Engineering Manager (FM)

Key Accountabilities

• Provide leadership and ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.
• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are exploited.
• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety process is effectively implemented and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams.
• Ensuring customer focus within all areas of operational activities and that effective relationship are maintained with key client contacts.
• Promoting and maintaining core values.
• Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support mobilisation as required on new contracts.
• Responsible for day to day supervision, operations and maintenance of all electrical and mechanical plant services primarily PPM and reactive works.
• Daily management of engineering team –day and shift engineers.
• To direct, instruct and supervise all contractors as well as subcontractors, insuring staff compliance with working practice.
• To insure the shift log system is updated and complete and the subcontractor visits are logged and any major incidents / problems are attended to.
• To complete monthly and quarterly engineering report insuring that significant events or activities as well as areas of concerns are noted in the report.
• Insure that all matters that have impacted the smooth running of the building and the facilities are immediately reported to senior management throughout the complete escalation procedure.
• Monitor critical areas for cleanliness insuring plant rooms and equipment are regularly checked, cleaned and maintained.
• To conduct regular reviews of operating procedures making recommendations for improvement with appropriate working practices with emergency / contingency procedures with critical systems.
• Liaise and keep informed the senior management on all aspects of contract problems and regularly update on all engineering issues.
• To assist, produce and construct the current CEWA’s and risk assessment which are used throughout all facilities and sites, ensure that all work is inspected prior to closure of the work permits.
• Ensure that all staff is conversant with the operation and control of critical and non-critical systems installed with the client’s portfolio. Spare parts to be checked on delivery for conformity and compliance with the QA policy.
• To manage holiday, sickness, maintaining the correct and required shift level within the building.
• Identify needs / assist in arranging training for engineers.
• Issue workloads (both PPM’s and reactive) on a daily basis as governed by day to day operation.Person SpecificationEssential
• Recognised apprenticeship, ONC / BTEC Electrical / Mechanical engineering or equal.
• A strong and committed team player capable of prioritising and solving problems, utilising innovative solutions.
• Must be well organised with good task management skills.
• Good written & verbal communication skills.
• Computer literate.
• 5 years’ experience in a related environment.
• Strong people management skills.
• Have a positive and proactive approach to work and able to work on own initiative and as part of a team