Facilities and Maintenance Engineer

Job Description:

Facilities and Maintenance Engineer

Location: Mercia Park, Swadlincote
Salary: £36,360.00 per annum plus 30 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme

About the Role
You will take Facilities Maintenance to the next level for operations and overall efficiency. This presents an outstanding opportunity for a high-calibre, multi-skilled Facilities Maintenance Engineer or someone with a trade background to transfer knowledge and experience from other or similar previous roles.

As part of your key responsibilities, you’ll:

• Respond to, escalate, record, and complete planned and reactive maintenance tasks, ensuring all work is completed in accordance with Health and Safety policies and procedures across the Mercia campus (3 x warehouses).
• Carry out first fix repairs to building services and maintain all plant and machinery, including internal office fixtures and fittings.
• Perform basic fault finding on electrical, mechanical, and packaging equipment and machines, using logical steps to resolve issues when under pressure.
• Specify and order materials, purchased parts, and machinery, and assist the Senior Facilities Manager in identifying essential and critical spares stocks.
• Carry out basic civil, carpentry, and plumbing works, as well as small project installations that may involve both electrical and maintenance works.
• Carry out racking repairs and pallet recoveries of fallen pallets of stock at height, working in conjunction with operational needs.

About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

• You are a multi-skilled, time-served tradesperson with a hands-on / can-do attitude, and computer literate (Microsoft Office and Google applications).
• You have maintenance experience with demonstrated ability in problem solving and fault finding; knowledge of mechanical, compressed air systems, and electrical plant is an advantage.
• You are a great team player and good communicator, able to work closely with and support fellow colleagues and operational teams in a fast-paced, sometimes challenging environment.
• You demonstrate high accountability, use your own initiative for critical decision making and problem solving, and are committed to maintaining high standards of work and housekeeping.
• You are physically capable of performing the role, including working at height as part of normal day-to-day duties.
• FLT and MEWP driving licenses are preferred but not essential (training provided), along with basic mechanical and electrical experience; 18th Edition is advantageous but not essential.
• Working knowledge of the latest regulatory and statutory regulations, such as PUWER / LOLER, and experience in racking repairs/inspection is desirable but not essential.

About Unipart
We are a supply chain performance improvement partner.  We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer.  Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon.   Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work.  Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit.  We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart.  We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances.  We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation.  Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most.  Adjustments for you:  We want you to perform at your best.  If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know.  We are here to support you.

You may have experience in the following: Facilities Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Building Services Engineer, FM Engineer, Site Engineer, Multi‑Skilled Engineer

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