Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Stride Recruitment are urgently recruiting for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to be based on-site at Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford covering building services PPM’s and Reactive Maintenance, on a Long Term contract on behalf of our client’s on-site Facility Management division.

Key Details

• Location: Darent Valley Hospital, DA2 8DA
• Full time – Mon‑Friday, 37.5 hrs/week (basic hours paid per week)
• Salary: £22.55 per hour ongoing, with overtime at 1.5× or 2× rate over 37.5 hrs

Core Requirements

• Carry out PPM and reactive maintenance breakdowns; perform checks from water sampling to reactive plant remediations.
• Service and maintain building plumbing services and plant equipment in accordance with relevant standards, frequencies, and safe working practices.
• Respond to reactive breakdowns, carry out fault finding and necessary repairs.
• Carry out scheduled planned preventive maintenance tasks.
• Have a ‘can‑do’ approach to work ethos.
• Be able to work within a small maintenance team, consisting of a mechanical shift engineer and a semi‑skilled shift engineer (plus a full day team of engineering and support staff).

Qualifications and Skills

• Good all‑round technical ability and working knowledge of a wide variety of plumbing systems; knowledge of building maintenance preferred but not essential.
• Qualified or Time‑Served NVQ2+ Mechanical Plumber.
• Previous plumbing and mechanical commercial PPM experience required.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to multitask and be methodical.
• A proactive approach to problem solving.

Benefits & Working Conditions

• Overtime available (shift covers and shut‑down work, and additional remedial works).

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