Maintenance Engineer – Electrical bias

Closing Date: 20/03/2026

£38,000–£43,000 | Permanent | 37 hrs

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The Babraham Research Campus is considered to be the UK’s leading campus to support early‑stage bioscience enterprises. World class research and business come together to promote innovation and strengthen links between academia and the commercial world. Babraham Research Campus Ltd (BRCL) is the company that manages and develops the Babraham Research Campus, supporting and promoting the regional and UK bioscience ecosystem.

It has responsibility for the administration and commercial development of the site for the benefit of all the tenant companies including the Babraham Institute. The Campus provides emerging and growing biotech companies laboratory and office space together with access to outstanding scientific facilities in an ideal geographical location at the core of the Cambridge cluster. Our aim is to be the most successful bio‑incubator campus in Europe and to support the Cambridge region and the UK bio‑science communities.

We are situated on an attractive 430‑acre parkland estate, seven miles south‑west of Cambridge City Centre. The campus blends modern laboratory facilities with historic buildings in a spacious, beautifully landscaped setting. The campus offers the companies excellent amenities: fully equipped meeting rooms and conferencing facilities, bar, coffee shop and refectory, a sports and social club, gym, tennis court and football pitch.

A large component of the estate grounds including the wood, grass, grazing meadows and park land are opened for both the campus and the wider community to walk through and use.

We are seeking a highly skilled Maintenance Engineer with a bias towards electrical maintenance and as such will be to be responsible for providing (not exhaustively) reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM), diagnosing and resolving issues, installation, testing and commissioning to a high standard, with a focus on energy efficiency and system optimisation. Experience of working with ventilation systems, boilers, chillers, heat pumps, medical gas systems, emergency lighting, electrical testing, fire alarms, UPS and BMS systems would be advantageous.

The role on occasions may include the need to perform tasks outside of the electrical field along with the co‑ordination of small works and the supervision of contractors.

• Investigate and diagnose issues and carry out planned and preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance (RM), condition maintenance (CM), statutory inspections and non‑destructive testing on all electrical systems.
• Ensure that all repairs and installations are compliant with BS7671 wiring regulations.
• Provide support to BMS systems with fault finding and repair on low voltage AC/DC control systems.
• Record time and outcomes on the CAFM system.
• Responsible for other types of maintenance, including mechanical, HVAC and building fabric.
• Ensure that all repairs and installations are completed to suitable standards in line with industrial standards.
• Complete suitable risk assessments and method statements prior to undertaking any work and document in full to ensure safe working practise.
• Participate in an emergency call out service on a rotor basis.
• Liaise with the Helpdesk and external contractors to deliver maintenance across the BRC estate to a suitable standard in accordance with the maintenance schedules.
• Where required supervise, coordinate and manage specialist sub‑contractors.
• Supervise where required safe systems of work, ensuring they are implemented and plant, machinery, services or equipment is suitably isolated.
• Ensure the building operation and maintenance (O&M) manuals are updated to reflect changes to building assets.
• Plan, supervise and co‑ordinate all works to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all building users and ensure there is no impact on the environment.
• When required take meter readings for building utilities consumption.
• Conduct regular inspections of BRC facilities to ensure the condition of building remains at a standard expected by its stakeholders and that assets…