This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office 2-3 days a week. You will also be required to be on-call for set weekly rotations and travel to site as required. The office locations we can offer are Milton Keynes, Irlam or Telford. 

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Mechanical & Electrical Engineer

CityFibre installs and operates a large number of Micro-Edge Datacentres (FEX) and Fibre Active Cabinets (FAC) across the UK. As our M&E Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the development and delivery of our colocation, datacentre and FEX/FAC portfolio using skills that include design, vendor management, financial modelling, facility, and project management.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Supporting on architecture design, feasibility, and cost studies
• Implementing the M&E FEX/FAC lifecycle
• Implementing the strategy around monitoring
• Acting as the point of escalation for network issues from tier 3 and engineering
• Managing key vendor relationships

What you’ll bring to the role

You’ll have excellent mechanical and electrical datacentre design and operation experience, as well as the following:

• Strong communication skills
• Good vendor management experience
• 18th Edition Certificate

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!