Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager - Client Direct - Essex - Up to 64k plus Excellent benefits

Do you live in Essex and are fed up with the daily commute into London?

Have you got a strong maintenance engineering background and are looking for a challenging role within a client side organisation?

If so please read on.... 

One of the leading institutions in Central London is currently looking to recruit an Engineering Manager to work at one of their prestigious buildings based in Essex. 

The role will be working as part of their busy in-house engineering and property team, managing all electrical and mechanical services across the building.

The main duties for the role are as follows:  

• Control of all mechanical services, together with management of all associated engineering contracts.
• Control of all building services, infrastructure, maintenance and repairs.
• Project management of any building refurbishment projects.
• Ensure that all plant, back up and monitoring systems are maintained in good functioning order at all times, including the testing of all essential systems on a regular basis and in accordance with any relevant legislation.
• Control of trouble-shooting engineering support.
• Day to day support and adjustment of infrastructure as required, including liaison with user groups, preparation of documentation for changes, approved appointment of contractors and site supervision.
• Control and management of all relevant budgets.
• Control of all relevant outsourced contracts.
• Ensure all procedures are adhered to by all relevant contractors and in accordance with current legislation.
• Assume full responsibility for the preparation of tender documents/benchmarking exercise for all relevant contracts.
• Ensure frequent checks are carried out to ensure cost effectiveness against market trends and that value for money is realised for all services.
• Chair regular update meetings with all contract managers relevant to services provided.
• Management of M&E related ‘incidents/outages’ 

Applicants for the role must be able to meet the following criteria: 

• Fully electrically or mechanically qualified to HNC level.
• Excellent knowledge of building services systems.
• Previous experience within commercial buildings.
• Excellent people skills.
• Ability to deal with people at all levels.
• Excel – advanced.
• Outlook, Word, Powerpoint.
• Strong knowledge of Building Management Systems.
• Strong communication skills – verbal and written.