Resident Maintenance Engineer

Join Pareto Facilities Management Ltd as a Resident Maintenance Engineer.

Purpose of role: As a maintenance operative responsible for both planned and reactive maintenance supporting the contract, supervisor or management, ensuring client assets are maintained in a safe, efficient and functional order.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Maintain and repair the client’s mechanical and electrical systems and associated components.
• Review sub‑contractor performance on specialist visits and repair works.
• Maintain a safe and healthy workplace.
• Complete simPRO/instruction sets, ensuring each line entry is annotated and step completed with a photograph when planned maintenance was completed.
• Logbook record keeping for electrical, mechanical, water systems, including health and safety.
• Notify the TSM and management of issues affecting statutory planned maintenance.
• Maintain comfortable environmental conditions via HVAC plant.
• Perform reactive repairs to plant/equipment failure; fault‑find on mechanical and electrical systems, respond to BMS alarms.
• Highlight hazards discovered during maintenance.
• Operate all plant equipment responsible for, including preparation of plant start‑up, shutdown, fault‑finding, and routine housekeeping.
• Maintain records and documents for health & safety, test reports, service reports, and quality assurance.
• Keep supervisor, business support team informed of all work progress.
• Communicate impact of maintenance activities prior to execution.
• Provide training/knowledge to ensure safe continuous operations.
• Immediately report real or potential hazards to TSM/Contract Manager.
• Isolate and secure pressure systems; perform dead / de‑pressurising.
• Work overtime, evenings, weekends, public holidays as required; no guaranteed overtime.
• Undertake any other duties assigned by contract, supervisor or management.

Operating Procedures:

• Preparation of plant start‑up.
• Plant start‑up (normal and emergency).
• Running checks, plant changeover.
• Plant shutdown (normal and emergency).
• Fault finding, optimum plant run times.
• Regular housekeeping walk‑rounds.

Premises To Ensure:

• Plant rooms clean and tidy.
• No health and safety issues.
• Plant operates per building specification.
• Effective and courteous liaison with clients and end users.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal).
• Carry out maintenance, repair and small installation tasks as directed.
• Maintain records and documentation for health & safety.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

• Qualified City & Guilds Level III or equivalent in Electrical (essential).
• Qualified City & Guilds Level III or equivalent in Mechanical (essential).
• Completed 18th Edition I.E.E (essential).
• Completed City & Guilds BS 2391 Level 3 Electrical Inspection & Testing (desirable).
• IOSH Working Safely (desirable).
• PASMA and IPAF 1b/3a/3b (desirable).
• Good knowledge of Electricity at Work safe practices and Memorandum of Guidance (essential).
• Unvented hot water systems training (desirable).
• Knowledge/experience in BMS, generator, controls, lighting systems, plumbing, sanitary wear, drainage, low pressure hot water, pressurisation, ventilation, ACOPS L8 and cooling tower systems (desirable).
• High voltage systems certification (desirable).
• Experience with boilers, ventilation, pumps, generators, switchgear, cables, batteries, small power and lighting.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Customer focused attitude, flexible working style.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Assist colleagues when necessary to meet deadlines.
• Team player within office and contract.
• Prioritise and deliver under high pressure, business‑critical environments.

Confidentiality:

• Access confidential information as part of duties; treat all information as strictly confidential.
• Disclose information only to authorised persons per company policies and procedures.

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Management and Manufacturing

Industry: Facilities Services