Field Service Engineer (Mechanical & Heating)

Demob: J2691

Job Title: Field Service Engineer (Mechanical & Heating)

Location: Woking, Surrey

Salary: £31,200 – £36,000DOE + Benefits

Introduction:
Our client provides maintenance services to energy assets and ancillary equipment and also provide specialist contracting expertise. They now require a Field Service Engineer to join their team in Woking. The ideal candidate will live within a reasonable commuting distance of Woking and will attend customer sites to carry out a variety of service, installation, maintenance and repair tasks. You must have a strong mechanical and heating background. Please note candidates must be flexible in their approach to travel and will be required to undertake an on-call rota.

This presents itself as an ideal opportunity to join an established company and, although not essential, could be well suited for a person who has previously served in the Armed Forces i.e. Royal Navy, Army or Royal Air Force (RAF) and has previously worked within a similar role i.e. Marine Engineer or Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).

Responsibilities:
– The successful candidate will attend customer’s sites and carry out planned preventative maintenance, remedial and breakdown works ensuring that the quality of technical work is of a high standard and in compliance with statutory requirements.
– Provide first line of defence emergency call out availability to intervene 24 hours, 7 days/week to resolve urgent operational matters across all contracts.
– Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance to assets identified under relevant contracts.
– Attending breakdowns to assets across relevant contracts.
– Diagnosing faults to assets identified under relevant contracts.
– Ensure effective use of time and resources to provide an effective service to customers.
– Ensuring projects run smoothly and structures are completed within budget and on time.
– Fitting new parts or repair old and making sure equipment is working correctly.
– Sourcing and obtaining specialist components, fixtures or fittings when required.
– Managing stocks of supplies and equipment.
– Maintain high standards of housekeeping at all times.
– Making sure the works comply with legal requirements and Health and Safety legislation.
– Creating and maintaining maintenance procedures, H&S documents, reports.
– Assessing sustainability and environmental impact of projects.
– Completing work request paperwork accurately, in detail and is submitted in good time as dictated by priority.
– Communicating in written and verbal format to other members of staff.
– Completing of cost, time, and resource (CTR) requests for estimating of works for submission to Line Manager.
– Completion of leave requests in good time to Line Manager to help with work planning and on call rota.

Applicant Requirements:
– It is essential that the successful candidate will have a strong Mechanical / Heating background and will hold a relevant Engineering Apprenticeship and Mechanical/Heating qualification (i.e. City & Guilds, NVQ standard).
– Ability to maintain and repair commercial pumps, motors and valves.
– Prepared to undertake necessary work on district heating systems (large and small).
– Gas powered CHP (Combined Heating Power) experience is desirable but not essential.
– Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
– An eye for detail and good design.
– Strong communication skills.
– Ability to work well both as part of a team and unsupervised.
– IT Literate: MS Office.
– Please note that this is a field based role so flexibility is required, you will also be required to undertake an on-call rota (1 week in every 5).
– Hold full driving licence.

Benefits:
– 25 days holiday plus 8 stats.
– Monday – Friday 7.30am – 4.00pm.
– Pool vehicle provided (business hours and on-call hours), tools, uniform and PPE.
– Allowances – on call / callout allowances.
– Training will be provided.