Meet the Team

John Heward

John Heward

Managing Director

With over 20 years within the industry, John has established and developed JH Mechanical & Electrical Services into a small business with an excellent reputation in providing clients with exceptional service levels in the repairs and maintenance of their mechanical and electrical services.

Heather Heward

Heather Heward

Finance Director

Heather has over 20 years of experience and a proven track record in strategic business and investment planning in both the public and private sectors and is now instrumental in helping JH Mechanical & Electrical Services plan and implement its plans for growth.

Lindsey Champion

Lindsey Champion

Contracts Manager

Lindsey supports our clients by matching their facilities requirements to our available engineering resources, organising the tasks to provide an efficient service, with the lowest mileage footprint.

Oliver Monck

Oliver Monck

Electrical Team Manager

Ollie joined our team in November 2023 and has been successfully leading the electrical team since then. Ollie has significant experience working and leading on electrical projects in his previous roles. Ollie has worked and led on larger projects, such as a £2.5m electrical project for Leeds City College and as a lead electrician at Leeds Beckett University. With his experience, Ollie is a great addition to our team and invaluable in managing and delivering electrical contracts for our clients.

Chris Walker

Chris Walker

R&M Team Manager

Chris, a qualified Building Service Engineer is our Repair and Maintenance Team Manager. He supports our compliance work for both our commercial and residential clients.

Chris joined the team in 2018 and is a key player in our service provision. As a qualified Gas Safe engineer you will also see him out and about helping our clients with their emergency call outs. 

Jamie Breary

Jamie Breary

Projects Team Manager

Jamie heads up our projects team dealing with those larger tasks such as major boiler replacements, CDM , and installations.

Claire Craven

Claire Craven

Finance Manager

Claire is our qualified accountant and manages our finance and support teams. 

Claire joined us in March 2024. 

Michael Briggs

Michael Briggs

Estimating Manager

Michael is our highly experienced Estimating Manager who has a work history in commercial and domestic construction, time served on the tools and has held senior management roles.

Michael brings experience and skills in purchasing negotiation, value repairs, contract management and overseeing projects from the design concept to completion. Michael’s experience includes commercial, schools, police stations, prisons, fire stations, hospitals, MOD buildings, domestic housing, hotels, and retail properties.

Trevor Smith

Trevor Smith

QHSE Manager

As our Chartered Health & Safety professional Trevor brings a broad set of skills and experience in Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental management. Trevor has a wealth of experience in team management; site operations; project planning; engineering, maintenance management, equipment installation; ultrahigh purity toxic, corrosive, and inert, gas, chemical and water systems.

As a Chartered Fellow of IOSH, Trevor is an active member of the local H&S community.

Our team of technicians are highly motivated and multi skilled, with over 200 years’ collective experience  in electrical compliance, emergency lighting, heating, hot water, legionella management, air conditioning, refrigeration, LEV, oil and gas systems.  We offer all our technicians a comprehensive training programme which ensures a robust core set of skills for each engineer are maintained, as well as specialisms for our most experienced engineers so that our clients have the confidence in getting the most effective and skilled service at all times. Our staff are DBS and BPSS checked as required to suit our clients needs.

Collective qualifications include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • City & Guilds Level 2 Mechanical Engineering Heating & Ventilation Installation
  • City & Guilds Level 3 Mechanical Engineering Rectification of systems (Service & Maintenance)
  • City & Guilds Water System Legionella Risk Assessor
  • City & Guilds Reduced Pressure Zone Valve Testing & Commissioning
  • City & Guilds Water Distribution
  • Water Regulations 1999 (Installation and Use)
  • Unvented Systems
  • City & Guilds level 2 F-gas and ODS regulations
  • City & Guilds in Commercial catering
  • Utilities Skills- Pipe Work Brazing
  • Crimped Pipe Work Preparation and Installation
  • City & Guilds Level 2 & 3 Electrical Engineering
  • City & Guilds Testing and inspection of Electrical Installations
  • City & Guilds Verification of Electrical Installations
  • City & Guilds Wiring Regulations 18th Edition
  • City & Guilds Portable Appliance Testing
  • BAFE 203-4 Emergency Light Systems
  • CITB Site Safety
  • First Aid At Work
  • Asbestos Awareness
  • Working At Heights
  • Manual Handling