Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Stride Recruitment are urgently recruiting for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to be based on-site at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, covering building services PPMs and Reactive Maintenance on a Long Term contract or temp-to-perm position on behalf of our client's on-site Facility Management division.

• Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Plumber – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, NR4 7UY
• Full time – Mon‑Friday, 37.5hrs / week basic hours, paid weekly
• Salary:
  From £22.55 per hour ongoing with overtime at uplifted 1.5× or 2× rate over 37.5 hours

As the Mechanical Maintenance Engineer you will be required to carry out PPM and reactive maintenance breakdowns. The role will require you to do checks to anything from water sampling and planned mechanical maintenance to reactive plant remediations across the hospital alone or working with internal or outsourced colleagues.

• To service and maintain building plumbing services and plant equipment in accordance with relevant standards, frequencies, and safe working practices; respond to reactive breakdowns, carry out fault finding and any necessary repairs.
• Carry out scheduled planned preventative maintenance tasks.
• Have a 'can do' approach to your work ethos.
• Be able to work within a small maintenance team, consisting of a mechanical shift engineer and a semi-skilled shift engineer (plus a full day team of engineering and support staff).

• Good all‑round technical ability and a working knowledge of a wide variety of plumbing systems required, knowledge of building maintenance preferred, but not essential.
• Qualified or Time‑Served NVQ 2+ Mechanical Maintenance Engineer.
• Previous plumbing and mechanical commercial PPM experience required.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral.
• The ability to multi-task and be methodical.
• A pro‑active approach to problem solving.
• Overtime available (shift covers and shut down work, as well as additional remedial works).