BMS Service & Project Engineer

This is a predominantly service-focused role with genuine variety, for an engineer based around Poole and Bournemouth. You'll look after a couple of key client sites and take on project and upgrade works alongside the service commitment - with a clear route to expand into PLC-based automation work as you grow with us. It's a role with real autonomy and the technical backing of an experienced engineering team.

1.3 What You'll Be Doing

• Delivering planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive service on BMS / controls systems at client sites
• BMS fault-finding across field equipment, cabling, panels and software - on site and via remote diagnostics
• Installing, modifying and loading system software
• Supporting upgrade and project works, including pre-commissioning checks and client handover
• Participating in the on-call rota, responding to client faults
• Opportunity to develop into PLC-based automation projects across our sectors
• Collaborating with the wider engineering team on UK-wide service contracts

1.4 The Variety On Offer

Because we're a multi-discipline integrator, you won't be doing the same thing every week. Our work spans BMS, smoke control and PLC automation, across sectors including NHS/healthcare, pharmaceutical and clean-room, infrastructure, Formula 1 (wind tunnels and test cells) and commercial buildings.

• A background in BMS / controls service and maintenance engineering (or equivalent qualification)
• Hands-on experience with BMS/controls platforms - Tridium/Niagara, Siemens, Honeywell, Trend or similar
• PLC knowledge would be beneficial (and there's scope to grow this side of the role)
• Computer literate, with the ability to work independently and manage your own diary
• A full UK driving licence (essential), and evidence of the Right To Work In The UK
• A practical, customer-focused approach and a genuine passion for building controls

Looking to move across?

We'll also consider strong controls engineers from adjacent fields (e.g. industrial or process/PLC controls) who want to move into BMS - we invest in training, including Niagara and NVQ L4 BMS qualifications., * Demonstrable BMS/controls service & maintenance experience (fault-finding across hardware, panels and software)

• Able to run PPM and reactive service visits independently and support project/upgrade works
• Full UK driving licence and right to work in the UK
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, commutable distance of Poole / Bournemouth
• Comfortable on the on-call rota; good communication and client-facing manner

2.2 Desirable

• Tridium/Niagara experience or certification (N4); exposure to Siemens / Honeywell / Trend / Beckhoff
• PLC programming knowledge (with appetite to grow into PLC automation projects)
• Smoke control experience; experience of critical / regulated environments (NHS, pharma, clean-room)
• Electrical qualification / 18th Edition, and relevant site tickets (CSCS, IPAF, asbestos awareness)

Pulled from the full job description Employee mentoring programme Life insurance Company car Company pension Private medical insurance, * Competitive salary, £45,000+ depending on experience, plus annual bonus

• Company vehicle or monthly car allowance, with travel expenses covered
• Contributory pension (5% company contribution)
• Life assurance (4× annual salary)
• Free BUPA private medical insurance
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Individual development plan and funded training - including NVQ L4 BMS qualifications
• Varied, genuinely interesting work with the autonomy of a regional role, * Company pension
• Employee mentoring programme
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance

Kernow Controls is an established building controls engineering company founded in 2010. As a Tridium, Siemens, Honeywell and Beckhoff integrator, we design, deliver and maintain BMS, smoke control and PLC automation systems across an unusually varied client base - NHS and healthcare, pharmaceutical and clean-room environments, infrastructure, Formula 1 (wind tunnels and test cells) and commercial buildings, to name a few. Our portfolio includes BMS design for Heathrow Terminal 2A (including a 50MW cooling-station control system) and Crossrail. We're built on a simple principle: be the best in our field and deliver what we promise, creating safer, healthier buildings and happier users by making complex systems simple to control.