Junior Mechanical Engineer

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ROLE: Junior Mechanical Engineer

HOURS: 40 per week

LOCATION: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B37 7ES

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Junior Mechanical Engineer who will undertake mechanical repairs, maintenance tasks and minor installations of mechanical equipment within a commercial environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Undertake planned maintenance activities and repairs on all mechanical equipment, including pumps and mechanical drive systems
• Diagnose and repair simple and complex faults, identifying and actioning any remedial works required
• Produce permits to work and risk assessments, ensuring all tasks are completed safely and within contractual timescales
• Work collaboratively with team members and visiting sub-contractors, ensuring high standards of work and Health & Safety compliance
• Maintain accurate documentation, use handheld technology effectively, and build excellent customer relationships with on-site clients

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, including apprenticeship training
• City & Guilds Level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant mechanical discipline
• Experience in maintenance, testing and fault finding on a variety of mechanical equipment in commercial environments
• Knowledge of Health & Safety regulations and safe working practices

What's in it for you?

• Opportunities for training, development, and participation in appraisal activities
• Additional remuneration for work outside normal hours and participation in on-call rota
• A supportive team environment with opportunities to build strong client relationships

There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Nitika Singh at ***email_hidden***.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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