Shift Engineer

The Vacancy

⚡ Shift Engineer – Discovery Channel, Chiswick
📍 Location: Chiswick, London
📅 Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent (Shift)

🛠️ About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Shift Engineer to join our dedicated FM WPS team at Discovery Channel in Chiswick. This role involves delivering both planned and reactive maintenance across a high-profile site, with a strong focus on building systems performance, energy efficiency, and compliance with health and safety standards.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

🔹 Respond to and complete help desk tasks (planned and reactive) within agreed timeframes, ensuring accurate reporting and handover to the Supervisor
🔹 Carry out first-line maintenance on all mechanical and electrical plant, including pumps, motors, drives, AHUs, LV switchgear, PLCs, and SCADA systems
🔹 Monitor and optimise building systems to ensure efficient operation and continuous improvement, with a focus on sustainability
🔹 Operate and maintain building services systems in line with site procedures and statutory regulations
🔹 Occasionally support other sites as required

👤 What We’re Looking For

✅ Proven experience in a similar electrical engineering role within facilities or building services
✅ Up-to-date electrical qualifications and a solid understanding of statutory regulations and industry codes of practice
✅ IOSH Working Safely certification (or willingness to obtain)
✅ Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to high standards and quality assurance
✅ Ability to work effectively within a continental shift rota

ℹ️ Additional Information

📌 This role is based on a single site, with occasional travel to other locations
📌 We assess applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis and do not discriminate based on disclosed information

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic 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

Apply Now:
If you’re a qualified Electrical/Mechanical Engineer looking for a dynamic role in a prestigious environment, we’d love to hear from you. Join Wates Property Services and help us deliver excellence at Discovery Channel.

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.