Facilities Maintenance Engineer

Job Title:

Facilities Maintenance Engineer

Location:

Walsall, West Midlands Compensation:
From £30,000 DOE plus overtime available + Benefits Role Type:
Full time / Permanent Role

Keep Critical Facilities Running. Help Create a Safe and Secure World.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Facilities Maintenance Engineer at Walsall, near Walsall, West Midlands.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and flexible team where no two days are the same. You'll play a vital role in maintaining the facilities and infrastructure that support important operational activities. Whether you're carrying out planned maintenance, responding to breakdowns, or helping improve site performance, your work will make a real difference while developing your technical skills in a dynamic engineering environment.

As a Facilities Maintenance Engineer, you'll provide operational facilities maintenance support across the site, ensuring buildings, equipment, and infrastructure remain safe, reliable, and fit for purpose. This varied role offers the chance to combine electrical and facilities maintenance expertise while contributing to a business that helps support national defence and security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance activities across site facilities and equipment.
• Respond to breakdowns, fault-finding issues, and ensuring systems are made safe and restored efficiently.
• Maintain tools, equipment, site assets, grounds, and housekeeping standards.
• Support contractors and stakeholders by coordinating activities and providing safe site access.
• Update maintenance records while following Health, Safety and Environmental procedures and identifying improvement opportunities.

This role is full time, 39 hours per week and is based  working times are Monday to Thursday, 7:00am to 4:00pm, and Friday, 7:00am to 12:00pm, with flexibility available.

• Previous facilities maintenance experience.
• Electrical maintenance experience.
• Basic Health and Safety awareness.
• Strong problem-solving and fault-finding capability.
• Good IT skills and willingness to learn business systems.

• 18th Edition Qualified (C&G 2382-22) (desirable)
• Test and Inspection Qualified (C&G 2391) (desirable)

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their…