Shift Maintenance Engineer

Company: Randstad
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Location: London
Job Description:

Are you a mechanically biased building services engineer looking for your next challenge in a high-performing critical environment? We are working with a leading FM service provider to recruit a Multi-Skilled Shift Maintenance Engineer to join a flagship commercial office site in the heart of Central London. This is a high-rise, mission-critical building requiring engineers with attention to detail, high standards of safety, and excellent technical knowledge.Key Responsibilities:

  • Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance tasks across mechanical and building services systems.
  • Servicing and maintaining HVAC equipment, chilled water systems, CRAC units, AHUs, FCUs, pumps, motors, valves, and fan coil systems.
  • Basic electrical fault-finding and reactive support (lighting, power, emergency lighting, control panels).
  • Working within a critical environment, ensuring up time of systems and rapid response to building services issues.
  • Monitoring BMS systems and responding to alerts.
  • Liaising with site supervisors, shift leads, and clients to deliver a first-class service.
  • Supporting with health & safety, compliance checks, and contractor supervision.
  • Ensuring all work is carried out in accordance with safety procedures and industry standards.

Requirements:

  • NVQ Level 2/3 or City & Guilds in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
  • Strong knowledge of mechanical building services systems in commercial buildings.
  • Basic electrical understanding and 18th Edition (desirable).
  • Experience in a critical or high-end commercial office environment is highly preferred.
  • Comfortable working a continental shift pattern (days & nights).
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently or in a team.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.skillsability to follow job and safetry instructions,assembling furniture,assigning engineers,assiting contracts manager,attend client meetings,boilers,budgets/ wip management,building services,building maintenance,carpentry,carry out reports,changing lamps,client liaison,cleaning skills,closing down jobs,commercial,compliance,concept 500,concept evolution,contractor management,dealing with client and sub contractors,door closers,electrical maintenance,emergency lighting,fire alarms,general administration,geneva,hanging doors,hanging pictures/ noticeboards,h&s,kpi’s,maintaining critical plant,maintenance schedules,manage ppm schedule,maximo,mechanical maintenance,office moves,orangise sub contract labour,oranise permits,organise labour and the procurement of materials and parts,painting and decorating,pipework,planet,p&l responsibility,plumbing,power distribution,ppm,previous cleaning experience,radiators,raising po’s,reactive maintenance,reactive & planned maintenance,residential,risk assessments,service charge,showers,sinks,sla’s,split systems,supervision of engineers,Team leadership,technical back up,testing and inspection,toilets,unblocking toilets,water treatment,wip reports,woodwork…

Posted: April 16th, 2025