Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

The salary for this role is from £27,514 to £35,258 per annum plus £4,000 Recruitment and Retention allowance and an on-call allowance of £3,000 per annum.

The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer role is to support a full and diverse mechanical engineering service within Babraham Institute buildings located on the Babraham Research Campus. This includes attending to boiler plant, air conditioning plant and ancillary services including plumbing work.

The post holder will be responsible for carrying out day to day remedial and PPM tasks to maintain the Institutes operations and compliance for all relevant regulations and legislation. They will work with and assist other disciplines within the maintenance department to maintain a high standard of delivery to BI science, including departmental non-mechanical tasks as requested by BCE Managers.

Applicants must have served an approved mechanical apprenticeship, or Armed Forces equivalent (or equivalent qualification). This post would suit a qualified plant technician, H&V technician or a general fitter with a wide experience of engineering plant. Plumbing experience is desirable as is experience of working on a multi-building site and of working with building management systems, (preferably Trend 963 or IQ Vision).

This role requires the successful candidate to be onsite.

A full job specification and role requirements can be requested from HR and informal enquiries can be addressed to [email protected]

Benefits include:

Free onsite parking and access to electric vehicle charging points

25 days holiday (increasing to 28 after 3 years of service), plus bank holidays and 3 Christmas closure days

Aviva pension scheme (10.5% employer contribution)

Enhanced family leave policies

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Subsidised gym membership for onsite gym and free access to tennis court

Closing date for applications is Tuesday, 20th October 2026.

However, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early depending on the volume of applications received.

The Babraham Institute welcomes applications from all sections of society.

The Babraham Institute holds a silver Athena SWAN award and is committed to promoting and developing a culture of excellence, diversity and mutual respect that supports the Institute’s ambitions and attracts highly motivated and talented people. The Babraham Institute abides by the principles of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme and has a positive approach to employing disabled people.

The Babraham Institute is a life science research institute dedicated to making the fundamental discoveries needed to maintain health and improve wellbeing throughout life.

Our ground-breaking research in human biology sparks the innovative advances which will improve and protect lifelong health.

Our research is split into three programmes: Epigenetics, Signalling, and Immunology, supported by eight scientific facilities.

Babraham Institute, Cambridge, CB22 3AT

Pay: £34,514.00-£42,258.00 per year