Job Description

Building Services Engineer

📍 Liverpool Street, London (with occasional travel to Chelmsford)
💷 Up to £48,000 + Paid Overtime & Call-Out
🏢 Pareto FM
🕒 Full-Time

About the Role

Pareto FM has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Building Services Engineer to join our on-site engineering team supporting a prestigious insurance client in the heart of the City of London.

Based primarily at a premium commercial office environment near Liverpool Street, you'll play a key role in ensuring critical building services remain safe, compliant, and fully operational. This is a hands-on position suited to an engineer who enjoys taking ownership of their work, building strong client relationships, and working as part of a collaborative team.

With a mix of planned preventative maintenance, reactive works, compliance activities, and critical plant monitoring, no two days are the same.

The Role

As a Building Services Engineer, you'll be responsible for maintaining and supporting a wide range of mechanical and electrical building services systems, ensuring excellent service delivery and a first-class workplace experience for the client.

While this is not a management role, you'll be trusted to work independently, support colleagues, and demonstrate leadership through your technical expertise, professionalism, and reliability.

What You'll Be Doing

• Delivering planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across M&E systems

• Fault finding and repairing HVAC systems including AHUs, FCUs, VAVs, pumps, and motors

• Monitoring and responding to BMS alarms and critical building systems

• Supporting UPS systems and critical infrastructure maintenance

• Completing statutory inspections and compliance-related tasks

• Updating CAFM systems accurately with completed works and follow-up actions

• Managing permits to work and supporting subcontractors on site

• Conducting routine plant inspections and identifying opportunities for improvement

• Ensuring all maintenance activities are carried out safely and in accordance with site procedures

• Acting as a professional day-to-day point of contact for the client and building occupants

• Supporting the wider engineering team to ensure service excellence across the site

Working Environment

• Predominantly based at a premium commercial office building near Liverpool Street

• Occasional paid travel to a satellite site in Chelmsford

• Fast-paced and varied commercial office environment

• High-profile client with high standards and expectations

• Collaborative and supportive engineering culture

Working Hours & Call-Out

• 40-hour week, Monday to Friday

• Alternating shift pattern:

  • Early Shift: 07:00 – 16:00

  • Late Shift: 09:00 – 18:00

• Paid overtime opportunities available, including evenings and weekends

• Optional on-call rota, currently 1 in 3

• £100 standby payment per on-call period

• Minimum 4 hours paid per call-out at overtime rates

Team & Support Structure

You'll be joining a close-knit on-site engineering team currently consisting of two full-time engineers, supported by:

• Site-Based Technical Manager

• Wider Contract Support Team

• Regular weekly team meetings

• Face-to-face collaboration and knowledge sharing

• A genuine "one-team" culture where engineers support each other and work together to deliver excellent service

What We're Looking For

Essential Qualifications

• Trade background in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

• Trained to City & Guilds standard or equivalent

• City & Guilds 2330 Level 2 & 3 (Electrical) or equivalent

• City & Guilds 6035 Level 3 (Mechanical/Plumbing) or equivalent

• Legionella L8 Awareness (or willingness to undertake training)

Essential Experience

• Experience working within Building Services, Facilities Management, or Commercial Maintenance environments

• Strong background in planned and reactive maintenance

• Experience fault finding across mechanical and electrical systems

• Knowledge of HVAC plant, BMS systems, emergency lighting, and compliance activities

• Experience using CAFM systems and digital maintenance platforms

• Excellent communication and customer service skills

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated and proactive

• Professional and client-focused

• Organised with strong attention to detail

• Calm under pressure and confident solving technical issues

• Team-oriented with a positive approach to supporting colleagues

Training & Progression

Pareto FM is committed to investing in its people and providing genuine long-term career development opportunities.

Successful candidates will have access to:

• Structured technical and compliance training

• Internal e-learning programmes

• Coaching and mentoring opportunities

• ILM leadership and management development programmes

• Cross-functional development opportunities

• Career progression pathways within a growing FM business

• Regular development reviews and succession planning discussions

For the right candidate, there are excellent opportunities to progress into senior engineering, supervisory, management, or specialist technical roles.

Why Join Pareto FM?

• Single high-profile site with minimal travel requirements

• Supportive management team and collaborative engineering culture

• Paid overtime and structured call-out arrangements

• Exposure to premium facilities and critical building systems

• Subsidised food allowance plus unlimited tea and coffee on site

• Strong focus on training, development, and progression

• Opportunity to build a long-term career within a growing and ambitious FM business

If you're an experienced Building Services Engineer looking for a stable role within a prestigious City location, we'd love to hear from you.