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# Data Centre M&E Engineer

- **Company:** kpm media ltd
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £47,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Data Centers
- **Published:** August 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.fmj.co.uk/careers/62591/In-House-Technical-Services-Manager-London-City

## About the Role

· Electrical Trade Qualifications (or Degree Qualified).
· Team-first mentality and willingness to learn and develop on the job.
· Engineering mindset and experience with BMS, UPS, STS, LV, HV,HVAC systems.
· Keen interest in developing their technical ability with particular focus on electrical/mechanical controls
· Industrial, data centre, or mission-critical experience
· Experience of liaising with multiple disciplines to drive solutions to complex operational issues within a critical environment.
· 3rd party vendor operational management

This is a fantastic and rare opportunity to work both local to home in the Hampshire area, as well as a Monday-Friday role in a data centre, as opposed to the usual 24/7 shift roles which are usually on offer within the sector. Combined with working for an SME but growing business, which offers a family feel and less corporate layers internally, its a chance for a technically minded and ambitious critical services engineer to develop with a similarly dynamic business.

## Description

Currently they seek a multi-skilled M&E engineer with experience working within and around critical services plant, and based at one of their flagship data centre customers in the Farnborough, Hampshire area. This is a resident-based role, working Monday to Friday, and delivering planned & reactive maintenance to electrical, mechanical and general HVAC/building services systems. Guideline salary for this position is up to £47,000 for the right individual, while the role will also incorporate a call-out rota which equates to circa £5/6k additional payment over the course of the year.

If successful this role will involve;

· Act as the primary engineering subject matter expert for both client and internal teams for site
· Perform planned and reactive engineering work, including daily, weekly proactive tasks, alarm response, fault finding, maintenance, repairs, and modification of equipment relating to, electrical, mechanical systems and equipment
· Supervise all operational and maintenance activities, to ensure work is executed in safe and suitable manner and complies with SLAs
· Be Responsible for technical service delivery governance, including audit, within a common toolset on your site
· Aid TSM, Operational services and sales team in identifying and supporting new sales opportunities., · Assist technical manager in the setting, implementing, and applying existing and new technical standards, policies, and best practice for site
· Customer focused service, being the customers teams go to engineering SME
· High standard of planned preventative and reactive maintenance
· Maintenance of critical electrical and mechanical equipment
· High level understanding of the data centre environment
· Proactive involvement in the on-going technical evaluation of all plant and equipment, suggestion of improvements where appropriate.

Compliance
· Accurate recording and reporting of maintenance activity to ensure CMMS system is correctly updated
· Manage access control and security measures.
· Ensure the fire protection system is active and take necessary actions.
· Maintain and coordinate site records to meet compliance requirements.
· Attend vendor meetings to discuss services and address any issues.

Day to Day
· Perform daily/weekly/monthly checks and site inspections of the building and alarms.
· Coordinate and lead preventative maintenance tasks and vendors, as well as lead repairs and corrective maintenance efforts.
· Collaborate with internal and client team members on major repairs and develop procedures for their execution.
· Coordinate and perform switching activities.
· Maintain workplace safety practices and adhere to approved MOPs
· Ensure incidents are escalated and handled according to protocols.
· Assist with capacity management and provide support to other teams as needed.
· Participate in Out of Hours call out rota for site and any others within contract portfolio
· Other duties, as may be required by Management


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