This opportunity is with Sowga – a specialist division of the Pareto Group
Location: London Salary: Up to £45,000
Purpose of role:
As a maintenance operative, you will be responsible for undertaking both planned and reactive maintenance. The purpose of the role is to carry out day-to-day maintenance supporting the Contract, Supervisor, or Management, ensuring the client's assets are maintained in a safe, efficient, and functional order. You will be extremely well-organised and possess the ability to work to agreed timescales, respond to emergency situations, and work well as part of a team as well as on your initiative.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
1. Maintaining and keeping in good repair the client's mechanical & electrical systems along with all associated component parts.
2. Reviewing and checking on sub-contractor performance when on-site undertaking specialist service visits or repair works.
3. Maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.
4. Completing simPRO / instruction sets ensuring that each line entry on the instruction set is annotated that the step is completed with a photograph when the planned maintenance was completed.
5. Logbook record keeping upon the client's electrical, mechanical water systems including health and safety are completed and up to date.
6. Bringing to the attention of the Supervisor and Management any issues with completing Statutory Planned Maintenance where Statutory Planned Maintenance cannot be completed.
7. Maintaining comfortable environmental conditions always via the HVAC plant for the client.
8. Reactive repairs to plant and equipment failure as and when required, fault finding on the client's mechanical and electrical systems, and responding to BMS alarms & utilising the system for first-line diagnostics.
9. Bringing to the attention of the Supervisor and Management any potential hazards discovered whilst completing maintenance.
You will have full knowledge and operation of all plant and services for which you are responsible, including the following operating procedures:
1. Preparation of plant start-up.
2. Plant start-up (normal and emergency).
3. Running checks, plant changeover.
4. Plant shutdown (normal and emergency).
5. Fault finding, optimum plant run times.
To undertake regular “housekeeping” walk-round of the client’s premises to ensure:
1. Plant rooms are in a clean and tidy condition.
2. No health and safety issues are present.
3. Plant is working as per building specification.
Effective and courteous liaison with both the client and the end users is essential; a good level of communication skills, both written and verbal, is essential.
To carry out maintenance, repair, and small installation tasks as directed by the contract, Supervisor, and Management. Maintain records and documentation pertaining to Health & Safety, building compliance, and Quality Assurance:
1. Test Reports.
2. Service Reports.
To maintain and develop good team relationships. Keeping the Business Support and Supervisor informed of all work progress. Communicate the impact of maintenance, repair, and installation activities prior to their execution across the client's assets. To impart skills or knowledge to all for the purpose of safe and continuous operations across all sites. Good communication between themselves and other engineering teams to encourage a professional, courteous, and helpful manner to our clients.
You will immediately bring to the attention of the Supervisor and Account Manager any real or potential hazard relating to the safety of personnel or threat to the reliability of essential plant and services. You are responsible for isolating, making safe, and confirming dead / de-pressurising pressure systems. Be on a call-out rota to provide the client with full out-of-hours cover. You may be required to work overtime during evenings, weekends, and public holidays to meet the business and clients’ needs. There is no guarantee of regular overtime. You will be required to undertake any other duties as may be required by the Contract, Supervisor, and Management.
Knowledge/Skills
Experience:
1. Qualified to City & Guilds Level II/III or equivalent in Mechanical discipline (essential).
2. Completed unvented hot water systems training (essential).
3. IOSH Working Safely (desirable).
4. PASMA and IPAF 1b/3a/3b (essential).
5. Knowledge and experience in plumbing, sanitary wear, drainage systems, low pressure hot water systems, pressurisation systems, and ventilation systems / ACOPS L8 and cooling tower systems (essential).
6. Experience of maintenance, testing & fault finding on a variety of equipment including: boiler plant, ventilation, pumps, generators, switchgear, cables, batteries, small power, and lighting (where applicable).
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