Resident Maintenance Engineer

📍 Lewis Cubitt Square, King’s Cross, London N1C 4DY
🏢 Pareto FM
🕒 Monday – Friday | 08:00 – 17:00

Pareto FM has an excellent opportunity for a Resident Maintenance Engineer to join our engineering team at a high-profile commercial site in King’s Cross, London.

This role is based at one dedicated site, allowing you to build a strong understanding of the building, its plant and critical systems while working closely with the wider facilities and contract management teams.

You will be responsible for delivering planned and reactive maintenance across mechanical and electrical systems, ensuring the client’s assets are maintained in a safe, efficient and fully operational condition.

The Role

As a Resident Maintenance Engineer, you will play a key role in the day-to-day operation and maintenance of building services systems.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance tasks

• Maintaining and repairing mechanical and electrical plant and associated systems

• Fault finding on building services equipment and responding to system failures

• Responding to BMS alarms and carrying out first-line diagnostics

• Supporting and monitoring specialist subcontractors when attending site

• Ensuring plant rooms and engineering areas remain safe, clean and well maintained

• Maintaining accurate logbooks, compliance documentation and maintenance records

• Updating simPRO work instructions and providing photographic evidence of completed works

• Monitoring building environmental conditions via HVAC plant systems

• Carrying out regular site walk-rounds to ensure systems are operating as intended

• Reporting hazards, plant issues or compliance risks to the Supervisor or Contract Management team

• Supporting plant start-up, shutdown, plant changeover and operational checks

You will also undertake small installation works and assist with repairs as directed by the Contract Supervisor or Management team.

Working Hours

• 08:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday

• Additional overtime outside of these hours may be required, depending on operational needs

• Overtime is not guaranteed

• No on-call rota at this time

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for an experienced engineer who is organised, proactive and able to work both independently and as part of a wider engineering team.

You should be comfortable operating within a busy, business-critical environment and able to respond effectively to reactive maintenance issues.

Key qualities include:

• Strong customer-focused approach

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to prioritise tasks and meet agreed timescales

• A proactive attitude towards health and safety

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills

Qualifications & Technical Experience

Essential

• City & Guilds Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering

• City & Guilds Level 3 (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering

• 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations

• Strong knowledge of Electricity at Work Regulations and safe working practices

Desirable

• City & Guilds 2391 Inspection & Testing

• IOSH Working Safely

• IPAF and PASMA certification

• Unvented hot water systems training

• Experience with BMS, generators, controls, lighting systems and water systems

• Knowledge of ACOP L8 / water treatment systems

• High Voltage systems knowledge or certification

Experience maintaining and fault finding across equipment such as:

• Boiler plant

• Ventilation systems

• Pumps and pressurisation systems

• Generators and switchgear

• Electrical distribution systems

• Small power and lighting systems

Why Join Pareto FM?

• Work at a high-profile commercial site in King’s Cross

• Single-site role – no constant travel between buildings

• Supportive engineering team and experienced contract management

• Opportunity to develop technical skills across a wide range of building systems

• Work within a professional FM organisation delivering high standards for clients

If you are a skilled multi-disciplined Maintenance Engineer who takes pride in maintaining high standards and enjoys working within a technically varied environment, we would love to hear from you.