Total 23 Engineering job vacancies in Preston, Lancashire

Associate Application Engineer

Pay up to £38,373, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for an Associate Application Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Lead criterion - Experience of developing high quality, robust applications using the Microsoft Power Platform and Power Automate.
• Experience of working as part of a highly functioning multidisciplinary team supporting Agile/Rapid application developments environments.
• Knowledge and experience of assist with troubleshooting and the resolution of issues related to Power Platform applications.
• Experience of implementing best-practices and standards to delivery quality, clean to operate, maintainable and secure code/applications.
• Experience of creating, supporting and updating of technical documentation and processes.
• Knowledge and experience of managing support tickets within a ticket database such as ServiceNow.

You and your role

As an Associate Application Engineer, you will be integral to the development of applications and the conversion of legacy systems into low-code/power apps using Microsoft's Power Platform and Power Automate systems, contributing to the design. You will be a part of the larger development team and community, helping to champion best practices and adding your experience to the wider development discussion, whilst being supported in your continued learning and professional development.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool or Manchester, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £38,373.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £11,089 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 24 days and rising to 26 days after one year.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

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An excellent opportunity for an Experienced Lift Engineer to join a well-established company.

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent.
Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 Per Annum, Depending on Experience.
Candidate Location: North West, Within 35-mile radius of Ormskirk.

About the Company:

They are an independent lift installation, servicing and repair company based in Ormskirk, Lancashire specialising in lift maintenance, lift & elevator repairs, lift refurbishment and the installations of lifts.

Priding themselves in the quality of lift installation and maintenance services provided to all of their customers, providing their services 24hrs a day throughout the Northwest area.

Their works are delivered to their client’s utilising their own directly employed engineers for which they now seek to add further engineers to their valued team to deliver.

About the Role:

They now require a further lift engineer to complement their existing team of directly employed lift engineers.

The position is a permanent role and not on a sub-contract basis working on goods, passenger, service and platform lifts.

The role requires, but is not limited to:

• Pre-planned preventative maintenance and service visits.
• Call-out attendance and minor repairs.
• Participation within the company callout rota.

Candidate Requirements:

• Prior lift engineering experience is essential an EOR202 is required as the minimum
• Further progression and NVQ3/NVQ4 training qualifications available
• Overtime paid at premium rates above basic hourly rate
• Out of Hours working paid door to door
• 33 days annual leave inclusive of public bank holidays
• Full and current UK driving license essential
• Company van and mobile phone
• Company pension scheme
• Immediate starts are available for the right candidate
• Candidates must be authorised to work within the UK


If you feel that you have the relative skills/attributes to fulfil this role then please apply now!

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability. The employer welcomes applications from all candidates who match their requirements and their decision for employment will be based purely on your skills/qualifications.

Product Security Assurance Engineer Preston £47k-£55k + Benefits

My client are a multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, they are currently looking for a number of Product Assurance Engineers to join their team based in Preston.

The ideal candidate will be a pro-active problem solver with excellent communication and IT skills. You will have the ability to coordinate and manage programmes, forging relationships with all stakeholders and with the experience of delivering to customers requirements, within timescales and budgets.

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting engagement with the GCAP International Government Organisation (GIGO) as required across the engineering lifecycle meet the Secure by Design policy objectives
• Supporting the Engineering Disciplines, contributing to achieving assurance to the GIGO, ultimately achieving a Security Authority to Operate for the GCAP System
• Identifying the MODs requirements for assurance of the GCAP system
• Create a plan of how these requirements will be addressed within and across the programme
• Manage and act as the internal review for the assurance deliverables

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree educated in a STEM discipline or HND/HNC or time served experience with a clear understanding of the Engineering Lifecycle
• Sound experience in a systems integration environment
• Knowledge of security accreditation/assurance processes and activities, although knowledge or airworthiness or quality processes may be beneficial

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Model Based Engineering approaches and the supporting methods and toolsets.

To apply for this role please send your cv to Peter Bibby on the email address below...

Communication Respond to complaints and concerns from the public regarding services or equipment maintenance. Provide a response which is empathetic in relation to the issues involved. Participate in and communicate with Trust committees including the provision of reports in relation to the Engineering department services. Keep accurate and complete records of all activities and ensure written communication is consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures. Liaise with the Trust Medical Device Management Group in relation to the Engineering responsibilities for Medical Devices. Facilitate and cascade information to the team e.g. Team Brief, meetings etc. providing a regular briefing in relation to performance, service developments and change management. Ensure Estates colleagues and the wider Trust are kept aware of changes to both Statutory and NHS applicable guidance via verbal communications, email updates or formal reports. Communicate with people in a form and manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating. Communicate as and when required with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Liaise with Safety Inspectors, Risk Managers and developing and maintaining positive working relationships with staff side H&S reps. Ensure close working relationships with all other leads within the Division and clinical locations to achieve a Patient focused service delivery model. Reviewing/audit Identify and evaluate areas for potential service improvement. Develop and prepare various management reports on Engineering services, risk, performance as and when required. Lead audits as required. Participate in review of standards and performance. Regularly review the use of highly complex engineering systems to ensure that they continue to meet demand criteria and users expectation of the service, particularly where such services have a direct impact on clinical care or safety. Investigate and prepare reports on complaints received from patients, visitors, staff and public regarding services provided by the Engineering Department. Ensure compliance with HSE guidance and other Approved Codes of Practice. Monitor, audit and document H&S compliance. Participate in Trust H&S meetings and report on Engineering compliance levels. Assist the Assistant Director of Estates in the development and regular review of the Estates Strategy considering Trust service strategies and Trust wide service development plans. Development Ensure own continual professional development is appropriately managed as per registration requirements and demands of the role. To hold monthly one to one meetings with direct reports, focusing on the achievement of actions, priorities, providing support and positive challenge. Delegate work to team members as appropriate in line with their individual skills, development needs and aspirations. Address issues and concerns that may inhibit staff from achieving both their personal and organisational goals. Enable and encourage others to offer suggestions, ideas, and views for improving services. Ensure all team members have a meaningful annual appraisal and annual personal development plan to ensure delivery of personal, directorate and Trust objectives. Ensure that Engineering staff are appropriately trained both for their general responsibilities and to maintain dedicated or specialist devices. Contribute to the development of others enabling them to make realistic self-assessments and apply their knowledge and skills in practice. Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice. Management Overall Responsibility for Managing the Engineering Department to ensure that all Engineering building services, and equipment are complaint with statutory legislation and guidance. Responsible for producing and implementing departmental procedures as appropriate, contribute to Trust Policies. Provide a source of expertise, information, and training for equipment users at all levels. Manage the recruitment, appointment, induction, training, and retention of staff, including chairing interview panels. Ensure that Workforce policies and management standards are adhered to. Deliver difficult and challenging conversations and management meetings, as required, to ensure management processes and standards are adhered to. Manage and support the Trust Energy Manager (band 7) Ensure budgets remain on target and engineering services are managed and maintained to maximise efficiency and help reduce energy usage and carbon emissions. Prepare reports, efficiency schemes and business cases to help drive the Sustainability agenda from an estates perspective. Ensure staff are appropriately trained and that training remains in date. Accountability for the budget and financial performance of both Engineering and Energy revenue budgets and any delegated Capital Schemes. Develop Trust policies relating to the Management of key services and equipment. Deputise for the Assistant Director of Estates when required.

Prestigious opportunity for an IT Infrastructure Engineer with a Global highly acclaimed Retail organisation based in Blackburn. With sites across the UK and Europe, following a period of significant growth and investment, we are seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join our success story.

As one of our IT Infrastructure Engineers you will be responsible for:-

• Working with the Infrastructure Manager to ensure changes are planned and implemented in a structured and assured way.
• Testing of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.
• Infrastructure incident management and resolution.
• Actioning any alerts generated by the monitoring systems in a timely manner
• Supporting the IT Service Desk function.
• Proactively seeking opportunities from across the organisation to improve the infrastructure.
• Documenting common practice, process flow diagrams and maintaining the knowledge base.

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!

• Active Directory Administration.
• Office 365 / Exchange online
• Hypervisor technologies (Hyper-V, AHV or equivalent).
• Networking knowledge (LAN, IPv4, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, Managed Switches, VLANs).
• PowerShell or any other scripting language or automation methodology.
• Windows Server (2008-2019).
• Windows (7, 10).
• Veeam Backup - desired but not essential.
• Linux/Unix administration experience - desired but not essential

In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing career development and training in addition to an enviable team environment, and an extensive benefits package!

What you need to do now


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Randstad C&P are recruiting for an experienced Mechanical Engineer within Preston. In this
role, you will optimise factory operations by resolving breakdowns and ensuring maintenance is
delivered on schedule. You will also drive improvements in machinery, hygiene, quality, and
performance across the site.

Salary: Competitive (up to £41,000 per annum)

Location: Preston (static

Role: Full-time, permanent

Benefits:

● Competitive salary between £30,000 - £40,000 pa.
● Full-time, permanent role
● Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
● Company pension scheme.
● Employee discounts.
● Free on-site parking.

Duties and Responsibilities:

● Oversee all reactive and proactive maintenance activities across the site, ensuring
compliance with regulatory standards and adherence to the highest quality
standards.
● Liaise with management on ongoing and required maintenance works, effectively
managing maintenance work orders from various departments.
● Perform routine and Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) on machinery,
including filling equipment, tanks (including newmatic tanks), and conveyors,
ensuring timely completion and a proactive maintenance approach.
● Respond promptly to maintenance calls, prioritise issues, delegate tasks, and attend
to plant and machinery breakdowns as needed.
● Monitor equipment performance, implement improvement initiatives for machinery
and site operations, and deliver on plant up-time and maintenance KPIs.

Requirements:

● Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience, preferably in a regulated
environment with GMP standards.
● Recognised formal engineering qualifications (NVQ Level 3 or higher in electrical/
plumbing or mechanical engineering; HNC/HND preferred).
● Experience with electrical and mechanical fault-finding and repair.

Requirements:

● Knowledge of three-phase motor drives and production equipment.
● PLC fault-finding experience is desirable but not essential.
● 16th/18th Edition certification is desirable but not mandatory.
● Excellent problem-solving and team-working skills.
● Strong organisational and efficiency skills with the ability to work independently.

Interested? Apply today with an up-to-date CV

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.

Mobile Multi Skilled Engineer - Mechanical bias (FM) - Facilities Management - Preston, England - £37,000 Plus Fully expensed van

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join one of the leading facilities management companies based in the UK.

Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 40 hours a week

Location: Preston, England

Salary: £37,000 Plus fully expensed van

Role Responsibilities:

• Reactive work on single and three phase circuits, single and three phase power systems/HVAC equipment, pumps, motors, inverters, building management systems and lighting circuits.
• answering queries, reporting any defects, and keeping them informed of site activities at the time of the service visit.
• keeping a log of inspection reports and remedial work
• Conduct PPM and reactive Maintenance
• maintain and repair installations such as ventilation systems - (AHU, Intake/extract)
• heating and cooling systems (thermal wheels, FCUs, etc.) and water system assets, such as booster sets, calorifiers, water heaters.

The ideal Candidate:

• electrical (18th edition, NVQ2&3 minimum),
• mechanical (NVQ2&3 minimum) or HVAC (NVQ2&3 minimum).
• Full UK driving license
• ability to gain SC Security Clearance

If you are interested in this position, please contact Laurie on 029222 60797.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Your new company
Join a dynamic and innovative company known for its commitment to quality and excellence in the FMCG sector. Our team is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in production and engineering, ensuring the safety, quality, and legality of all products and processes.
Your new role
As the Engineering Maintenance Shift Manager, you will ensure the smooth operation of all machinery in the designated production area. You will lead and coordinate the activities of Lead Engineers and Multi-skilled Engineers, focusing on health and safety, contractor management, food safety, and quality. Your responsibilities will include planning and managing Preventative Planned Maintenance schedules, overseeing staffing levels, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
What you'll need to succeed

• Education: HND/HNC level or equivalent in Engineering.
• Experience: At least 5 years of engineering experience, with 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Skills:
  Strong PC skills and excellent communication abilities.
  Analytical and systematic approach.
  Ability to understand basic customer needs and create solutions.
  Patience and persistency in work.
  Ability to establish working relationships and integrate into a team.
  Clear communication of short and long-term objectives.
  Understanding of risks and success factors in your area of responsibility.
  Proactive identification of tasks and ownership of actions.
• Attributes: Positive, motivated, team player, detail-oriented, and flexible.

What you'll get in return

• Opportunity to play a key role within a dynamic FMCG environment.
• Supportive team culture and a chance to work with experienced professionals.
• Competitive salary £63,000 and benefits package.
• Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
• Trained to L3 Food Safety
• Trained to L3 HACCP
• Trained in IOSH Managing Safely

What you need to do now
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Your new company
Join a dynamic and innovative company known for its commitment to quality and excellence in the FMCG sector. Your new team is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in production and engineering, ensuring the safety, quality, and legality of all products and processes.

Your new role
As the Engineering Maintenance Shift Manager, you will ensure the smooth operation of all machinery in the designated production area. You will lead and coordinate the activities of Lead Engineers and Multi-skilled Engineers, focusing on health and safety, contractor management, food safety, and quality. Your responsibilities will include planning and managing Preventative Planned Maintenance schedules, overseeing staffing levels, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures. You will work on a 4-5-5 shift pattern.

What you'll need to succeed

• Education: HND/HNC level or equivalent in Engineering.
• Experience: At least 5 years of engineering experience, with 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Skills:
  Strong PC skills and excellent communication abilities.
  Analytical and systematic approach.
  Ability to understand basic customer needs and create solutions.
  Patience and persistency in work.
  Ability to establish working relationships and integrate into a team.
  Clear communication of short and long-term objectives.
  Understanding of risks and success factors in your area of responsibility.
  Proactive identification of tasks and ownership of actions.
• Attributes: Positive, motivated, team player, detail-oriented, and flexible.

What you'll get in return

• Opportunity to play a key role within a dynamic FMCG environment.
• Supportive team culture and a chance to work with experienced professionals.
• Competitive salary £63,000 and benefits package.
• Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
• Trained to L3 Food Safety
• Trained to L3 HACCP
• Trained in IOSH Managing Safely

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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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Senior NetOps Engineer

Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• Would you love the opportunity to install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve a large government organisation's operating environment - powering one of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

• Are you someone who could maintain the ongoing reliability, performance and support of our infrastructure?

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior NetOps Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• The ability to design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as: AWS, Azure and OCI
• Ensures that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate Network problems.
• Takes accountability of issues that occur and is proactive in searching for potential problems.
• Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, CI/CD pipelines. Gitlab, Ansible, Python, Terraform.

You and your role

As a Senior NetOps Engineer you will have the ongoing responsibility for the full range of products that make up Network Services.

The role will involve creating and developing our DevOps/ NetOps culture in the team as we transition to new ways of working.

Working in collaboration with a range of internal/external partners, stakeholders and customers you will ensure the operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality of DWP Networks.

You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £68,517.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Prestigious opportunity for an IT Infrastructure Engineer with a Global highly acclaimed Retail organisation based in Blackburn. With sites across the UK and Europe, following a period of significant growth and investment, we are seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join our success story.

As one of our IT Infrastructure Engineers you will be responsible for:-

• Working with the Infrastructure Manager to ensure changes are planned and implemented in a structured and assured way.
• Testing of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.
• Infrastructure incident management and resolution.
• Actioning any alerts generated by the monitoring systems in a timely manner
• Supporting the IT Service Desk function.
• Proactively seeking opportunities from across the organisation to improve the infrastructure.
• Documenting common practice, process flow diagrams and maintaining the knowledge base.

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!

• Active Directory Administration.
• Office 365 / Exchange online
• Hypervisor technologies (Hyper-V, AHV or equivalent).
• Networking knowledge (LAN, IPv4, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, Managed Switches, VLANs).
• PowerShell or any other scripting language or automation methodology.
• Windows Server (2008-2019).
• Windows (7, 10).
• Veeam Backup - desired but not essential.
• Linux/Unix administration experience - desired but not essential

In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing career development and training in addition to an enviable team environment, and an extensive benefits package!

What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Full time position available for skilled manual machinists (turners / millers / horizontal & vertical borers).

Ability to read/understand engineering drawings and measure accurately essential. Also a willingness to learn and challenge yourself.
Varied and interesting jobs - not mass production.
Overtime regularly available.


Salary:
£15.00 per hour plus (dependent on experience)

39 Hours per week:
Day Shift
Monday to Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 08:00 - 13:00
Overtime Rate Applicable
25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays

THE BUSINESS

Mill Hill Heavy Engineering are seeking time served Manual Machinists to join our company based in Blackburn. The company specialises in the engineering of large machined parts & equipment for power generation, oil & gas, paper industries and much more. We service a variety of customers from small enterprises to blue chip customers in the UK and overseas. We are at an exciting point in our development and, due to considerable growth, require more manual machinists to join our busy machining team.

THE ROLE

To ensure safety and quality procedures are adhered to and assist in the improvement of processes.
Timely production of parts to pre-determined deadlines.
Produce work to the highest quality standard to achieve customer satisfaction.
Work within British Standards as per company procedures.
Support internal teams to get to the root cause of specific issues.
To take part in specialist or multi-disciplinary team activities.
To behave in a professional manner at all times when dealing with customers, suppliers and colleagues.

THE PERSON

Time served Machinist
Experience running manual lathes
Manual milling, slotting, vertical & horizontal boring
Ability to work to fine tolerances
Good team work and machining capability is essential

Do you live in or around the Preston area?

Are you an experienced M&E Engineer?

If so, we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting an M&E Engineer to join our facilities management team.

• Salary: £35,131 or £40,401 per annum, depending on experience
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Additional earnings available through enhanced overtime rates
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

If you have a fully valid UK driver's license, Multi-skilled M&E experience, and want to progress your career with an award-winning FM provider then read on….

You'll be out and about on the road travelling to your own dedicated sites as our client's first point of call for PPM and reactive M&E and other general building services maintenance. Tasks could include emergency light testing, fire alarms, lamp changes, basic plumbing, and fabric work.

You'll enjoy working autonomously, where you will be responsible for delivering planned and preventative maintenance, fault finding and repair work. Ideally, you will have the ability to confidently carry out a range of other mechanical tasks as well.

To be successful you will have:

Essential:

• 18th edition
• HVAC Experience
• Full Valid UK driver's license
• "On the job" experience working in an M&E Engineer role or similar
• Strong communication skills and work ethic
• Awareness and knowledge of health & safety

Desirable:

• F-Gas qualification
• IOSH working safely qualification
• Plumbing experience
• Basic fabric skills
• 2391 testing inspection

Other benefits:

• 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

Other Information

• The role will involve working 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• The role will also involve working 1 in 4 weeks on call

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.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed, please submit your application by clicking on the 'apply' button.

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NetOps Engineer

Pay up to £52,442 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• Would you love the opportunity to install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve a large government organisation's operating environment - powering one of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

• Are you someone who could maintain the ongoing reliability, performance and support of our infrastructure?

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a NetOps Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• The ability to design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as AWS and Azure
• Experience in ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate network problems.
• The ability to take responsibility of issues that occur and be able to be proactive in searching for potential problems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, CI/CD pipelines. Gitlab, Ansible, Python, Terraform.

You and your role

As a NetOps Engineer you will have the ongoing responsibility for the full range of products that make up Network Services.

The role will involve creating and developing our DevOps/ NetOps culture in the team as we transition to new ways of working.

Working in collaboration with a range of internal/external partners, stakeholders and customers you will ensure the operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality of DWP Networks.

You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £52,442.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

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Data Engineer

Pay up to £73,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a Senior Data Engineer you will be working within a high-performing team of engineers, offering guidance and support, developing data-centric solutions that positively impact millions of DWP users, helping them to find and use essential DWP services.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience of Splunk or Power BI build and development to ensure we can maximise the technology available.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of relevant data sources, tools and systems, approaches for verifying and validating data.
• Experience of building team capability through role modelling, mentoring or coaching.

Desirable criteria (it's great if you've got these - if not, you can learn them here)

• Working knowledge of ServiceNow.
• Understanding of ITIL and/or IT service management.
• Line management experience.

You and your role

You'll be joining our Service Performance team, which monitors services across DWP's digital landscape of over 700 software applications and systems.

You will be using Splunk, PowerBI, and ServiceNow to collate, review and draw insights on services, developing dashboards that are essential to our wider teams and stakeholders.

You will also be prototyping, and demonstrating the possibilities of data visualisation.

This is an opportunity to be creative and innovative, potentially bringing in new tooling ideas, data items and ways of working to bring data to life and championing new ways of working, data solutions and stakeholder engagement.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester, or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £73,517.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,246 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme