Maintenance Engineer; Mechanical Bias

Position: Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)
Maintenance Engineer (M&E)

📍 Multi-Site Portfolio (Local / Regional Travel Required)
🏢 Pareto FM
🕒 Full-Time | Monday – Friday

Join a high-performing engineering team where standards matter.

We’re looking for a skilled and proactive Maintenance Engineer to support the delivery of planned and reactive maintenance across a defined portfolio of client sites.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll ensure mechanical and electrical systems are maintained safely, efficiently, and in full compliance, while working as part of a close-knit engineering team.

You’ll cover multiple nearby sites within a regional patch, so some travel between locations is required. (Using company vehicle)

If you enjoy fault-finding, problem-solving, and taking ownership of building performance, this is a strong opportunity to develop within a supportive FM environment.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for maintaining the client’s mechanical and electrical systems, ensuring assets remain safe, reliable, and fully operational.

Key responsibilities include:

* Delivering planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance

* Maintaining and repairing mechanical & electrical systems and associated components

* Fault-finding across HVAC, pumps, generators, lighting and small power systems

* Responding to breakdowns and emergency maintenance situations

* Responding to BMS alarms and carrying out first-line diagnostics

* Ensuring HVAC systems maintain comfortable environmental conditions

* Completing simPRO tasks with accurate records and photographic evidence

* Maintaining logbooks and compliance documentation (electrical, mechanical, water systems)

* Supporting statutory planned maintenance and escalating issues where required

* Carrying out plant start-up, shutdown, changeover and optimisation procedures

* Undertaking regular site walk-rounds to ensure safety, cleanliness and performance

* Supporting subcontractors and reviewing works on site

* Carrying out small repair and installation tasks as required

* Ensuring all plant rooms are safe, tidy and compliant

* Communicating clearly with supervisors, account management and clients

Team Structure

* You will work alongside 2 site engineers and a Contract Support

* Reporting into the Account Manager

* Supported by wider Pareto FM engineering and operational teams

* Strong focus on teamwork, communication and shared standards

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

* City & Guilds Level 3 (Electrical or Mechanical discipline)

* Strong understanding of Electricity at Work Regulations 1989

* Proven experience in Building Services / M&E maintenance

Desirable:

18th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations

IOSH Working Safely

PASMA & IPAF (1b / 3a / 3b)

Unvented hot water systems training

BMS / controls / HVAC / generator systems experience

ACOP L8 / water systems knowledge

Experience Required

Experience working across a range of building services systems, including:

Boiler plant and ventilation systems

Pumps and pressurisation systems

Generators and switch gear

Cables, batteries, lighting and small power systems

Drainage, plumbing and sanitary systems

About You

Customer-focused with a professional approach

Organised and able to manage multiple priorities

Strong fault-finding and problem-solving ability

Comfortable working in a team and independently

Calm and effective in high-pressure situations

Committed to safety, compliance and quality

Why Join Pareto FM?

Stable static role with variety across a local portfolio

Strong team structure and support network

Exposure to a wide range of building systems

Focus on compliance, safety and engineering standards

Opportunities for training and development within FM

If you’re an experienced Maintenance Engineer looking for a stable, well-structured role with variety and support, we’d like to hear from you