Domest & Commercial Electrical Installation Engineer
JMC Electrical
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
Responsibilities and Achievements:
Designed, implemented, maintained, and improved electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic applications.
Utilized engineering software and equipment for computer-aided design tasks, including AutoCAD.
Established and enforced construction, manufacturing, and installation standards.
Conducted feasibility studies for industrial, domestic, and commercial technical developments.
Oversaw maintenance, inspection, and system upgrade programs.
Calculated project costs and delivery timelines.
Provided quality assurance for ongoing projects.
Collaborated with clients and other professionals, wrote reports, gave presentations, and met with clients and management.
Skills:
Proficient in AutoCAD and other engineering software.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Ability to work in a team and lead projects.
Direct oversight of Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) services within CA-CIB premises, ensuring alignment with the Master Services Agreement (MSA) and operational excellence across critical infrastructures, including trading environments and data centres.
Facilitate the selection process for external M&E contractors, collaborating closely with M&E consultants to ensure competitive tendering processes are thorough, transparent, and yield high-quality service providers.
Implement advanced building management systems (BMS) for enhanced operational control and monitoring. This will improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and align with sustainability goals.
Oversee contractor performance management, utilising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and regular reviews to ensure adherence to service level agreements (SLAs), optimising maintenance routines, and ensuring the reliability of critical building systems.
Manage financial aspects of M&E services, including budgeting, capex and opex oversight, invoice processing, and economic justification for technology enhancements or infrastructure investments.
Ensure comprehensive compliance with health, safety, and environmental legislation, fostering a culture of safety and risk mitigation across all operations.
Drive continuous improvement in building services and operations by leveraging data analytics, predictive maintenance, and energy management strategies to achieve operational efficiencies and cost savings.
Act as the principal liaison between internal stakeholders, external contractors, and consultants, ensuring seamless communication and alignment on project objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
Successfully oversaw the delivery of facilities management services across a diverse multi-occupied portfolio, ensuring operational excellence and high tenant satisfaction.
Directly manage and evaluate on-site supplier performance, including reception, security, cleaning, and maintenance, to ensure seamless service delivery.
Spearhead Health & Safety compliance initiatives, conducting weekly building inspections and maintaining meticulous records using Site Audit Pro to enhance safety standards.
Generate and present detailed Monthly Operational and Health & Safety reports, contributing to strategic planning and continuous improvement efforts.
Coordinate with the Facilities Director to develop and manage service charge budgets for each property, optimising costs while maintaining service quality.
Led the tendering process for small project works, ensuring competitive pricing and quality execution for projects over £5k.
Implement efficient processes for daily access permits, risk assessments, and hot work permits, strengthening building security and safety protocols.
Conduct regular supplier, contractor, and tenant meetings to foster solid relationships and address concerns promptly, improving overall service satisfaction.
Act as a primary contact for out-of-hours emergency callouts and assist with planned fire evacuations, demonstrating high responsibility and readiness.
Administer the procurement process, including raising and signing off purchase orders and invoices, ensuring fiscal discipline and transparency.
Maintaining up-to-date emergency contact information for teams and tenants enhances response efficiency during critical incidents.
Key Achievements:
Enhanced tenant satisfaction through proactive management of building helpdesks, ensuring all jobs are actioned and completed promptly.
We have delivered cost savings and improved service delivery through meticulous budget management and strategic supplier negotiations.
It improved property safety and compliance ratings through diligent oversight and enhancements in Health & Safety practices.
Skills:
General Skills: Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, and a proactive approach in managing facilities services to uphold and enhance the company's reputation.
Interpersonal Skills: Excelled in verbal and written communication, teamwork, and customer care, ensuring the highest standards of service and responsiveness.
Professional Development: Pursuing IOSH qualification and continuous learning to stay abreast of industry standards and best practices.
Compile, attend and support meetings as the Client and Contracts Manager requires.
Prepare and submit concise written reports about emergency incidents promptly.
Support the Client with fit-outs/projects as required.
Maintain a list of remedial works required, ensuring that they are undertaken in a timely and workmanlike manner.
Ensure weekly site inspections of all plant rooms and areas managed by suppliers to maintain high Housekeeping standards. Record all findings and generate reactive works based on faults found.
Act as the person responsible for coordinating all site-based engineering works.
Initiate, create and control the consumable and critical list and materials for the site.
Financial control for the site about Quotations and WIP.
Responsible for staffing levels on site and arranging the cover required in the event of absences (planned and unplanned).
Manage the system for additional works and purchase orders, assuming responsibility for all purchases, other works quotations, and the weekly submission of outstanding sales to head office.
Manage and coordinate additional works, including project costing, method and risk assessment approval, and supervision of specialist subcontractors.
Overall sub-contractor management, access, permitting, works completion and control and filing of service reports.
Working within a five-person day team
Manage PPMs and reactive vis concept.
Compiled and attended weekly and monthly meetings to discuss financials, contractors, staffing and extra work.
Planning PPM calendar and contractors regarding all PPM visits and Callouts, raising jobs to keep control of Financial costs and raising Quotes on a live web-based system where the client can track all finances and spending.
Managing engineers match the correct skill levels to jobs and workloads.
Managing KPIs and SLAs to contract. Going above and beyond to achieve and exceed expectations, learning contract management about Logbook 6. Which was contract management reference and referring to the O&Ms for contractual obligations
Responsible for the upkeep of
• H&S
• compliance folders for the site.
• I am responsible for HVAP duties during day-to-day running.
• Managed statutory compliance testing.
• Managed and controlled sub-contractor service report sheets (cost, remedial and reporting)
• Managed all contractors (PTWs and site inductions)
• Sourced required spares and managed labour requirement
• Managed holiday and sickness cover where required, including agency negotiation.
• Controlled Compliance and H&S audits.
I initially worked with a five-person day team and a two-person night team.
Where I held the responsibilities for managing the PPM system (Allocating tasks) to other engineers,
Held responsibility for LV switching during day-to-day running and on duties. Reactive tasks within the day-to-day running of the site, under the BMS control (Chartwells), lighting control (Simmtronic), head-end control, repairs and installation, the automated emergency lighting system (Simmtronic), repairs and additional installation.
As part of our duties, we undertook the weekly and monthly statutory testing of sprinklers, generators, and emergency lighting, reporting any defects or required remedial action to management.
I controlled and filed subcontractor service report sheets, again reporting any remedial works to management for action where there were financial implications.
She managed the permit-to-work system for all subcontractors attending the site, including reviewing RAMS, site inductions, and opening/closing the relevant permit to work.
These were, in turn, filed within the H&S folders in such an order to allow for the monthly compliance reports to be collated and issued quickly.
I sourced all spare parts required for reactive and extra work. I managed the labour requirements for these works and holiday/sickness cover, predominantly covered with site labour and only occasionally via agency-sourced engineers.
Undertook and controlled the periodic Compliance and H&S audits completed on-site (In-house H&S officers) and performed any remedial requirements.
PPM duties included all large building tasks: AHUs, Generators, Chillers, FCUs (periodic servicing and reporting), Sump pumps, general and emergency lighting, and small power works.
Reactive duties encompassed all areas within the building, including various tenanted floors, lighting, hot and cold calls, water leaks, and any general enquiries.
While at Hammersmith Hospital, I undertook several project evaluations for relocating an HV ring and transformers.
I have worked heavily with steam repairing and replacing pipework and isolation valves and have a heavy involvement in all mechanical engineering. I worked with an eight-man day team and a two-person night team. Where I held the responsibilities for managing my PPM system, as an engineer, I was responsible for managing and updating the com H&S/compliance folders for the site. I had responsibility for LV switching during day-to-day running and on-callout duties. Reactive tasks within the day-to-day running of the site, under the BMS control (ACL), lighting control (Simmtronics), head-end control, repairs and installation, the automated emergency lighting system (P4), repairs and additional installation.
We undertook the weekly and monthly statutory testing, Fire alarm, PAVA, and emergency lighting as part of our duties, reporting any defects or required remedial to management.
I controlled and filed subcontractor service report sheets, again reporting any remedial works to management for action where there were financial implications.
PPM duties included all large building tasks: AHUs, Generators, Chillers, FCU (periodic servicing and reporting), L8 weekly and monthly testing and recording these to the water treatment logbooks), Sump pumps, general and emergency lighting, small power, and annual shutdown-related works.
Reactive duties encompassed all areas within the building, including various wards, lighting, hot and cold calls, water leaks, and general enquiries.
While at the hospital, I had to learn a different approach to compliance with hospital logbooks. With this, it opened up a lot of several avenues of research and self-development
I initially worked within a four-person day team and was promoted to a shift engineer role within a year. I was responsible for managing the PPM system (Allocating tasks) to other engineers and solely for managing and updating the comprehensive H&S/compliance folders for the site. Held responsibility for LV switching during day-to-day running and on-callout duties. Reactive tasks within the day-to-day running of the site, under the BMS control (Schneider), lighting control (Dalmatics), head-end control, repairs and installation, the automated emergency lighting system (P4), repairs and additional installation.
As part of our duties, we undertook the weekly and monthly statutory testing of sprinklers, Fire alarms, PAVAs, and emergency lighting, reporting any defects or required remedial action to management.
I controlled and filed subcontractor service report sheets, again reporting any remedial works to management for action where there were financial implications—I managed the Permit system for all sub-contractors attending the site, inclusive of reviewing RAMS, site inductions and opening/closing the relevant permit to work.
These were, in turn, filed within the H&S folders in such an order to allow for the monthly compliance reports to be collated and issued quickly.
I sourced all spare parts required for reactive and extra work. I managed the labour requirements for these works and holiday/sickness cover, predominantly covered with site labour and only occasionally via agency-sourced engineers.
Undertook and controlled the periodic Compliance and H&S audits completed on-site (In-house H&S officers) and performed any remedial requirements.
PPM duties included all large building tasks: AHUs, Generators, Chillers, FCU (periodic servicing and reporting), L8 weekly and monthly testing and recording these to the water treatment logbooks), Sump pumps, general and emergency lighting, small power and annual shutdown-related works.
Reactive duties encompassed all areas within the building, including various tenanted floors, lighting, hot and cold calls, water leaks, and any general enquiries.
Since starting my current role in March, my responsibilities have increased from being an engineer to managing 338 and 350 Euston Roads and the estate.
My roles and responsibilities included managing contractors for PPM visits for the landlord’s demise, collecting and distributing PPMs to my staff, and arranging contractors for callouts.
Managing all the stature paperwork such as sprinkler tests, emergency lighting records, and smoke vent records, as well as all the water treatment logbooks and the access logbooks
My day-to-day role now consists of managing a team of engineers across the two buildings and the estate, ensuring that all PPMs meet the expectations of Broadgate, all statutory paperwork is up to date, and all records are maintained.
The two buildings I maintain have high-profile clients such as Hachette, Balfour Beatty, BT, Capital One, GMC General Medical Council, and Broadgate Estates.
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