Engineering Maintenance Recruitment Agency

CAFM stands for Computer-Aided Facilities Management. It is the software platform category that manages maintenance schedules, reactive tickets, compliance records and asset data across buildings. The dominant UK platforms in engineering maintenance are Planon, Concept Evolution, Elogbooks, IBM Maximo, Archibus and FSI Concept. Fluency in one or more is now a screening criterion on most FM contractor mobile and static briefs, not an optional extra.

Three distinct deployment models. Mobile engineers work across multiple sites from a van, delivering PPM and reactive maintenance on FM contractor portfolios. Static (or site-based) engineers are dedicated to a single site, typically corporate estates, NHS trusts, higher education or major retail. Shift engineers work 24/7 rotas in critical environments such as data centres, life sciences, pharmaceutical manufacturing and broadcast. Pay bands, expected competences and career paths are different for each. We screen candidates to the deployment model they actually fit.

F-gas is the UK-retained regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases, with Category I-IV certification required for engineers working on refrigeration and air conditioning systems containing F-gas refrigerants. HV authorisation (Authorised Person, Senior Authorised Person) is the safe-working regime for electrical engineers operating on high-voltage systems above 1,000V, usually site-specific. The 18th Edition BS 7671 Amendment 2 is the current UK Requirements for Electrical Installations, with electricians expected to hold a current 18th Edition qualification. We verify issue and currency on every relevant brief.

ACoP L8 is the Approved Code of Practice for the control of legionella bacteria in water systems, supported by HSG274 guidance. It sets the legal regime for water hygiene on every UK building with a wet system. Water hygiene engineers, legionella risk assessors and any maintenance engineer with water-system scope are expected to be trained to L8 and HSG274 standards. Specialist water hygiene engineers often combine L8 competence with City & Guilds building services engineering qualifications.

HTM stands for Health Technical Memoranda, the technical and operational guidance documents governing NHS estate building services. HTM 03-01 covers ventilation, HTM 04-01 covers hot and cold water safety, HTM 06 covers electrical services, HTM 2015 covers medical gas pipeline systems. NHS trust engineering and FM contractors delivering on NHS estates brief directly to HTM standards, and our desk screens for HTM-aligned experience on healthcare maintenance briefs.

Broad 2026 ranges. Mobile Maintenance Engineer 32 to 48 thousand (plus van, on-call). Static Engineer 32 to 50. Shift Engineer 42 to 65 (critical environments at the upper end, data centres and life sciences commonly 55 to 70 plus shift allowance). Multi-skilled Engineer with HV authorisation 45 to 62. BMS Engineer 40 to 60. Water Hygiene Engineer 32 to 48. Engineering Supervisor 45 to 62. Contract Manager 55 to 80. Head of Engineering 75 to 110. London, M4 corridor and data centre premiums apply. Day rates for contract roles run 200 to 450.

Yes, both. We work across the major UK FM contractors (Mitie, Equans, CBRE, JLL, Sodexo, ISS, Amey and Apleona among them) on general-estate mobile and static hiring, and across the critical environment operator market (hyperscale cloud and colocation) on Tier III and Tier IV data centre shift engineering. Life sciences, pharma manufacturing, hospitals and broadcast critical environments are also briefed separately where technical context differs.

Yes. A meaningful share of our volume sits above the tool-holding engineer layer. Engineering Supervisors, Technical Managers, Account Managers, Contract Managers and Heads of Engineering are all briefed regularly. These roles require different assessment than shop-floor engineering: commercial fluency, P&L exposure, SLA management, CAFM reporting and people management all come into scope.

Yes, across all three. Permanent placements are the majority volume for engineering maintenance. Contract cover is common for project peaks, PPM mobilisations, shift-team stand-up and specialist trades such as BMS commissioning. Interim management placements are used on contract mobilisations, account turnarounds and standing up new operational teams after FM contract wins.

Facilities management (FM) is the broader sector. FM hiring includes soft services (cleaning, catering, security, front-of-house), hard services (the engineering maintenance discipline covered here) and the management, operations and workplace layer above both. Our FM page covers the full sector. This engineering maintenance page focuses specifically on the hands-on hard-services engineering population plus the engineering supervision and technical compliance surrounding it. The two pages cross-link and cover distinct hiring pools.

Yes. BMS engineers (Trend, Tridium, Siemens, Cylon platforms), commissioning engineers (mechanical and electrical), water hygiene engineers (ACoP L8 and HSG274), F-gas refrigeration engineers (Category I-IV), HV-authorised electrical engineers and fire systems engineers all sit within our specialist trade remit. Specialist trade hiring is a distinct pool and typically briefs directly to the operator or specialist subcontractor rather than through the generalist FM channel.