We're looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join our Kier Places team based in North Essex.

Location: North Essex, Colchester and Harwich 

Hours: 40 hours per week 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Maintenance Engineer, you'll be working within the 1289.KWS PFI team, supporting them in delivering safe, compliant and efficient building services across our sites.

Your day to day will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance, reactive callouts, water hygiene, M&E works, and variations

• Maintaining accurate records of all work carried out, both in hard copy and electronic site manuals

• Participating in the emergency out-of-hours call-out rota

• Building effective working relationships with colleagues, clients and customers

• Ensuring clear communication with customers, line management and support staff

What are we looking for?

This role of Maintenance Engineer is great for you if you have:

• A full UK driving licence

• Enhanced DBS clearance

• Relevant industry qualifications or equivalent UK standard

• Substantial practical experience in building services, including M&E, water hygiene, and legionella (HTM-02, L8)

• Certifications such as CSCS, Working at Height, IPAF, and PASMA

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier