Maintenance Engineer
This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Attend, diagnose and resolve faults on traffic signal assets and any other equipment covered within the scope of the Traffic Signal Maintenance (TSM) contract.
- Completion and delivery of both reactive and proactive maintenance tasks, ensuring high quality standards are achieved at all times.
- Periodic inspections of traffic signal assets, ancillary equipment and/or highways systems equipment including electrical testing.
- Installation, replacement and set up of traffic signal assets, ancillary equipment and/or other highway systems, unsupervised or as part of a team.
- Completion of remedial works following incidents such as road traffic collisions, equipment failure and/or damage.
- Build and maintain a positive relationship with customers and work collaboratively with contractors that may be on site.
- Proper use of relevant hand tools, power tools, working at height and manual handling aides in accordance with the company’s risk assessments, method statements and relevant training.
- Produce and submit high quality, detailed and accurate clearance notes via the relevant Fault Management System (FMS) and other digital platforms as required.
- Support contract management team and customers with site surveys and visits to assist in the efficient and safe delivery of works.
- Complete works in accordance with contract specific requirements, such as adhering to response and repair times or carrying out periodic/planned works in line with the relevant schedule and specification.
- Book time in accordance with the “Variable Pay Policy – Field Services” and Live Time Booking process.
- Meet the minimum requirements of the relevant Highway Electrical Registrations Scheme (HERS) occupation, and work towards or complete the associated NVQ level.
- Successful completion of mandatory Highway Sector Scheme training requirements as well as product and equipment training. Training will be a mixture of formal, peer‑to‑peer, on‑the‑job and self‑learning.
- Work out of hours to support service and installation needs, ensuring contract expectations are fulfilled, including taking part in an on‑call rota.
- Support a positive Health & Safety culture in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. For example, through the review and completion of relevant task‑specific risk assessments, event reporting, vehicle and equipment checks, and correct use of lone working device.
- Accurate collection and processing of data to enable fault‑free analysis of equipment performance.
- Ensure works are completed in accordance with the site specification, in a timely manner and to a sufficient quality level.
- Support the training, development, and upskilling of other team members.
- Adopt new business policies and processes in a positive way.
- Any other duties reasonably requested within the skills required for the role to enable a seamless service delivery.
Qualifications & Experience
- 4 GCSEs including Mathematics and English (Grades A‑C or 4‑9) or HNC/ONC/City and Guilds or equivalent experience in electrical engineering or similar.
- Traffic signals and/or highways industry experience (not essential).
- Reliability/Dependability – consistently performs at a high level; manages time and workload effectively to meet responsibilities.
- Initiative & Flexibility – makes thoughtful, well‑reasoned decisions; exercises good judgment, resourcefulness and creativity in problem‑solving.
- Effectiveness – drive and energy applied to work, accuracy and reliability, ability to get things right the first time.
- Cooperation & Teamwork – communicates well and takes on board instructions effectively; displays a willingness to work co‑operatively with colleagues in a variety of settings.
- Safe Approach – promotes a positive Health & Safety culture across the team; is willing to challenge yourself, your team and others when it comes to safety.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with an annual bonus.
- Continuous training and learning opportunities to support career development.
- 26 days of holiday, increasing up to 29 with length of service.
- 37.5‑hour working week plus paid overtime and unsociable hours uplift.
- Excellent pension with matching contributions up to 10% of pensionable salary.
- Flexible benefits package to suit your personal needs.
- Investment in personal development and support for membership of professional institutions.
