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Depot Lead Engineer


Company : Arcus FM


Location : dunstable, east anglia


Created : 2025-06-23


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Are you an experienced Depot Maintenance Engineer?Are you looking for the next step in your career?If so, we may have a role which is suited to you as we are recruiting a Lead Depot Engineer to join our facilities management team, delivering planned preventive and reactive maintenance services to our site-based client in Dunstable!Salary: £40,800 per annumAdditional earnings available through overtime4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets (historically paid out)Tools, uniform, PPE25 days holiday, plus bank holidaysGroup personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%What You'll Be DoingAs the Lead Engineer you will overseeing 'supporting site engineers & contractors to ensure that planned and reactive maintenance tasks are completed to the required service level.As well as this, you will also be required to provide first line response to all planned maintenance tasks and emergencies during normal working hours and out of hours when on call.Being responsible for the call out rota to ensure adequate and safe cover at all times is also an essential part of this role.What We're Looking ForTo be successful you will have:QualificationsA recognised apprenticeship or qualification (such as City and Guilds, BTEC, NVQ), or significant proven demonstrable experience in mechanical and electrical services18th Edition electrical qualificationKnowledge & ExperienceTechnical knowledge and experience of maintenance and repair of a complex working environment including electrical and mechanical equipment whilst complying with all Safety and Environmental standardsKnowledge of the building tradeAsset protectionFire Alarm systems maintenanceKnowledge of Racking – SEMA qualification preferredLine management experienceHealth & Safety experiencePrevious experience in a facilities management role, ideally in a distribution centre environmentOther benefits include, but are not limited to:Life Assurance Access to state-of-the-art training academyFunded Training Sponsorship SchemeRefer a Friend reward schemeCycle to Work SchemeHealth Cash PlanUp to 10% off B&Q / Trade Point20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing CentresOther Information:You’ll be working 40 hours per week, Monday to FridayThere is a requirement to work 1 in 2 weeks on callThere is a degree of flexibility required, as determined by business requirements which involves travelling to other Depots to provide on call support, cover for absence or where work requirements are dictated. Any time travelled to the campus / sister site will be within working hoursAt Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in-house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross-skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self- delivery capability.Don’t miss out on this great opportunity, apply today by clicking on the ‘apply’ button.