Fabric Engineer

Location Cambridge
Discipline: Engineering Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £35000.0
Contact name: Sion Evans

Contact email: sion@hvacrecruitment.com
Job ref: 15299
Published: about 2 months ago

Mobile Fabric Engineer

Covering Cambridgshire

Salary - up to £37k basic

We are currently looking to recruit a Fabric Technician to cover an area in Cambridgeshire into East Anglia - as the Fabric Technician you will be responsible for all fabric tasks as well as supporting other engineers with any other maintenance that may arise on a day-to-day basis.

The successful fabric engineer will be joining the UK's biggest FM company who can offer a competitive salary as well as great company benefits, progression, and training.

Your mission

- Ensuring maintenance of a safe working environment

- Changing lamps and ensuring other fixtures and fittings are in good working order

- Minor plumbing and carpentry

- Clearing or cleaning general areas

- Tiling/blockwork

- Painting and decorating

- Changing filters on air conditioning systems and air handling units

- Emergency lighting monthly function tests

- Water hygiene temperature checks

- Monthly checks of plant equipment to confirm correct operation

- Weekly fire alarm and sprinkler testing

- Minor building works making good surfaces, painting

- Assisting M&E engineers with planned maintenance- Identifing spare parts to carry out repairs and order through appropriate channels

- Ensuring all tasks are completed within the contractual time scales.

- Carrying out the preparation of Risk Assessments and producing Method Statements for works within the site.

- Liaison and supervision of subcontractors in relation to method statement risk assessment and safe execution of works.

- Monitor and order stock for related items.

- Assist in the provision of the associated services within the project facilities. Including but not limited to general plumbing work, statutory inspection and testing of other mechanical and electrical services, managing of minor works projects.

- Pricing up minor work jobs.

- Obtaining quotations for materials

- Ensure compliance of health and safety responsibilities within the project facilities.

- Provide general support duties.

- Ensure the on going operation of heating plant, fire alarm systems and lighting systems.

- Carry out and supply meter readings for utility consumption.

- Be part of the on-call roster

- Other reasonable requests when required.

Who are we looking for?

- Experience as a technician working in a busy FM service environment

- Have a good understanding of M&E systems and facilities management

- Be a Skilled person, ideally with carpentry or plumbing qualifications

- Hold good people skills and the ability to deal directly with clients / customers

- Experience of maintenance on a variety of equipment including, plumbing, drainage, decorating, minor building works

- Ability to read, understand and diagnose faults utilising as-installed drawings, as installed schedules, contract specifications and equipment.

- Full driving licence.

- Reliable.

- Basic electrical experience would be advantageous.

- Good communication and organisational skills.

- Ability to use initiative in day to day duties.

If you are interested in the Fabric Technician role, please apply or alternatively please call the office on 01218 091999 and ask for Sion