Total 228 Engineering job vacancies in Sheerness, Kent, ME12 4AX

Gas Engineer
Location: Canterbury
Salary: Up to £33,996 per annum


Your new company
Hays are working closely with a Higher Education Establishment based in Canterbury, Kent. They are a leading institution dedicated to excellence in education, research and innovation.
Your new role
To provide reactive maintenance and planned preventive maintenance service to all aspects of the estate. Ensuring compliance with statutory legislation and regulatory requirements are met.
You will be responsible for your day to day planning and work load.
Holding a Commercial Gas Safe qualification you will be involved with working within the main boiler house, commercial gas serving boilers and systems auxiliary water system fault finding, including repairs.
You will perform mechanical maintenance across a range of multi purpose buildings on the estate.
What you'll need to succeed
Registered Apprenticeship in Plumbing or Mechanical services discipline or significant demonstrable experience to an equivalent level
City & Guilds level 3 or equivalent qualification in Plumbing, Gas or Mechanical services discipline
Gas Safe: CCNI Domestic Core Safety, CENWAT - Central heating boilers and water heaters, CKRI - Domestic cookers , CPA1 - Combustion performance analysis
Gas Safe: COCN1, CIGA1 & ICPN1 - commercial gas. TPCP1A - Testing & Purging - commercial gas, or willing to undertake training to achieve Gas Safe: COCN1, CIGA1 & ICPN1 - commercial gas
Proven experience working as a mechanical fitter/plumber in a maintenance environment
Ability to accurately record information electronically using basic IT skills and in writing
Excellent customer service skills

What you'll get in return
43 Days annual leave per year including bank holidays and additional Christmas period days.
Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan.

What you need to do now
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If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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** Gas Engineer required to start immediately for 4-6 weeks **

Day rate is negotiable.

Must be based within Bromley, Bexleyheath & Dartford area.

Own Van & Tools required.

This will be covering various public/commercial buildings.

Paid per mile expenses.

Must have domestic gas tickets.

If you're available please apply right away!

This will be working for a FM service provider company.

1-2 years experience required minimum.

Day to day duties will include:

• Servicing
• Maintenance
• Testing & Customer Service
• Safety & Compliance checks
• Installation

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.

We have a great opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our team that covers Dartford & the wider areas!

The main purpose of the role will be to carry out planned and reactive drainage tasks safely and to a high standard.

You will be providing a first line response to all emergencies during normal working hours and providing an out of hours service when on call, to keep out customer's trading.

• Salary: £35,992 per annum
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE
• Up to 4% discretionary bonus scheme, subject to achievement of targets

Duties & responsibilities:

• Effectively diagnose and identify faults and failures with equipment and systems and provide effective solutions and escalate where necessary.
• Ensure compliance with all health and safety requirements and adhere to best working practices at all times, following processes laid down by the Health and Safety policy.
• Sponsor and complete drainage surveys and technical reports as necessary and to cascade all key data to relevant personnel throughout field operations.
• Be a Brand Ambassador for Arcus, you are what the client sees first; making a good impression, complying with the dress code and maintaining your vehicle in good condition.
• Actively support colleagues building a teamwork approach e.g. - supporting with training and up skilling of apprentices and communicating regularly and assisting when required.

To be sucessful in this role you will need:

• Full UK driving licence (Essential)
• CSCS card (Desirable)
• High pressure water jetting qualification (Desirable)
• Confined space certification (Desirable)
• Understanding of commercial drainage systems ideally gained within a retail environment
• Understanding of CCTV and the ability to work unsupervised in a fast-paced environment dealing with store teams and members of the public

Additional information:

• 45-hour working week
• 1 in 4 week on call rota

When you join us you will receive:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

At Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in-house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross-skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self- delivery capability.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity, apply today by clicking on the 'apply' button.

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Site Engineer

Are you a driven and experienced Site Engineer looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity? A leading Tier 1 Main Contractor who has a strong track record of delivering high quality projects across the UK is currently looking for an experienced Site Engineer to join their new £68m industrial project in Tunbridge Wells

About the role

This large-scale industrial project features a substantial groundworks package with 500,000 Sqft of industrial space, as part of a collaborative team, you will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of this project.

Requirements

• setting out and surveying for the groundwork and structural elements
• monitoring and reporting on site progress, addressing any issues or discrepancies
• liaising with the project management team, subcontractors, and consultants to ensure smooth delivery and coordination
• implementing and maintain health, safety and environmental standards on site
• supporting the project manager in driving the project to successful completion within time and budget

Requirements for the Site Engineer

• Proven experience as a site engineer, ideally with industrial and deep earthworks
• CSCS card and 1st Aid
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced project
• Strong understanding of groundworks including setting out and surveying
• Relevant engineering Qualification

What we offer

This opportunity comes with a competitive salary and package including car allowance, mileage paid, Private health insurance and bonus.

If you want to hear more about this Site Engineer role please apply with an up-to-date copy of your cv or contact Chelsey in our Brighton office on cpotter@fr-group.co.uk

Recruit4staff is proud to be representing their client, a leading Manufacturing / Engineering company in their search for a Field Service Engineer to work in their leading facility in Kent/South London.

For the successful Field Service Engineer, our client is offering:

• Salary £36,000 - £37,500 per annum (Depending on experience)
• Regular Overtime / payable Monday to Saturday X1.5 and Sunday X2.
• 45 hours per week
• Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM
• Permanent days
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Company Van
• Company Laptop and phone
• Company power tools
• Ongoing training and future development
• Death in service
• Company Pension
• Health Care Scheme

The Role – Field Service Engineer:

We are looking for a Field Service Engineer in Kent/South London to be responsible for maintaining, servicing, and repairing third-party equipment. In this role, you will be providing a good level of customer service through product knowledge and customer interaction.

• Complete all service, repair, warranty, and inspection jobs allocated daily to a high-quality standard
• Build strong rapport and relationships with customers through professional behaviour and a customer-focused mindset
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and resolve standard technical problems that arise, ensure ongoing customer satisfaction
• Develop skills and knowledge of the organisation’s products and service
• Comply with all Legal and company standards, such as the code of conduct and H&S practices.

What our client is looking for in a Field Service Engineer:

• Mechanical/Electrical Engineering qualifications/time served (ESSENTIAL)
• Experienced multi-skilled engineering experience with heavy plant equipment and working with Hydraulic Systems (ESSENTIAL)
• Able to read and follow electrical wiring diagrams
• Fault find and diagnostics of CANBUS Systems, as well as electrical fault finding
• Good IT literacy, numeracy, and analytical skills.

Key skills or similar Job titles as the Field Service engineer:

Field Service Engineer, Service Engineer, Mechanical Fitter, Vehicle fitter, HGV fitter, plant fitter, Hydraulics engineer, Site engineer, Agricultural mechanic, Site engineer

The Field Service Engineer position is Commutable From:

Kent, Maidstone, Ashford, Canterbury, Gravesend, South London

For further information about this Field Service Engineers position and/or any other positions, please apply now.

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff (Wrexham) Ltd which is operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agency, employment agency or employment business.

Production Process Operator

Location: Rochester

Shift Pattern: 12-hour shifts

Our client are a forward-thinking company operating a highly automated production site that runs 350 days a year. Their focus is on ensuring efficiency with 24-hour production for 330 of those days. They are currently expanding and looking to bring on a new Production Operative.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain production machinery with a focus on safety and efficiency.
• Ensure smooth running of the production site and adhere to maintenance cycles (every 30 days).
• Monitor the automated processes, and if required, perform light manual tasks
• Observe and maintain quality standards.
• Participate in comprehensive training, including forklift operation.

Education/Experience:

• A-Level in Chemistry or experience in the oil and gas industry or plastics industry
• Master's Degree in Chemistry (Desirable)
• Computer literacy is essential.
• Previous experience in a production environment (particularly in oil, gas, or plastics) would be advantageous.

CVs in Word Format to s.visser@newappointmentsgroup.co.uk
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Job Title: Mobile commercial gas engineer

Location: Tunbridge Wells

Salary: £46k

I am currently working on behalf of a large FM and maintenance company, seeking an experienced and qualified commercial gas engineer. This will be a semi mobile based role covering 2 commercial properties, in the Tunbridge Wells. Ideally the candidate has experience working within commercial environments carrying out all areas of commercial gas maintenance and minor remedial tasks .

Package includes:

• Competitive Salary (Depending on Experience)
• Overtime Available
• Core hours Monday to Friday (40 hour week)
• Annual leave + bank holidays
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Training and Development Courses
• Vehicle + Fuel Card

As a Gas Engineer the post holder is responsible for planning and carrying out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive repairs to Commercial/Industrial boilers and completing inspection and gas safety check certificates .

Main duties will include:

• Ensure that Planned Preventative Maintenance is carried out in line with task schedules, frequencies and industry best practices.
• Identify any defects found and provide parts list and estimated timescales to complete the defects.
• Ensure Boilers are transported and handled in accordance with current Health & Safety Regulations.
• Establish and maintain a good working relationship with all colleagues and customers.
• Carry out installation, repairs, maintenance and plan operational duties, working with the various systems and reporting as requested.
• Likely to be involved with appliances such as small scale plant rooms, centralised heating boilers, gas heaters etc.
• Likely to visit customer premises, (commercial), to fit, service and repair boilers and centralised heating systems that have broken down.
• Assessing, dismantling, repairing or replacing relevant parts
• Support the field service team and upkeep and maintain the various internal operational processes.

The Ideal candidate must have the following:

• Domestic Gas Qualifications - Desirable
• Commercial Tickets
• Commercial Catering Tickets - Highly Desirable
• Experience working within commercial Environments
• Driving licence
• Ipaf & PASMA
• OFTEC will be desirable
• Multi-skilled experience within minor electrical / Fabric tasks

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.

Randstad is recruiting a Refrigeration Engineer to join a National Facilities Maintenance Contractor.

The role offers substantial company benefits as well as career progression.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring a proactive and smooth operation of refrigeration maintenance across North Kent/Essex sites.

Salary: Up to £46,000pa

Call Out: 1 in 6

This is a key position, carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across several site locations.

You will be the first line in all service and maintenance throughout your allocated sites.

To effectively maintain service and repair Refrigeration Equipment in customer locations and provide assistance to HVAC equipment containing refrigeration circuits.

Responsibilities:

• Prioritise maintenance and repair work to achieve agreed timescales and response times.

• Identify non-repairable faults promptly advise the Line manager of findings, with recommendations regarding suitable replacements.

• To ensure PPM schedules are completed within agreed timescales and that all necessary paperwork is completed accurately and to the laid-down procedures.

• Ensure that all technical and compliance paperwork is always completed and up to date.

• Requirement to participate on an out of hours standby rota. Responsible for arranging & communication of any cover required due to holidays/ unforeseen circumstances to line manager.

• To be aware of regulations and codes of practise applicable to the tasks.

• To order and fit parts or components as prescribed by company procedures.

• Respond promptly and positively to service call requests from the Helpdesk and to assess the requirements of the job and carry out repairs as and where necessary

• To carry out surveys and complete reports as required by the refrigeration supervisor/ RFM.

• All work will be completed to the highest standards in an efficient and cost-effective manner, whilst complying with the laid-down Company Health and Safety policy.

• To carry out all tasks assigned within the allotted time period to the satisfaction of the company and client.

• To attend training courses as and where necessary and to ensure personal job skills keep pace with technical and business developments.

• To comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and the company's Health and Safety Policy at all times.

Qualifications & Skills Required:

• NVQ/C&G Refrigeration Based Qualification or similar

• Refrigeration

• Electrical Knowledge

• Air Conditioning

• Mechanical Knowledge

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.

79281 - Quality Engineer

This Quality Engineer will report to the Quality and Assurance Manager and will work within Governance, Risk, Compliance & Quality with UKPN Services based in our Chatham/South East office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £51,245, plus car and a bonus of 3%

Close Date:.19/11/2024

JOB PURPOSE:

You will provide competent quality management advice to promote compliance to ISO 9001: 2015 in the review, audit, certification, induction and management of procedures and processes in electrical infrastructure construction projects.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Provide Quality Management advice about ISO 9001: 2015 to other advisors, managers, employees, contractors and clients, both in the tendering and construction phases. Aim to maintain UK Power Networks Services' quality management system to ensure it can design, build, finance, operate and maintain primary electrical infrastructure for its clients.

2. Contribute to the review of existing and the development of new procedures/processes. Procedures include those from central UK Power Networks group and those which are UK Power Networks Services' project/contract specific. There will also be involvement in the communication, implementation and monitoring within the directorate;

3. Monitor compliance with ISO 9001: 2015, procedures, legal and moral obligations, and national, international and client standards. Plan project audits against agreed level 2, 3 and 4 schedules. Will undertake quality management system audits, produce audit reports and ensure findings are resolved promptly.

4. Assist and offer guidance to Project Managers in reviewing quality related project documents and requirements. Develop appropriate quality management system inductions, training and communication materials for the project team and subcontractors. Gather lessons learnt and maintains the project cost of poor quality process. Provide Project Managers with quality related updates for inclusion in monthly reports. Support any quality management system incident investigations.

5. Provide a monitoring function to ensure that suppliers, subcontractors and the services they provide exceed our quality management system expectations. This may include conducting external audits and undertaking random performance inspections of field teams to identify issues requiring improvement and highlighting good performance.

6. Monitor site certification of materials and equipment, including tool calibration, to ensure compliance with client and project requirements. To maintain associated project records to compile final data book documentation.

7. Facilitate third-party audits of UK Power Networks Services by external certification bodies. Champion quality management system processes in the business to ensure certification requirements are maintained.

NATURE AND SCOPE:

UK Power Networks group is owned by the Cheung Kong Group who are one of the largest investors in the UK and employ over 300,000 people in 52 countries. UK Power Networks owns and maintains electricity cables and lines across London, the South East and East of England and employs over 6000 people. UK Power Networks Services are the unregulated commercial arm of this business.

UK Power Networks Services are a national provider of power distribution and distributed energy solutions which improves customers' existing electrical assets and integrates new technologies to deliver improved performance and commercial benefits. Working in the transport, defence, manufacturing and industrial, public and nuclear sectors the business is growing and needs accomplished individuals to be part of this exciting change.

You will report to the Quality and Assurance Manager and be a member of the UK Power Networks Services Quality and Assurance team.

You will visit UKPN Services and client offices and project sites.

You will work with management across all directorates. You will have also represent us at operational/project level with external partners.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• HNC (minimum requirement) qualification in a discipline such as Quality Management, Construction, Project Management or Technical/Engineering or equivalent.
• As a minimum be a Practitioner member of the Chartered Quality Institute with an aspiration to gain Chartered status, which we will support;
• Have quality management system experience gained in the construction industry (manufacturing based or other experience would not be suitable);
• Be a trained QMS Auditor/Internal QMS Auditor with experience in auditing to ISO 9001: 2015;
• Have experience of root cause analysis
• Attain several client access passes and licenses that may be required to work within UK industries such as airports, defence, nuclear, rail and underground rail;
• Hold a valid UK driving licence

Desirable

• Flexible in your approach to work and be prioritise as directed by the Quality and Assurance Manager and Project Manager on assigned projects or contracts;
• Audit to ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018 requirements would be desirable;
• Knowledge of ISO 55001: 2014, ISO 44001: 2017, ISO 19650-1: 2018, ISO 19650-2: 2018, ISO 19650-3: 2020 and ISO 19650-5: 2020 would be advantageous;
• Be a team player and with other staff and clients within the business;
• Have excellent communication, presentation, planning and decision making skills at all seniority levels;
• Can work with IT software packages such as Microsoft office;

Job Description:

Are you a qualified Electrical Maintenance Engineer with commercial maintenance
experience? Are you looking for a company to offer up skilling and training?

They are seeking an experienced Electrical Maintenance Engineer who has experience working
within commercial environments carrying out all areas of Electrical
maintenance (Mobile role and static role/Shift role) and minor remedial tasks. This is mainly a Monday to Friday
role but will require some weekend work and call outs. This will be focused on various
commercial sites, the role will be covering DARTFORD and the surrounding
areas.

Package includes:

• Salary £43K
• Core hours Monday to Friday
• Annual leave (25 days + 8 Bank Holidays)
• Pension Scheme
• Training and Development Courses
• No Use of pool van whilst on site
• Call out
• Overtime

Requirements / Qualifications:

Qualification in either of these are preferred but not essential and clients will look at someone who has time served experience.

• NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds Level 3
• NVQ Level 3 Electro technical Technology (the main one that includes AM2, ECS, Gold Card, C&G 2391 Testing & Inspection) = ideal qualification
• City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical Installations
• City & Guilds 2391 Testing and Inspection
• The 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018, wiring regs, the regs) - 17th edition is the slightly older/out of date version but is still accepted by some clients
• PAT testing

Day to Day Duties:

• Lighting- Change of lamps and ballasts
• Emergency light testing
• Power distribution
• Electrical fault-finding
• Small works - new sockets, new lights, new circuits
• PAT Testing
• Control Panel maintenance
• Transformers
• Star Delta Starters

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.