Job Description

Job Title: Mechanical Technician
Location: St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Permanent: Full time: shift pattern is four weeks on, four weeks off
Role ID: SF15170

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Mechanical Technician at our St Kilda site via the Outer Hebrides, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry\'s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Mechanical Technician you\'ll have a role that is out of the ordinary, working as part of an exclusive team on the remote island MoD base in St Kilda and will be responsible for planned maintenance and a number of other operational support needed to keep this micro environment thriving.

Day-to-day, you\'ll be managing your planned maintenance responsibilities which will be predominately working with the generators as well as any other operational needs. Because the Island is remote you will receive a wide variety of training including advanced first aid, specialist vehicle driving and repairs, even helicopter work. Below are some other duties:

• Providing planned and reactive maintenance to support the Ecosystem of the Island and helping local search and rescue and coast guard if they need support.
• Support with Mechanical maintenance for diesel generators, oiled fire Boilers as well as planned work
• Vehicle maintenance/repair as well as driving an Excavator and training on a number of different vehicles and repairs needed to keep the fleet active
• Being able to support on whatever tasks are needed as a Mechanical Technician and engineer and work out of your comfort zone and think on your feet

Essential experience of the Mechanical Technician:

• Experience with facilities engineering and maintenance working on a variety of different equipment areas
• Happy working to a four week on four week off shift pattern and supporting small team you are on site with
• Experience working with generators and repairs needed to keep them running, diesel is preferable

Qualifications for the Mechanical Technician:

• Engineering / Technical qualification: Apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3 Mechanical or equivalent
• Good knowledge and level of competency in other areas of building services
• HNC/ HND OR NVC level 3 OR Time Served within Mechanical Technician based work
• Willingness to learn and be trained in a variety of areas and be based in a remote location

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there\'s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You\'ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you\'ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture .

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You\'ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what\'s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.

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