Maintenance Engineer

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Hemel Hempstead, with occasional travel to Covent Garden, Milton Keynes & Loughborough
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday–Friday
Travel: Expenses paid for travel to sites outside Hemel Hempstead
Reports to: Engineering Team Leader

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join our Facilities Management engineering team.

Primarily based at our client site in Hemel Hempstead, you'll carry out planned and reactive maintenance across a range of building services, helping to keep the site safe, compliant and operating effectively.

This is a varied, hands-on position where you'll use your core engineering skills alongside broader knowledge of mechanical, plumbing, HVAC and electrical building systems.

You don't need to be an expert in every trade. We're looking for someone with a solid engineering background who is comfortable working across building services, knows the limits of their own competency and is confident bringing in specialist support when required.

While Hemel Hempstead will be your main base, you'll occasionally support our other sites in Covent Garden, Milton Keynes and Loughborough, with additional travel expenses covered.

What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across building services and plant

Responding to reactive maintenance requests from initial report through to completion

Fault finding and resolving mechanical and general building-services issues

Supporting maintenance across plumbing, HVAC, mechanical and associated electrical systems

Carrying out minor installations, repairs and remedial works within your competency

Completing statutory, regulatory, compliance and Health & Safety remedial works

Maintaining accurate maintenance and job records using Infraspeak

Keeping the client and Facilities Management team updated on works and outstanding actions

Ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard

Supporting and supervising subcontractors carrying out planned and reactive works

Reviewing contractor RAMS and ensuring appropriate safe working practices are followed

Checking and verifying completed contractor works

Providing technical M&E advice and support where appropriate

Planning maintenance around the client's operational requirements to minimise disruption and downtime

Identifying opportunities to improve building systems, processes and reliability

Supporting the wider Facilities Management team when required

Where a task falls outside your competency, you'll have the support to escalate it to the Engineering Team Leader or Facilities Manager so the appropriate specialist contractor can be arranged.

What we're looking for

You'll have previous experience working within Facilities Management, commercial building maintenance or building services, along with a recognised engineering qualification.

Essential

A recognised Level 3 engineering qualification, for example in plumbing, gas, mechanical engineering or another relevant building-services discipline

Good knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical systems within commercial buildings

Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance

Good fault-finding and problem-solving skills

Understanding of safe working practices within an engineering environment

Ability to work independently and take ownership of maintenance issues

Strong communication and client-facing skills

A flexible, practical and team-focused approach

Broader experience across HVAC, plumbing, plant, pumps, mechanical systems and general M&E maintenance would be particularly beneficial.

Your engineering team

You'll be a key member of a small, experienced engineering team at Hemel Hempstead.

The team is led by an experienced Multi-Skilled Engineering Team Leader with an Electrical bias, with engineers working together across electrical, mechanical and wider building-services maintenance.

The structure gives you the freedom to manage your own workload while having experienced technical and operational support available when you need it.

You'll also work closely with the wider Facilities Management team and specialist subcontractors.

On-call

The Hemel Hempstead site operates an out-of-hours callout rota which is currently shared between four members of the team.

The on-call period runs for one week at a time, covering emergencies outside normal business hours at the Hemel Hempstead site.

Joining the rota is a possibility as part of this role; however, this can be discussed if participating in on-call isn't something you're looking to do.

I'd definitely retain that wording in the advert because it's much more attractive than simply stating “1 week in 4 on-call”.

Training & career development

We actively encourage our engineers to continue developing their technical knowledge and careers.

Every member of the existing team has had opportunities to complete additional training, with development tailored to both individual interests and business requirements.

This has included areas such as:

Leadership development

IOSH Health & Safety training

Technical qualifications

Electrical Inspection & Testing

EV installation courses

Broader building-services and engineering development

Whether you're looking to expand your technical capabilities or develop towards a future leadership position, we'll support you in continuing to build your knowledge and experience.

Why join us?

This role gives you the variety of multi-skilled Facilities Management engineering while providing the stability of being primarily based at one site.

You'll have:

A salary of £38,000–£40,000

Monday–Friday working

A primary base in Hemel Hempstead

Expenses covered when supporting other locations

An established engineering team around you

Access to specialist contractor support

Ongoing technical training and development

Opportunities to broaden your engineering knowledge

Potential longer-term career progression

If you're a qualified Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer who enjoys solving problems, taking ownership of your work and providing a professional service to clients, we'd love to hear from you.

I think Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer is also a stronger external title than Facilities Multi-Skilled Engineer. It should capture people searching for Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Multi-Skilled Engineer / Building Services Engineer / FM Engineer, without incorrectly labelling the position as purely mechanical