Data Centre Engineer

As a Engineer within the Property Services Data Centre team, you’ll be required to complete planned and reactive maintenance tasks and will be expected to complete regular scenario testing, to ensure you’re trained and able to respond to site technical issues should they occur. You will be expected to accept on-call duties, alongside High Voltage authorised person duties, which we provide training for. Our Data Centre maintenance team work alongside other Nationwide colleagues and suppliers, including IT stakeholders, within the Data Centre.

This role is primarily based within our Data Centre in Swindon, with travel expenses paid for any work-related travel outside of Swindon.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

A typical day within this job role would involve proactive maintenance duties, and reactive maintenance tasks. You’ll work closely with your fellow maintenance team members and specialist maintenance supply partners, and will help with basic maintenance administration (working with and contributing to health and safety documentation, site escorting of visitors, etc).

Within the first 6 months of your employment, you will be supported to become technically familiarised with our Swindon Data Centre. Once this understanding has been assessed and validated, on-call duties will be incorporated into the job role.

About you

• A minimum of level 3 qualification in a relevant engineering maintenance and /or installation discipline (or equivalent).
• Relevant Building Services Engineering experience e.g. apprentice qualified and a solid background of practical experience as a qualified engineer.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Operating systems and Building Management Systems
• Experience in the maintenance of ‘environmental’ equipment, including HVAC, UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply), generators, fire alarm systems, etc.
• Experience in Critical Engineering activity and working well within a team. Ability to Provide advice as a Technical specialist.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.  

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.  

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.  

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us. 

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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