Resident Engineer

Location: Saffron Walden

Job Type: Engineering

Contract: Full Time/Flexible Working

Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2025

The Vacancy

RESIDENT ENGINEER

Join Wates: Resident Engineer Needed!

Wates is offering an outstanding opportunity for a mechanically experienced Resident Engineer to join our team, stationed on-site. Your primary focus will be executing planned preventative maintenance and reactive works on building plant, equipment, and systems, as well as swiftly responding to site engineering emergencies.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Resident Engineer, your core responsibility will revolve around conducting planned preventative maintenance and reactive works on behalf of our clients. Your qualifications and experience in the field are crucial, but what truly sets you apart are your exceptional communication skills, ensuring top-notch customer service delivery. Your ability to multitask effectively, meet tight deadlines, and collaborate seamlessly with your team to troubleshoot on the go is paramount, all while championing health and safety excellence.

Key Accountabilities as Resident Engineer:

Accurately record all reactive and PPM tasks, ensuring detailed documentation is completed and signed off by the client weekly.

Prepare Method Statements and Risk Assessments for all tasks to guarantee safe working practices.

Effectively supervise subcontractors to ensure tasks are completed to the highest standards.

Ensure strict compliance with all Company policies and procedures.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work primarily on a single site, with occasional requirements to conduct work at other sites.

Ready to take the lead in maintaining excellence? Join us at Wates and make your mark! Apply now.

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive salary

  • Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)

  • Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 5% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 22 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…

  • Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.

  • Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 8 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

*Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting


Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

  • Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
  • Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
  • Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.