Mobile Facilities Maintenance Engineer

What you’ll be responsible for

We’re looking for a proactive and collaborative Mobile Facilities Maintenance Engineer to help keep our buildings safe, reliable and efficient. You’ll play a key role in maintaining essential systems, supporting projects and ensuring a positive experience for everyone who uses our facilities.

Working with the Head of Facilities Management, you will:

1. Maintain and improve all mechanical and electrical systems across our facilities/asset portfolio
2. Deliver planned and reactive maintenance to keep operations running smoothly
3. Oversee quality checks for new installations and ensure compliance with standards
4. Contribute to risk management and develop practical solutions to recurring issues
5. Provide technical guidance and support to colleagues and contractors
6. Respond promptly to urgent maintenance needs as part of an on-call rota
7. Make cost-effective decisions on repairs, replacements and redesigns
8. Support delivery of projects that meet safety, regulatory and financial goals
9. Promote health and safety and best practice in all activities

Who you’ll work with

Internal

•    Key Stakeholder and property user
•    Health & Safety, Operations, Procurement and Finance teams
•    All levels of management within DCWW
•    Capital Project/Programme Delivery Teams

External

•    Local Authorities including Planning Departments and Highways Departments
•    Framework Suppliers & Partners
•    Regulators NRW/EA/DWI/Ofwat/HSE/UKWIR/Water UK/Consumer Council for Water Wales

About you

Essential Experience, Qualifications and Skills

1. Qualified in Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation Engineering
2. Experience in facilities maintenance or engineering
3. A range of project and people management skills, combined with strong experience in the delivery of maintenance & reliability improvement projects 
4. An ability to think strategically in terms of lifetime costs; identifying a range of possible solutions and presenting a coherent rationale for a recommended action
5. Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplined engineering environment whilst maintaining effective day to day delivery of services
6. The ability to work to tight regulatory and project deadlines

Good to know

• You will work flexibly between designated site locations in the South East region (including Cardiff and Newport) after training completed
• Required to be on call out rota every 4-5 weeks for out of hour emergencies
• Company Transit van will be provided - clean drivers licence required
• In-person interview dates: across 4th & 5th December 2025

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: Michael.Gerlach@dwrcymru.com and enter the Job Requisition Number (8176) in the subject title line.

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. Please apply as soon as you can. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest. 

Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here! 

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.