric and management services to buildings across the public, residential, commercial and private sectors. Based in Kings Langley and work across London and the South East.
The work splits two ways. Planned maintenance is the scheduled side: servicing plant on a cycle so that it does not fail. Reactive is everything else, and it is where the helpdesk lives. Something breaks in a building somebody is standing in, and it needs an engineer today.
Some clients they look after directly, others come through managing agents acting for the building owner. Either way the buildings are occupied and in use, so a call at nine is expected to have an answer by ten.
What you would be doing:
Answering the helpdesk phone and the shared mailbox, and being the first voice a client hears
Raising jobs and keeping them up to date in Simpro, our job management system
Booking emergency and reactive call-outs, and scheduling planned maintenance visits
Allocating engineers to the day's work and moving things around when a job over-runs
Chasing job cards and reports back from engineers, and sending them out to clients
Turning what an engineer found on site into a clear quotation for the client
Raising purchase orders, ordering parts and materials, and chasing suppliers for delivery dates
Booking site access and permits with managing agents and building managers
Keeping site records, certificates and compliance paperwork straight
What a typical day looks like:
All day - The phone and the inbox. Both run from the moment you sit down, and answering them well is most of the job
From 8:00 - Reading the reports that came back from yesterday's visits and chasing the ones that did not. Catching up on the overnight inbox and working out what changed while the office was shut.
Morning - Reactive calls come in. A boiler is down, a unit is leaking, a shop has no heating. You work out how urgent each one is, book an engineer to it, and tell the client when somebody will be there.
Midday - More reports land as engineers finish on site. You chase parts, raise purchase orders, and turn what an engineer found into a quotation that goes out to the client the same day.
Afternoon - Certificates and reports go out and managing agents get their updates. Tomorrow gets built: every engineer is given their jobs and their first appointment before they finish, so nobody starts the day waiting to be told.
5:00pm - You go home. Out of hours is covered by a 24 hour monitoring bureau, so the phone is not yours in the evening
Candidate Requirements:
Experience in building services, facilities management or a trade office is useful, and we will take somebody without it who is organised, unflappable on the phone and quick to learn.
Comfortable talking to clients, engineers and managing agents, sometimes when they are frustrated
Organised enough to hold a lot of open jobs at once and let none of them go quiet
Clear, confident written English. A great deal of this job is email
Accurate with detail. Job numbers, purchase order numbers and site addresses have to be right
Confident with Microsoft Outlook and Excel. We will teach you Simpro
Within a sensible commute of Kings Langley, since the role is fully office based
Key Skills:
Communication - On the phone and in writing, all day
Organisation - Many open jobs, none of them forgotten
Attention to detail - Job numbers, PO numbers, addresses
Prioritising - Knowing what is urgent and what can wait
Customer service - Usually when something has gone wrong
Problem solving - Finding the engineer, the part, the access
Staying calm - Busy mornings and awkward calls
Confidence - Speaking up to clients, engineers and suppliers
Reliability - In on time, and nothing slips through
Teamwork - Engineers, the office and suppliers
Industry awareness - Some feel for construction and building services
IT confidence - Outlook, Excel, and Simpro once we teach you
Benefits:
25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
Company pension scheme.
Provided lunch on the last Friday of each month.
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm. No evenings, no weekends, no on-call rota.
The role is solely office based, in return the company is offering a Competitive Salary,
Depending on Experience.
If you feel that you have the relative skill/attributes to fulfil this role then please apply now!
The employer fully supports Equality in Employment. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit and business need
Salary description
£25000.00 - £35000.00 per year