Depot Lead Engineer

Are you an experienced Depot Maintenance Engineer? Are you looking for the next step in your career? If so, we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting a Lead Depot Engineer to join our facilities management team, delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our site-based client in Dunstable!

Salary: £40,800 per annum

Additional earnings available through:

• Overtime
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)

Benefits include:

• Tools, uniform, PPE
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%

What You'll Be Doing:

As the Lead Engineer, you will oversee & support site engineers & contractors to ensure that planned and reactive maintenance tasks are completed to the required service level. You will also be required to provide first line response to all planned maintenance tasks and emergencies during normal working hours and out of hours when on call. Being responsible for the call out rota to ensure adequate and safe cover at all times is also an essential part of this role.

What We're Looking For:

To be successful you will have:

• Qualifications: A recognised apprenticeship or qualification (such as City and Guilds, BTEC, NVQ), or significant proven demonstrable experience in mechanical and electrical services
• 18th Edition electrical qualification

Knowledge & Experience:

• Technical knowledge and experience of maintenance and repair of a complex working environment including electrical and mechanical equipment whilst complying with all Safety and Environmental standards
• Knowledge of the building trade
• Asset protection
• Fire Alarm systems maintenance
• Knowledge of Racking – SEMA qualification preferred
• Line management experience
• Health & Safety experience
• Previous experience in a facilities management role, ideally in a distribution centre environment

Other benefits include:

• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q / Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

Other Information:

You’ll be working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. There is a requirement to work 1 in 2 weeks on call. There is a degree of flexibility required, as determined by business requirements which involves travelling to other Depots to provide on call support, cover for absence or where work requirements are dictated. Any time travelled to the campus / sister site will be within working hours.

At Arcus, we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage, we have our own in-house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross-skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self-delivery capability.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity, apply today by clicking on the ‘apply’ button.