Use your talents, expertise & ambition, make a difference to your community through joining our Kier FM team on the Stoke & Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Authority contract.

Multi Skilled Gas Engineer & QC

Location: Covering sites across Staffordshire + QC work across the UK

Business Area: Kier Places – Facilities Management – Stoke & Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Authority

Contract & hours: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

Package: Company van + standby & call out (out of hours & weekends)

Kier Places are recruiting today for a Multi Skilled Engineer (Gas Bias), where your role will be key to supporting the delivery of a Facilities Management Hard Technical Services solution for our prestigious client, the Stoke & Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Authority, covering buildings across Staffordshire.

Key Responsibilities

As a focused and reactive Multi Skilled Engineer (Gas Bias), you will deliver a combination of electrical, mechanical, water and building fabric planned (PPM), reactive, quoted, and extra works engineering services specialising in gas disciplines. You will be assisting in ensuring Kier deliver a safe, customer focused, cost effective, efficient, and compliant service in order to meet its contractual and legal obligations.

Whilst gas biased, this role is multi-skilled and encompasses various PPM tasks including, but not limited to, tap testing, flushing & fixing, tap temperatures, shower descaling, legionella tests, pump/compressor fault diagnosis, assessing plant equipment, fire sprinklers, fire alarm, emergency lighting, fuses, desk management, heat recovering units, security, and access control systems generator, HVAC, AHU & compressor maintenance, and other general maintenance works within your abilities such as minor fabric, electric, lighting, water, plumbing & heating repairs.

Gas maintenance activities will include works on gas boilers, gas water heaters, gas pipework testing & purging, gas air heaters and gas radiant tube heaters.

You should also be comfortable working on ladders, in tight spaces, and in plant rooms; working alone or in a team; and be comfortable moving/transporting tooling & access equipment of all sizes & weights.

This role will also include being the Gas QC for the business portfolio on our Schools & Hospitals PFI and Corporate Estate contracts which are predominantly located across the Midlands & Yorkshires. National travel outside of these regions may be required.

What do we need from you?

We’re looking for a proactive Gas Safe Registered Qualified Engineer who holds the following valid Commercial Gas qualifications, certifications & tickets – CCN1, CDGA1, CENWAT, CIGA1, COCN1/CCN1/CODNCO1, CORT1, CPA1, ICPN1, TPCP1 – as well as Electrical Safe Isolation training, Part L Energy Efficiency, and Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems (UHWSS).

To be a Multi Skilled Engineer with Kier, you’ll have general engineering competence and bring previous experience in commercial building services / facilities management; be someone who is able to conduct first line response and servicing of M&E equipment, with fault finding and planned maintenance experience, and a good understanding of SFG20 & service delivery timescales.

As a bonus, you may have PASMA, Working At Height, IPAF certification, and L8 Legionella awareness; and would be an advantage if you also have Electrical qualifications; 18th Edition Wiring Regulations Initial Verification of, and Periodic Inspection, Testing and Certifications of Electrical Installations.

Due to the nature of this position you should have a full UK driving licence, be happy travelling across the region & country to different sites, and be able to participate in the on-call rota system covering out of hours and weekends.

Who are we?

Part of Kier Places, our facilities management teams provide planned and reactive property maintenance services in thousands of buildings around the UK. From central and local government buildings through to hospitals and fire stations, the work that we do supporting vital infrastructure means we can offer you a role that will challenge and reward you, every single day.

At Kier, we’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

• New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

• Kier’s Green Car Scheme

• 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover

• A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

Delivering contracts. Creating communities. Developing careers. Join us today as a Multi Skilled Engineer.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.

Closing Date: 13th August 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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