HMP Millsike - Mechanical Maintenance Operative

HOURS: 40 hours per week

LOCATION: HMP Milllsike, North Yorkshire

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Mechanical Maintenance Operative who will carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance within a 24-hour, 365-day operational site.

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ROLE: Mechanical Maintenance Operative

Role Responsibilities

• Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance, ensuring that SHE standards are maintained and liaising with engineers and subcontractors, with a proactive approach to client liaison.
• Ensure compliance with and enforcement of existing business risk management procedures for maintenance and project works, completing all work-related documentation accurately and on time. Investigate and report in detail on infrastructure shortfalls, problems, and incidents, recommending options for remedial actions.
• Comply with company and statutory regulations relating to safe systems of work, health and safety, hygiene, cleanliness, and localised fire regulation procedures, including participation in weekend working, shift rota patterns, and out-of-hours call-out functions.

Required Qualifications

• Previous relevant experience in providing electrical maintenance services in a large, complex environment.
• Experience of servicing and repairing water booster pumps and associated equipment would be advantageous, or similar.
• Additional training will be given as required.
• Basic to intermediate IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook, with experience in updating records

Preferred Qualification

• Possess one of the following: Apprenticeship or equivalent, IOSH or equivalent, C&G/BTEC Mechanical Building Services Engineering Parts 1, 2 and 3, NVQ Level 3 in multi-skilled engineering, C&G 2079, or C&G 2391/2

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to work within a 24-hour, 365-day operational environment.
• Exposure to complex engineering systems and infrastructure.
• Career development within a structured engineering team
• Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
• We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
• When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
• We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
• We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
• Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
• We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Nikita Srivastava at
• Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
• Join our Mitie Team.
• Together our diversity makes us stronger.

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