Mechanical Building Services Engineer – Manchester Arndale
About the Role
Location: Manchester Arndale
Shift Pattern: 4 on, 4 off. Early 06:30–15:30 | Late 13:30–22:30 | Night 22:00–08:00 - ( 3/4 weeks wihthin 1 year only nights)
We are looking for an experienced, time-served Mechanical Building Services Engineer to join our engineering team. This is a hands-on role maintaining, fault-finding and repairing mechanical plant and building-services equipment within a large, complex public-facing environment. Strong practical experience with pumps and rotating equipment is particularly important, including the ability to isolate, dismantle, repair/rebuild and recommission equipment rather than simply referring defects to specialist contractors.
Key Responsibilities
• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance, fault diagnosis, repairs, plant overhauls and minor installation works on mechanical building-services equipment.
• Maintain, fault-find, strip, inspect, repair/rebuild and recommission pumps and rotating equipment, including bearings, seals, gaskets, belts and couplings.
• Maintain circulating and booster pumps, pressurisation units, LTHW and CHW systems, valves, strainers, expansion vessels and associated controls.
• Maintain AHUs, FCUs and HVAC equipment, including fans, motors, bearings, belts, pulleys, filters, dampers and associated components.
• Maintain and repair calorifiers, heat exchangers, domestic water systems, control/isolation valves and associated mechanical equipment.
• Carry out pipework repairs and alterations, diagnose leaks, pressure/circulation problems and air ingress, and drain, vent, fill and recommission systems following maintenance.
• Use mechanical drawings, plant information and BMS data to investigate heating, cooling and ventilation performance issues.
• Support specialist contractors while retaining ownership of the engineering issue and complete quoted, minor and ad-hoc building-services works as required.
• Accurately record maintenance, defects, remedial actions and plant condition in the CAFM system and produce basic technical/condition reports where required.
• Comply with HSE procedures, permits, RAMS and safe isolation requirements; maintain high standards in plant rooms and workshops and act professionally with the client, tenants, contractors and public.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential
• Recognised mechanical engineering apprenticeship, trade background or equivalent demonstrable time-served mechanical engineering experience.
• NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds Level 3 or equivalent recognised qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Plumbing & Heating, HVAC or a closely related discipline.
• Proven hands-on mechanical maintenance and fault-finding experience within commercial, industrial or large-scale buildings.
• Demonstrable experience dismantling and rebuilding pumps/rotating equipment and replacing bearings, seals, gaskets, belts and couplings.
• Experience maintaining pumps, motors, valves, LTHW/CHW systems, AHUs, FCUs, domestic water systems and associated HVAC plant.
• Practical pipework repair/alteration experience and ability to safely isolate, recommission and return mechanical plant to service.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, schematics and plant information and make sound engineering decisions within level of competence.
• Good understanding of PPM regimes, mechanical Health & Safety requirements and Permit to Work/safe systems of work.
• ACOP L8 / Legionella awareness or equivalent water-hygiene training.
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently in a client-facing, occupied and public-facing environment, including occasional out-of-hours work where required.
Desirable Skills & Experience
• Experience within shopping centres, heritage buildings, hospitals, universities, hotels or other complex estates.
• Experience with booster sets, pressurisation units, plate heat exchangers, calorifiers, control valves and closed-loop heating/chilled-water systems.
• Mechanical plant overhaul/refurbishment, water treatment and closed-system water quality experience.
• BMS operation/fault investigation, VSD-controlled pumps and fans, and basic motor fault diagnosis.
• Building fabric repairs, minor electrical works where appropriately trained and competent, and formal Permit to Work systems.