Mechanical Engineer
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference?This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Estates Department as a Mechanical Engineer.
As a Mechanical Engineer you will provide a comprehensive building services mechanical function and to manage estates capital projects.
What you’ll do
Provide Expert Mechanical Engineering Advice: Offer professional and proactive guidance on mechanical engineering services, conduct condition surveys, and develop maintenance plans to support medium-term financial forecasting.
Stay Informed on Legislation and Best Practices: Maintain comprehensive knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance, and best practices in building services engineering and project management. Act as the authorized/responsible person for mechanical services installations across the estate.
Lead and Manage Projects: Ensure that the organization’s requirements, as specified by service users and stakeholders, are thoroughly captured, rigorously challenged, confirmed by the project owner, and documented.
Contribute to Feasibility Studies: Assist in producing feasibility studies, prepare initial design information, provide advice, and recommend specialist input when necessary.
Design and Documentation: Perform design work for projects and services, prepare drawings, specifications, and other tender documents to clearly convey the scope and content of the works or services.
What you’ll bring
Educational Background: A degree in building services engineering or a related field or alternatively 10 years of experience in building services engineering.
Professional Membership: Membership (or active pursuit of membership) in a relevant professional body.Continuous Professional Development: Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Planning and Organisational Skills: Demonstrated ability to plan and organise effectively to meet objectives.
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Strong analytical skills to identify problems and implement effective solutions.
Team Collaboration: Ability to work within a specialist team, providing relevant advice and guidance as needed.
Contractor and Supplier Management: Proven ability to manage contractors and suppliers to achieve organizational goals.
Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to understand and align with organizational requirements from diverse stakeholders.
Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate requirements and desired outcomes to contractors and service providers.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of an Mechanical Engineer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process.Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.