Your your new company

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is a unitary authority based in the heart of the town centre offering traditional seaside living that makes it a great place to live and work. This diverse and busy town has great public parks and leisure activities, competitive house pricing and excellent travel links, accessible via 2 train lines form Liverpool St and Fenchurch Street. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has gone through some recent changes as they push and drive towards their goals of becoming the best performing M&E team. The M&E manager is very interested in those engineers that have a productive mentality towards work and that strive to complete tasks with their full technical capability.

Your new role

In this role you will focus on commercial mechanical engineering and your day to day activities will cover some design tasks along with producing specifications. A key area of focus will be project management and contract management of the commercial mechanical services. You will handle projects from inception to completion ensuring all deadlines are met along with monitoring the contractors by completing weekly KPI reports and pre/post inspections. You will be responsible for the signing off contractors works, therefore all work completed must meet building regulations and standards.

What you'll need to succeed

You will need a proven track record of mechanical engineering and project/contract management covering similar work which can be from either the client side or a customer facing role. A qualification of a HNC, HND, BEng or HND in the relative field is also required.

What you'll get in return

When you join the council as a Mechanical Engineer you can enjoy a range of benefits including: - flexible working, salary and pension scheme, 23 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) and employee schemes. A full list of benefits provided by Southend Borough Council can be viewed on the "Why Work For Us?" tab.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now on 0207 259 8760 and speak to Chris Simpson. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position with Southend-On-Sea Borough Council, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

The Council is an equal opportunities employer. They welcome applications, regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief. All applications will be considered solely on merit.